"SLIM" template loading very slow

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  • 06/08/2015 at 10:57 am #336787
    Linda Everett
    Participant

    Hi Steve

    I am using the SLIM template on a few sites. I really like it, but the page loads slowly. I was wondering if you have a solution or some idea to make the page load at a reasonable speed. In one case the page takes about 3 seconds to load. It sounds like nothing, but it seems long.

    Thanks,
    Linda

    06/08/2015 at 12:18 pm #336793
    Steven Zahm
    Keymaster

    @ Linda

    It took me a bit digging thru my email archive to find a link… I found one page with Slim on it:
    http://ccl.rutgers.edu/collaborators/

    It look like there are over a hundred entries on the page, that would cause a longer page load time, for the same reasons if you tried to load 100 post titles and their excerpts.

    The only real solution would be to use a page caching plugin like WP Rocket I one mention this specific plugin because that is the one I use. Not affiliated with it in any way, just a happy user.

    By using a page cache, WP will not have to rebuild the entire page each time. You will probably get 1s page loads with page caching in place.

    Hope that helps!

    06/08/2015 at 12:26 pm #336794
    Linda Everett
    Participant

    Thanks Steve – I will give that a try. The page you looked at – http://ccl.rutgers.edu/collaborators/ – is a bit slow, but another one (on a dev site that’s not yet public) is even slower. That’s the one I am most concerned with. So hopefully WP Rocket will help – thanks for the tip!

    Linda

    06/08/2015 at 1:51 pm #336802
    Linda Everett
    Participant

    FYI, I wanted to try a free caching plugin so I installed W3 Total Cache and it made a world of difference!

    Cheers,
    Linda

    06/08/2015 at 4:21 pm #336805
    Steven Zahm
    Keymaster

    @ Linda

    Great to hear. I use to use W3TC before moving to WP Rocket. It is a very good plugin.

    06/15/2015 at 12:12 pm #337481
    Linda Everett
    Participant

    Hi Steve

    Just a follow-up – I ended up ditching W3TC because it was conflicting with other plugins. But I switched to Slim Plus and enabled pagination – problem solved!

    Cheers,
    Linda

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