Slow website

[StephenCallaghan]

Hi

I have just migrated from a custom written php/mysql site to a site using wordpress and woocommerce.

I couldnt believe the drop in speed . I am using a few plugins for wordpress - contact forms / social sharing. and I have a few woocommerce plugins for taking payment etc.

I am hosting images css's and js's on W3 Total Cache and MAXCDN hoping to speed the site up but  tools at http://tools.pingdom.com/fpt   sometimes show that the time between browser request and reply can be between 1 and 15 secs.

I have searched all day looking for a post I read about two months ago with a tool that seems to look at server responce and redirect processing etc hoping it would help but cant find it. If anyone knows what I am talking about I would appreciate them posting a link

The site is http://www.synergy-health.co.uk   and an example of an inner page is

http://www.synergy-health.co.uk/home/shop/alacer-emergen-c-1000-mg-vitamin-c-acai-berry-30-packets-8-4-g-each/

Any suggestions please?  Perhaps I have w3total cache set wrong?

Also, as the has been tanked and is in freefal iin google ranking since January would this be a good time to change the structure of Url  from home/shop/product  to domain.name/brand/product?

Thanks in advance !

[LesleyPaone]

The site is taking way to long to load. What are the specs of the server that it is on and what kind of hosting package do you have? Also are you using godaddy?

Looking at the site, it looks like you are requesting to death. You have 14 css requests and 26 js requests. You should only have about 2 max. Also it looks like you should use a css sprite too. But the main issue looks to be server side to be totally honest. You can install new relic if you are on a vps account or have root access. But using something like maxcdn is not going to help you if you are not getting a lot of traffic. The issue seems to be the generating of the pages, not slowness in downloading files. This is what my wordpress site does on a vps server. http://tools.pingdom.com/fpt/#!/bJ1IAF/dh42.com

[vmialik]

It is very common for W3TC to perform slower if not configured correctly, or don't have optimal server side configuration to run W3TC caching/speed-improvements. Feel free to read more:

http://wordpress.org/support/topic/web-sites-about-20-slower-with-w3-total-cache

Some opt for simpler caching plugins like super cache http://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-super-cache/

Hope this helps!

[StephenCallaghan]

Thanks to you both

I disabled total cache and ironically site loads a bit quicker.  and I will look to combine the .css's and js's into single files if poss.

Thanks again!