Greetings! I have a problem with my Wordpress blogs. I have installed the Ecwid Shopping Cart plugin and this has slowed down the loading of my website. Can anybody advise me how to speed up the load time? Is there a special plugin for speeding up the load time? Any advice will be gratefully received. Thanks.
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Go to Gtmetrix.com, Analyze your slow loading pages and get the suggestions. Install a Cache plugin like W3 Total Cache or Super Cache. Configuration part of the cache plugins are very important, otherwise it will not give the desired result.
Thanks a lot for your advice. I checked out this site Gtmetrix.com, but I didn't understand all the technical terms. I know a bit of html but I don't know anything about programming etc. As for configuring the W3 Total Cache plugin. I have installed the W3 Total Cache plugin and my website still loads too slowly. What exactly do I have to configure? Could you give me a list of configurations or online resources explaining how to configure this plugin? Thanks.
Thanks a lot for taking the time to give me these detailed instructions. I've bookmarked you important advice. I wasn't aware of the fact that specifying the dimensions of an image (width and length) helps load that image faster. Indeed when I learned html, I couldn't understand why it was necessary to add the dimensions of an image.
That's actually horrible advice. What I would do if I were you is host all of your images on a website like FLICKR. That way you have their huge servers serving up the huge documents. Do the same thing your videos if you have any. On top of that install the Super Cache plugin on your blog. That should speed up your blog by quite a bit. Other than that get a bigger server.
Thanks for your advice. As I already have stated above, I've installed W3 Total Cache plugin. I'm now trying to configure it – but I don't really understand it and would be grateful for any help. I attempted to install the Wordpress Super Cache plugin and I got these error messages saying that the two plugins are incompatible, so I deleted it. Thank God, it's working fine now and the speed of my page load is greatly improved. Thanks everyone for your advice!