@ Richard
- http://tools.pingdom.com/fpt/#!/TPcZl/http://livetheup.com/
- https://gtmetrix.com/reports/livetheup.com/bfEkIoJ4
Well, looking at the page load requests and the times for each request there is one request that takes 16+ seconds to respond:
http://livetheup.com/?headway-trigger=compiler&file=general&layout-in-use=index&rand=1399919414
There is another one that takes 1+ seconds to respond:
http://livetheup.com/?headway-trigger=compiler&file=layout-index&layout-in-use=index&rand=1723172460
These two request seem to account for 18+ seconds of the page load time of the site.
My best guess these requests are being created by the theme. I do not see how Connections would have an impact on these requests. Looking at the Connections related requests, they are in line with all the other requests on the pages. These requests from the theme seems to be the CSS. I’m not sure why the theme would do this because loading the CSS this way makes W3TC almost of no use since it appears these are being created on each page request (very bad for performance). It is possible the theme is simply pulling these from from the db and not creating them on page load. Even still, that is not the quickest way to load the CSS files.
Like I said, not sure Connections could have an impact on these two requests, but if you can give me a temp admin account and an FTP login, I’ll take a look to make sure there is not some edge case bug causing bad page load times for you.
