Have you any ideas how I can speed up my site please?

where do you host? Is it virtual account or dedicated server, how fast? How much ram, cpu?

some of those screen shots could be optimized more I'm sure, but it looks like its quite slow hosting, I'm guessing it's virtual? which comes with the territory really.

Ajax.

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A 185k index file could have something to do with it. Doing a lot of the work on it via javascript could be another.
A faster host would help but not much. The page is just poorly done.

I don't think it's the site that slow things down. It's the server.

talk to your hosting support and let them have a look at it. btw - it doesn't even load for me....

The biggest improvement would be to use efficient (and valid) CSS code instead of tables like you are using now.

The code for your site is just painfully inefficient and messy.

It's your host, even with or with out tables it should load faster.
Where on mars is the server located?

won't even load for me.

180kb html is too big

you might consider using mod gzip to compress html and that will make the page about ~40kb.

http://whatsmyip.org/mod_gzip_test/
Page Size: 185 K
Size if Gzipped: 44 K
Potential Savings: 76.22%

also finding a faster hosting would help out...

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* TOTAL_HTML - Congratulations, the total number of HTML files on this page (including the main HTML file) is 3 which most browsers can multithread. Minimizing HTTP requests is key for web site optimization.
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get the mozilla plug-in web developer 1.1.4
it puts the speed report on your right click menu

Thanks alot guys for your help. I am going to look in to several options and probably will upgrade the host to dedicated.
Right now, it is on webair virtual.

As for content on the page, is it worth getting it redesigned into properly formated css tables and such?

Homersimpson thanks for the link, except it says page not found when I input my site in it.


Thanks for all the help people.

Just say no.

oky doky dx,

ill look at dedicated hosting plans right now

Do you think dedicated will simply make it run faster then?

Definitely. But you may not need that. A VPS account could do. Or simply moving to a different host.

Some people sell virtual just to get the client to upgrade to dedicated ...
To say that upgrading to dedicated will necessarely speedup his site is just not true ( If I give him a low end Celeron, it wont be better ... ).

I host big virtual sites, but I do balance those customers/sites across a number of virtual servers . Those servers are then filled up with mainstream low-consumption sites for profitability . Those servers are powerfull to begin with.

One client has 3 big WP sites, spread across boxes for about 120.00 / month ... Oh my god, he could get a dedicated for that price ... isn't it awfull ... he is getting screwed ....

He isn't stupid and isn't getting screwed. If he would put all his sites on one dedicated, he would need a top of the line server with a 10 mbps connection.... ( now, he has access to 3 different 10 mbps ports ... )

A VPS will only garantee you of certain ressources , so your overusage will not penalize the other VPS on that server ....

Some host are reputable for dedicated but not for virtual ....

above all all virtual WP sites.

brilliant, now I get even more confused in a confused enough subject haha

Unless this site is making you some good income, a dedicated server would be a gamble. Don't listen to the "it has to be golden!" GFY retards who can only have the best.

Dedicated is nice but there's a reason virtual hosting exists. Use it until you outgrow it financially.

There are a lot of areas to improve that will help the site speed that you should try first before sinking in a lot more money.

k, thanks shavebucks. Nice website by the way, love the comments about cuntinghardest lol

The JS is slowing stuff quite a lot. Pages that do not include the big arrays load fast.