Hi, 

I've pretty much finished my website, on the link provided. Its image driven and I feared it would be slow. Can you advise what it any caching plugins will speed it up, also any other suggestions?

Thanks, Jason.

Hey Tahir, 

Thanks for the reply, I've pretty much finshed my site now, really pleased with it.

I've installed the BWM and Gzip plugins along with GTmetrix, they seem to slow my site down, any suggestions? 

Cheers, Jason.

Hey Tahir. 

Thanks for the reply. I'm learning a lot here and paying the price for being lazy in the past, not optimizing my content....I am getting that size down though!!

I've done some more work. I've attached two PDF reports from GTMetrix. I really just need to understand Leverage Browser Caching and Server Scaled images and how I can implement the changes in order to speed things up. 

One report has homepage size at 6.34MB with the video, or at a push I can remove the video to get it down to 3.83MB, even doing that doesn't speed things up much more because it seems to be the other issues that are the problem

Thanks in advance.

Jason.

Thanks Tahir, 

Interesting article, I've succeeded in implementing 5 of those.

Whilst my load time is now down to 7-8 seconds I'm still scoring very badly on the following -

1. Create a Cookie Free Domain - I understand the first part of the instruction on this but not this element - "Please make sure that you have used “bloginfo(‘template_directory’)” to load your static content in theme files."

2. Expire Header for Static Content - Is this really just a simple as pasting the code in the article in to my .htaccess file?

3. Caching - I tried WP Super Cache and it trashed the site, do any of the caching plugins work with Salient?

4. Manage eTags - Is this worthwhile?

Cheers, Jason.

Hey Tahir, 

Thanks very much, I really appreciate your help and patience. 

I've made further improvements in performance.

Last question really in relation to the autoptimize plugin, when activated it works well, there is a side effect in that it's altering the size text in the Navigation, Footer, Body & Testimonial, is there a way around that?

Cheers, Jason.