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At first I thought 5 seconds was a long amount of time, and then I loaded my company's website and noticed it really does take 5 seconds to load. It's a self-
by koheripbal 6y ago
At first I thought 5 seconds was a long amount of time, and then I loaded my company's website and noticed it really does take 5 seconds to load. It's a self-hosted Wordpress site on the GB business internet in our office.
How can I possibly compete with AMP? I notice that even Reddit.com takes about 3 seconds to load. cnn.com, 2 seconds
- snazz 6y agoMaking WordPress fast requires some pretty serious caching effort, in my experience. Your internet connection might not be quite up to snuff for server hosting either, although you can test that with ping and checking the time to first byte. Also, Reddit isn't exactly fast—it takes six seconds to load for me. Wikipedia and HN are better examples. If you want the very lowest bound possible on latency for your internet connection, try loading https://cloudflare.com/cdn-cgi/trace https://cloudflare.com/cdn-cgi/trace. That should load in milliseconds. From there, you can do a little more profiling work on your site.
- ryandrake 6y agoThere are plugins that help automate the easy stuff and provide lots of bang for the buck. I took a day a while back and got my local gaming league’s Wordpress site down from something like 6.5 seconds to 0.99 seconds by switching hosts, removing heavy plugins, compressing images, and lots of caching. Totally doable if you are mostly static content (which should be all news sites).
- ramses0 6y agoAhhh, ye olde yslow... http://yslow.org http://yslow.org
- criddell 6y agoDo you know why your site is so slow?
- vorpalhex 6y ago1. Static rendering 2. Use a CDN and size images appropriately 3. Avoid JS as much as possible, use it only for enhancements