HELP! - Optimizing website speed.

[-Alex-]

I own iappleshare.com and have been noticing some loading delays and problems. I made sure with my hosting provider that my hosting was not the root of the issue. I got a great automized report from a website which said my main problem was this:

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TOTAL_OBJECTS - Warning! The total number of objects on this page is 76 which by their number will dominate web page delay. Consider reducing this to a more reasonable number. Above 20 objects per page the overhead from dealing with the actual objects (description time and wait time) accounts for more than 80% of whole page latency. See Figure II-3: Relative distribution of latency components showing that object overhead dominates web page latency in Website Optimization Secrets for more details on how object overhead dominates web page latency. Combine, refine, and optimize your external objects. Replace graphic rollovers with CSS rollovers to speed display and minimize HTTP requests. Consider using CSS sprites to help consolidate decorative images. Using CSS techniques such as colored backgrounds, borders, or spacing instead of graphic techniques can reduce HTTP requests. Replace graphic text headers with CSS text headers to further reduce HTTP requests. Finally, consider optimizing parallel downloads by using different hostnames or a CDN to reduce object overhead.

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There were a few other problems it stated but it said that the above is the biggest and has the greatest impact. I don't really know how to fix it though, help is greatly appreciated.

- Alex -

 

[Keral_Patel]

Yes I checked your site it is taking ages for me to load it.

What you can do is user server side compression to make website faster.

Also you can do small tweaks like break images into smaller pieces and then show them and also you might want to optimize image sizes. Some images I am seeing in those blog posts have really much bigger file size then it should have. EX: http://images.crackberry.com/files/u24272/aroundspe2.png 78.02 KB

Try this http://tools.dynamicdrive.com/imageoptimizer/index.php to optimize your images.

 

[-Alex-]

Ok, thanks. +rep.

Though, could you explain the "server side compression"?

And as for the images, ill work on that optimizer. Although it will be a hassle seeing that it's an automated blog
- But I think there is a greater problem than the amount/size of images, because even if you open up any seperate url blog post (even without an image), it will still take a while to load.

Thanks a bunch though! (have any idea as to how to "reduce the total number of objects" on my page? [from my first post])

- Alex

 

[Keral_Patel]

Yes total number of objects are images scripts etc.

But as this images are in blog posts they cannot be defined from CSS.

So only way is to use less images Maybe change the theme of blog to more minimalist type of theme can reduce some objects.

 

[-Alex-]

Completely solved it with your pm and a wordpress optimizer plugin. Thanks a bunch.

-Alex