WP home page takes 1.49s to load. Would straight HTML be faster/better?

The reason I ask is because I'm addicted to speed and lowering the time it takes to load.

Right now, there is nothing on the home page that really uses any WordPress functionality. No widgets or 'recent posts' or anything. It's basically a landing page with a slider, content, footer, links to log in, register, and share. The WordPress theme also offers an alternate straight HTML version (I'd have to buy again) as well which makes me wonder.

I do plan on adding the blog page soon, and I am running things like All-in-One SEO and Google Sitemaps and the basic good stuff... So I don't want to lose all that functionality, but I'm wondering if I should instead have the front page HTML, and the blog on xxx.com/blog be WordPress.

Would that be better? Would that cause any issues or problems or difficulty having them 'disconnected' like that?

Or would the performance increase be marginal and not worth the effort? Which it would be, I'm very much a newbie so it would take me several days when I could be doing something else with my ready to go landing page already.

Thanks so much for any advice!

 

1.49 doesn't seems a very bad loading time for me.

 

That is ok, but if you want to make it faster maybe you should think about changing your host

 

If you have trouble with your WordPress pages loading slow, I would highly suggest upgrading your WordPress. The newest version includes WP-Super cache, which does a great job caching pages so they load much quicker. We have been using WordPress with NO problems with page loads using a Caching system.

Also, if your page is loading slowly, perhaps it's your template causing it to load slowly?

 

I am running the current version of WordPress.

Do you feel that 1.49 is slow?

I am using Namecheap for hosting and am hooking up Cloudflare as well.

 

Honestly, 1.5 seconds isn't really bad, but it could have to do with more than just wordpress. I doubt you'd loose visitors with that load speed. I think ours is 2-3 seconds and I don't think that's slow, but we have a lot going on with our site as far as wordpress goes.

 

Thanks.

Yeah it's weird. I'm always tweaking my cars for speed, used to drag race all the time... Cheapest way to go fast? Take off the unnecessary parts. Amazing how that translates over to programming and SEO and the like...

 

Thanks.

Yeah it's weird. I'm always tweaking my cars for speed, used to drag race all the time... Cheapest way to go fast? Take off the unnecessary parts. Amazing how that translates over to programming and SEO and the like...

 

Use upgraded version of Word Press if you feel that your website loading time is much. However 1.49 secs doesn't seem too slow for me.

 

I am using Namecheap too

 

1. 49 seconds is blazing fast for most content management systems. If we can get an average of 3-4 seconds, we are happy. We use DotNetNuke. Some sites are fast, some are slower. We have great servers hosted at PowerDNN.

 

How topographically far are you from your host? If it's a thousand miles or more, that's a large part of your "loading" speed, and nothing you can do (other than moving) can change that. (You may have 25mbps from you to your provider, but your provider probably has about 700kbps to your host if the distance is great enough.) Have someone in the same city as your host check your load speed.

That said, the change from a proper installation of WP to pure HTML (no JS libraries, CSS files, etc.) would give you a negligible speedup if you have a decent host - maybe that half second. The internet latency will mask just about any speedup you'll get, though.