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seahawks
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« on: May 08, 2014, 07:18:06 PM »

Just wondering if there is any reason why http://hogesweb.com pages (Cleanout Theme) are loading so slowly.  I have the W3 Total Cache plugin activated which made a minor improvement.  Pages are taking 17 seconds to load.  Are there any suggestions you can make  to speed this up?  I have run GT MEtrix over the site, the main culprits according to the report is "browser caching"  and "javascript parsing" .

The site we have using the Metro Shows theme is loading pages faster, but gets a worse GT Metrix score - not sure why this is either.

Any help you  can give would be greatly appreciated.  Many thanks
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« Reply #1 on: May 09, 2014, 06:44:53 AM »

According to the test I was able to run, the main culprit is the site trying to load "http://hogesweb.com/images/videopopup.jpg" which apparently doesn't exist.

The fact that WP redirects dead URLs to a generated search page means that a link to any file that doesn't exist makes the site have to load a second time in the background, and if that dead URL is on the background-loaded search page, it has to load it again, and again, until it gives up.

Because of the fact that the site is being loaded in the background at least 1 additional time, that also means all the javascript is being referenced a second time as well, which is probably why your ratings said JS was a big problem.

The image that is failing to load is under the "Hoges Web Portfolio" widget in Bottom Row 1.1.
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« Reply #2 on: May 12, 2014, 07:47:06 AM »

Many thanks for your help.  I have removed the offending non-existent image and there is a considerable improvement.  Thanks again.  Cheers Jean
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