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Why is my site loading so slowly, and how to 'minimize request size'?


I just found out that I should expect my site to get a bunch of traffic today. Great! But it's loading incredibly slowly!

According to Pingdom, the most important fix would be to minimize my request size

http://tools.pingdom.com/fpt/#!/jT4ro/radionowhere.net

What does this mean and how do I start fixing it?


Solution

  • Agree with BlackHat. Minify CSS, Javascript.

    And a free CDN you could use is CloudFlare cloudflare.com

    You can also make sure you are caching static items (images/javascript/etc).

    Another great tool here too... https://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/insights/