Website Speed Test

[Anthony]

Anthony

July 4, 2015 at 4:39 am

Hi Ben,
I would appreciate if you could suggest a simple fix or plugin to optimise the loading speed of my site – stonecircle.ie
I have run a speed test on Pingdom (69/100) and Google Page (56/100 mobile).They both indicate problems
with Java scripts and CSS above the fold. The advice is that 30 Java scripts should be combined into as few as possible and 13 CSS files should be combined Issues regarding parallelize downloads were also highlighted with 67 parallelize requests
I have read your forum to seek a solution and cannot find a simple solution for a non coder –very much the everyday person who is using Kadence to build a site –hence you will see why I am attracted to your theme with its integration with site origin.This has enabled me to get so far with widgets and drag and drop plugins.
My hosting provider suggested I raise the speed issue with you as some themes have different ways of coding to speed up loading scripts .
I also note some “experts ” advertising solutions for hundreds of $$$!!.
One other piece advice that comes up is image sizes and I am confused here as your demo theme uses large images and a continuing thread in your theme and forun seems to be to use larger images as is possible. Surely this impacts down load speeds !!!
In any event I am amazed at the level of service and support you and Hannah provide and an hopeful you can suggest a simple solution or perhaps a tweaking of your themes in an upgrade to handle such loading issues
THanking you in anticipation
Anthony