How to reduce the page load time?

Hi

How can reduce my websites page load time?

I'm using gzip, wp-minify but still the site takes a lot of time to load.
The site is hosted in a dedicated ip server.

Thanks,
logesh

 

Do you have a Url for the site in question? Kind of hard to diagnose a problem without seeing it.

 

the site url is http://newinformations.com/

 

From my end, that website seems pretty responsive and quick. Don't know what more to tell you.

 

I am not expert but to reduce load time on my sites I learn many new things and here are my advices.

1. Remove the "Email Subscription Form" from your sidebar, this takes lots of time to load. Use RSS feed icon instead and link it to your feed URL.

2. Remove the "Facebook" box from sidebar, it also takes time to load.

And yes, I can feel the site is not loading fast. Using Dedicated IP does not have anything to do with the site speed.

You are using wordpress? If yes then don't use too many plugins.

 

You can use mod_cache Apache module or put images on a CDN.

 

Infolinks script take a while to load for me, other than that, it loads ok.

Also use cache plugin will help.

 

Say what? Anything better than a shared hosting plan will improve speed with WordPress.

Here is another stat. The server is in Provo, Utah which is half-way around the world from you guys. A whole host of factors could be causing delays from there to you, including your ISP.

You can tweak your .htaccess to cache images, yes. But why pay out extra money to serve images off a CDN when there is no traffic to the site to warrant it?

jahangir and kimi both mentioned dropping features via external scripts, Facebook and InfoLinks. This is best advice I can see at this moment. Especially dropping that Facebook widget -- your visitors did not come there to look a bunch of avatars that don't interest them. My vote is dump it.

 

The site loads quite fast for me. I am not kept on hold for the subscription boxes or facebook friends box to be displayed.

All is good on my side.

 

W3 Super Cache is a good WP plugin for increasing load times. Check it out.

 

A dedicated IP and a dedicated server are not the same things. There is no such thing as a "dedicated IP server". Which is it?

 

You definitely need a caching module. WP Super Cache is a good choice. It reduces page load time significantly.

 

This is what YSlow (a Firefox add-on for measuring performance etc) has recommended for your site. Some of this will be useful, some may not...

Overall Grade: B (Ruleset applied: Small Site or Blog)

Make fewer HTTP requests
This page has 22 external Javascript scripts. Try combining them into one.
This page has 3 external stylesheets. Try combining them into one.
This page has 16 external background images. Try combining them with CSS sprites.
Avoid empty src or href
Compress components with gzip
There are 2 plain text components that should be sent compressed

* http://newinformations.com/
* http://rt42.infolinks.com/action/doq.htm?...

Put CSS at top
Put JavaScript at bottom
There are 3 JavaScript scripts found in the head of the document

* http://newinformations.com/.../?...
* http://cdn.topsy.com/topsy.js?...
* http://resources.infolinks.com/js/infolinks_main.js

Avoid CSS expressions
Reduce DNS lookups
The components are split over more than 4 domains

* newinformations.com
* www.google-analytics.com
* cdn.topsy.com
* resources.infolinks.com
* router.infolinks.com
* rt42.infolinks.com
* www.google.com
* pagead2.googlesyndication.com
* googleads.g.doubleclick.net
* track4.mybloglog.com
* 1.gravatar.com
* 0.gravatar.com
* stats.topofblogs.com
* www.facebook.com
* b.static.ak.fbcdn.net
* static.ak.fbcdn.net
* profile.ak.fbcdn.net

Minify JavaScript and CSS
Avoid URL redirects
Remove duplicate JavaScript and CSS
Reduce the number of DOM elements
Avoid HTTP 404 (Not Found) error
Avoid AlphaImageLoader filter
Do not scale images in HTML
There is 1 image that is scaled down

* http://profile.ak.fbcdn.net/.../41565_111171248931368_7093_q.jpg

Make favicon small and cacheable

 

No wonder that FB widget is slow. Look at how many domains they use for just that one widget. Another reason to dump it.

You can ditch the tracking scripts for MyBlogLog and TopOfBlogs. They are not worth it (GA is all you need).

Screw Topsy, they are gonna rape your site for content anyway.

And I don't know what InfoLinks is ... but it probably ain't any value either.

Still, as mentioned before. The site is pretty responsive from where I am sitting.

 

If you are using wordpress for your website then try to reduce No. of plugins for additional fuctional it takes too much time to load .

 

I suggest using w3 super cache. It will reduce load time drastically.

 

You can reduce the page load time in following ways:-
1. Use repeatable bg. rather then image.
2. Use optmum quality images.
3. Dont have extra files in you folder.
I think it would be effective o do that.

 

The one best way to reduce your page loading time is by using cache plugins. There are number of great caching plugins to use in wordpress.

1. HyperCache
2. W3Total Cache
3. SuperCache
4. etc. you can do a search for wp cache plugins.

PS: the cache plugins basically caches your pages or DB on your server the first time your website is loaded and reuses the cache for following users, this way a lot of loading time is saved.

hope this helped
Cheers
Josh