Anybody got 3 minutes to click through my portfolio site (it’s literally 5 pages) and tell me if some (or all, or none) of it is loading slow? It feels weird but I can’t get it to be consistently weird. www.prolifica.co
@Annie The Contact page loaded pretty slowly for me the first time I went to it. All the other pages loaded quickly, and in returning to Contact, I had no issues.
@Annie It did feel a bit slow. If you can find the Web Inspector on your browser and look at the Timeline tab that might help you see what's going on.
@Annie Portfolio was the most consistent slow loader for me with the rest of the pages loading decently quick. The browser inspector is definitely a good place to start.
@gregmoore About page just took 45 seconds to load! It's all over the (slow) place. thanks for checking for me
@bennorris Contact page just loaded in 1 sec for me, then About page took 45. Hmmm. Thanks for checking it for me!
@Annie Loading the first page is very slow for me. It took about a minute for the page to load for me the first time. It is inconsistent though, as you said.
@Annie It was slow for me, too, but once it loaded, I thought everything looked great. Nice work on the site and I’m sure you’ll get the loading issues worked out.
@Annie I know you’re looking for web site performance feedback, but I caught a typo. On the About page, the sentence
Your work suffers, because you’re doing it anymore.
probably needs a “not” before the “doing.”
I loved the pricing page. 😆
@Annie I took another look with my browser's dev tools and a basic speed test site. They both point to your theme and carousel plug-in loading a lot of stuff before the server starts serving the page. I'm no expert on this kind of thing but trying simple things like removing/turning things off and loading the page in a private browser tab should give you some actual results.
@gregmoore Thank you, that's helpful. I removed a bunch of plugins and did updates last night but fell asleep before I got anywhere. Going to play around again now
@fgtech Ooh thanks, fixed that now! Pricing page... I tried to be serious but gave up. ha. Glad you like it.
@gregmoore I had a hunch that carousel was part of the performance issue but wasn’t at my computer to check so I figured somebody else would. Thank you!
Side note: it’s amazing that Micro.blog has grown enough that lazyweb tactics like this now work. Go micronauts!
@fgtech @gregmoore I disabled the carousel but still had loading issues... I don't think it was helping but not the main problem
@Annie @mtt @bennorris @miraz @gregmoore @johnbrayton @bobwertz @fgtech @simonwoods Fixed it! (I think) THANKS YOU'RE ALL AMAZING. blowing kisses, throwing confetti Seems like a combo of outdated plugins + wrong setting on cache plugin.