One of the sites I help out with: www.lasnark.com has been loading really slowly for about a week or so. I got rid of the quantcast, amazon, adbrite, and some other javascript, but had to leave analytics, adsense, and that cbs network. I just installed wp-supercache yesterday and that doesn't seem to be helping.. I don't think it's the images because even a single post page takes forever to load. Also, the back end is really slow too, any ideas what it could be?
I guess its the problem with the host. The request took me some time but once the "Waiting" status is over, everything appears quite fast. Scrolling through your blog, I don't find anything that will cause it to slow down. In fact, I would agree that you have little to none elements that will seriously cause a site to slow down.
Yeah, that's pretty slow. I would say your ads, but i have waaaayy more loading on my blog, and it's not that slow. Multiple, (and I mean many) sites on the same IP will also do that. Go Daddy is notorious for that. Repair or Optimize SQL data base, and make sure all is "O.K.", if that doesn't do it. Go through the plug ins one by one, and see it that helps. I have probably 12 plug ins running, and the one that seems the most innocent was slowing my load time down to a crawl.
Here's what GoDaddy says: ------------ Thank you for contacting online support. I apologize if you have never received the response to when you called. But we have manually ran an external FTP test to your hosting account which appears to be connecting without any issues. As well, the site appears to be loading fine. We cannot find any latency issues related to the server. I would recommend viewing your site through another connection to the internet to see if this resolves the issue. Please let us know if we can help you in any other way. ------- Should I just get new hosting? This is ridiculous.
Well...no. You don't want to jump the gun, if it's not Go Daddy's fault. You need to check out any scripts, plug ins, images, widgets, and any other add ons that may be causing you harm. Just think back to when you started noticing the problem, and think about any little thing, or change that you made just before or during that time.
On a T1 1.44Mbps line, the homepage takes over 8 seconds to download. On that page there are 32 Http requests for images, html, css, scripts, etc. with a total page size of 425K --- whew quite large. Plus over normal requests. The biggest page load are your images. The header image alone is 140K. There are another 190K of images on that page. This is your biggest deficit for speed that I can see. I would look for ways to seriously optimize those images and/or slash some of the other images on posts excerpts (just use an image for a Featured Article, for instance). While we are on images, don't use external sources for your images. One in particular, is the Flickr hosted image (58K) for the ElChollo cafe. This puts you at the mercy of the Flickr servers ... and if they hiccup, you hiccup. Optimize the image and upload to your own post. Try commenting out the external javascript calls to Feedburner, which does some type of tracking. At least on the homepage. There is one call for every post you have listed. I think the script is supposed to track individual post page views, right now, they are registering a hit for every view of the Home Page. Plus you should gain speed without these external calls. Remove permenantly, the Extreme Tracker script. They are worthless. You have Google Analytics and have no need for Extreme. Should pick up some speed there. If I remember right, their servers are in Europe somewhere. You have two javascript calls from some plugin you installed. Both scripts do not exist and return 404. The references are: http://www.lasnark.com/wp-content/plugins/ga-extra-se/track-imagesearch.js http://www.lasnark.com/wp-content/plugins/ga-extra-se/custom_se.js Fix the plugin or remove the references in your theme template. Try disabling if possible. Ummm .... I think that is about all I can see from here!
After another review, you have your Google Analytics setup incorrectly. For some reason, there is a theme widget that slaps the Google code all over the place. One for each post excerpt and one at the beginning of the page. Normally, this code is installed at the end of the page right before the closing /BODY tag. That way the call is made last and will not delay your page load as much. You seriously need to hand-code this into your footer.php theme template and remove the other references. See your GA Dashboard for coding instructions and the code to cut/paste there.