Site Optimization

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In two weeks I will officially launch miracleofnature.org. It is a fairly complex site that will include custom post types and taxonomies. Over the last two months, the load time of my home page has increased from around 3 secs to over 4 secs, even though I haven't added any new plugins or done much of anything to the site (data gathered using Pingdom Tools).

I would like to troubleshoot the slow-down and also optimize my site in whatever way possible to speed it up. Are there some decent guidelines somewhere for doing this? Or should I hire someone to take a look. Pingdom typically shows a long wait time (yellow bar) of three seconds or more. I'm not sure what this means, though I think it has to do with the loading of code. Is this correct? In any event, the yellow bar seems to show where the problem lies.

Any help will be much appreciated.

http://miracleofnature.org

[songdogtech]

For one, kill the auto-playing audio - it's annoying and uses bandwidth right away that prevents the page itself from loading. If you must, load it asynchronously.

Take a look at your GTMetrix report: http://gtmetrix.com/reports/miracleofnature.org/gxADviIr Optimize your images, and scale them and specify dimensions in html and you may be able to get closer to a B or A rating.

But the biggest issue is that I doubt your host - pressable - is that great. The bigger hosts, such as Bluehost, have the servers and the bandwidth to provide very good hosting at ~$6/month. CPTs and lots of tags/categories take some database server horsepower, and the smaller hosts are usually overloaded already.

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