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My Website loads very slowly - by Dousseaud

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Dousseaud

Participant

July 10, 2017 at 15:56

Hello,

My website http://www.trendyoffers.shop loads very slowly.

According to my host this is partly due to CSS-file /wp-content/themes/legenda/custom.css?ver=3.2

Could you please help me to improve loading times?

Best,
Paul

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Rose Tyler

Support staff

July 10, 2017 at 16:03

Hello,

Due to GTmetrix result https://gtmetrix.com/reports/www.trendyoffers.shop/iy4VlgkI , please follow the suggestions from these articles:
https://varvy.com/pagespeed/leverage-browser-caching.html
https://varvy.com/pagespeed/defer-loading-javascript.html
http://www.elegantthemes.com/blog/tips-tricks/optimize-images-for-your-wordpress-website
https://premium.wpmudev.org/blog/10-best-image-optimization-plugins-to-speed-up-your-wordpress-site/?ptm=b&utm_expid=3606929-108.O6f5ypXuTg-XPCV9sY1yrw.1

Also you can use some additional plugins for compression, caching (W3 Total Cache etc), image optimization (WP Smush etc.) and Javascript / CSS Minifiers. These can optimize and speed up your website.

Regards,
Rose Tyler.

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Dousseaud

Participant

July 11, 2017 at 11:20

Hello,

Thanks for the information. However, my website is much faster, if I use a standard theme like storefront. Could you please have another look at the issue?

Regards,
Paul

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Rose Tyler

Support staff

July 11, 2017 at 14:19

Hello,

Try to disable your custom.css and transfer your code in style.css file of your child theme https://www.8theme.com/demo/docs/legenda/#!/child_theme

Regards,
Rose Tyler.

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Dousseaud

Participant

July 12, 2017 at 08:57

Hello Rose,

I created a child theme. But I don’t know how to disable the custom.css and transfer the code in the style.css file. Could you please advise?

Regards,
Paul

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Rose Tyler

Support staff

July 12, 2017 at 09:05

Hello,

Please copy your code from custom css and put it in child theme > style.css, then go to Theme Options > http://prntscr.com/funpia

Regards,
Rose Tyler.

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Dousseaud

Participant

July 12, 2017 at 09:14

Hello Rose,

I disabled the custom.css in the Theme options. But I don’t know how to transfer the code in the style.css file.

However, disabeling the custom.css didn’t yield in any improvement.

BR,
Paul

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Rose Tyler

Support staff

July 12, 2017 at 14:16

Hello,

We’d love to help you optimize your site but that is outside the scope of our support. I can give you just the main tips but every site is individual.
General site speed depends on many factors. Below you’ll find main of them

1) Plugins. When you have multiple plugins installed and activated on your site, it can slow it down. So, please, keep enabled only those plugins that you really need for the correct functioning of your site and disable all the plugin that you don’t use. The more plugins you use, the slower it will be.

2) Caching. The most important part of optimizing your site is caching. Combine cached page with gzip compression to get better results. We recommend using W3 Total Cache. Read the beginners guide to setting up W3 Total Cache plugin https://premium.wpmudev.org/blog/w3-total-cache-settings/
Also, a very good plugin is WP Rocket, but it’s paid.

3) Images. Use optimized images only otherwise you will have big images and a slow loading time. Do not upload larger images than what is needed. When you use image editing tool like Photoshop don’t save images without using the option “Save For Web”.
There are different ways on how to compress images. Use special services or WordPress plugins to optimize your images for decreased loading times:
– tinypng.com
– Compressor.io
– Kraken.io
– Ewww Image Optimizer
– Smush Image Compression and Optimization plugin

In case you need professional help with site optimization you may contact wpkraken team.

Regards,
Rose Tyler.

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Dousseaud

Participant

July 12, 2017 at 14:28

Hello Rose,

Thanks for the information.

However, the issue seems to be a legenda file. The CSS-file /wp-content/themes/legenda/custom.css?ver=3.2 is loaded on nearly every website of my shop. But this file does not exist. WordPress moves all non existing files to index.php this leads to very long loading times.

Could you please advise on how to correct this problem?

BR,
Paul

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Laranz

Participant

July 13, 2017 at 06:35

Hi,

Just open the custom.css via FTP, copy its content and paste that in to your Child Theme’s style.css file, after that, go to Theme Options > http://prntscr.com/funpia

If still that didn’t work, please refresh your cache and see that works, optionally you can delete the custom.css file in your parent theme. If that didn’t work, pass us the WP Login details in the private content area.

Let us know,

Thanks,
laranz.

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Dousseaud

Participant

July 13, 2017 at 08:10

Hello,

Please see the private note.

BR,
Paul

Please, contact administrator
for this information.

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Laranz

Participant

July 13, 2017 at 16:14

Hi,

Can you check now? The custom.css won’t generate now. 🙂

If you want to do custom CSS then do that by creating a Child theme and put everything in the Child theme’s style.css or do that in Appearance -> Customize -> Custom CSS.

Now it loads fast, if you still want more fast, use some cache plugins.

Let us know,

Thanks,
laranz.

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