Post edited 5:33 am – September 5, 2010 by BartC

Hi Jeremy,

My site loads very slow. This holds true no matter what type of connection I use. So I think the problem is with the site itself. I had a tech from the host outfit look and his response was:

"When I researched your website's source code, I found that it was making calls to no fewer than 3 external .CSS file and no fewer than 8 external .JS files. This causes latency opening the site because the browser must download and process all 14 of those files before it even begins to render your site. In order to allow your site run more quickly you'll want to combine those into one Cascading Style Sheet and one external Javascript."

First I'm not sure his analysis is correct, and second if true, I'm not sure how to fix it.

The Front Burner

Any ideas?

WP v3.0.1; Techozoic v1.8.7

bc

Thanks Jeremy,
I installed W3 Total Cache. And I enabled all options except dbug and file locking.

It throws up and error that reads:
"Content Delivery Network Error: The "Replace default hostname with" field must be populated. Enter the hostname of your CDN provider. This is the hostname you would enter into your address bar in order to view objects in your browser."

I'm not sure where this field (Replace default hostname with) lives. (And, if it located, it is not clear what I would put in there, since I have no mirrors.) I have the CDN option for W3 TC set to Self-hosted/File Transfer Protocol Upload, since I have not purchased space at any of the other options. Should I create a dir/folder for W3 to write the cache in? And if so where would I specify that URL to the folder.

Sorry to be so in the dark on this, but I really want to get the load times up. I did limit the home page to 5 posts, and all posts except the top one now have jumps (read more…) I also killed the Techozoic drop down menu option (and reworked the one drop down menu.) But that really didn't seem to shorten the load time.