Time spent downloading a page increased drasticly

[Olivia_led]

Hi Guys,

We have found increased "Time spend downloading a page" drastically.

Our website: www.learnenglishindublin.com

Our company is located in Ireland, so we moved our servers from US to Ireland at the beginning of December.

Also before increasing 'Time spend downloading a page" I did:

I have installed plugins JCH Optimize (plugin is optimizing CSS and Javascripts [merging them])

I have installed ScriptsDown - which is moving all scripts to bottom of site.

Pingdom tools shows that site is loading average of 2.7 secs.

Pages are cached.

Gzip is used.

Our SEO rankings dropped from 1 page to 2 page.

We have gone up in Google Maps search.

Image sizes are about 1.7MB  Any idea how things have actually gotten worse after this “improvement”?

Thanks,

Olivia

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[Horizon]

Hi Olivia,

Maybe Rand has set about you (translation here for all non UK folk) for ripping off the SEOmoz site?

In all seriousness, 1.7mb is rather excessive for images. I would consider scaling these down.

I've never heard of any association between scriptsdown and increased page speed, so I doubt this is effecting it (PS - have you heard of Google Tag Manager?)

Is your new server equivalent in spec to your previous server? Smaller capacities and bandwidth can play a small part in load speed but probably not by that much... Just a thought though.

Cheers

Matt

[irvingw]

What improvement are you referring to, moving the server? Is your new server as beefy as the old server? That could be the main cause

Image sizes seem to be a bit high can you optimize them better?

use yslow or google pagespeed to analyze what is slowing down the site also webpagetest.org

http://www.webpagetest.org/result/121217_GQ_JWT/