Site loading speed

[Darren Jaskowicz]

Hi all
Could someone who knows about website load speeds etc take a look at our site and let me know what you think. I personally think it's slowed down. (Website is signature)

While your there let me know what you think can be improved. It would be a big help.

Thanks

 

[james_firmsites]

Have a look at https://gtmetrix.com/reports/zavit.co.uk/bhOBf4bZ

It gives several suggestions, but personally I found the site sluggish and you might want to look at your hosting platform too.

 

[Darren Jaskowicz]

Thanks for the reply. Yes I thought it started to be sluggish. I'll contact the host as we are supposed to have just been upgraded to a faster server.

 

[NuBlue]

http://tools.pingdom.com/fpt/ is worth using. That shows some very slow initial loads so I suggest looking at what the application is doing in the early stages of the page. Could be very slow database performance.

I put the main page and a sofa product through it. Scroll down to the File Requests and you'll see the relative point in time every file was requested and the time it takes to finish. The longer the bar, the longer it takes. Fairly obvious where to start looking.

https://tools.pingdom.com/#!/cZOgX0/Zavit.co.uk
https://tools.pingdom.com/#!/eovepx...ing/new-sandy-faux-leather-3-seater-sofa/4502

 

[fisicx]

The server is in California and you share it with over 700 other sites.

Changing to a UK host will help.

PS: the site is a bit buggy. There are all sorts of CSS anomalies.

 

[ukbf0001]

GTMetrix , Google Page Insights and the PingDom speed test tool will give you an idea of what is needed. You dont have to be 100% on everything, you just to look for the metric which shows how fast you are compared to others.

Look on Google - get the domain names of the top 3 competitors and run the same tests on their sites - to see how you stack up.