Yesterday I checked the Google Analytics for my site and saw that the average page load time is approaching 8 seconds! that is way too much time (almost double what most people are willing to wait for a site to load, which is about 4 seconds). For all of you who have suffered, I’m really sorry.
My site is hosted in a very low-cost hosting service and uses WordPress, with a number of plugins, add-ins, and widgets. For starters, I’m removing all unnecessary items from my site (yes, EVERYTHING) to see how things improve. If you are missing something, please do tell me by leaving a comment. And if you have any ideas that can help make my site faster, do tell me also.
here’s my breakdown:
http://i.imgur.com/eFaBiEf.png
seems straightforward: your hosting sucks, with 5.65 seconds to start giving me that 30kb – I would guess it’s the time apache/php takes to generate the page, might be mysql. best guess would be disk access.
jquery costs almost a second, and jetpack roughly the same.
have you tried some performance analysis at the server?
Not much I can do on the server side. Any recommendations for a good hosting service?
How about AWS for complete control, flexibility and scalability?
Try out the free usage tier for 12 months, then decide 🙂