I've been testing the load times of your account and even after clearing my cache and reloading all images and information, it has been consistently loading under 4 seconds for me. I also tried loading it on my mobile phone and it loaded in under 15 seconds.

It may be that there is some issue with the network connection between you and your website. A traceroute can help to determine that.

If you can open the command line for your computer and run the following command and then copy/paste the results back to me, it will help to see if there are any problems in getting a signal from your computer to our servers:

tracert cozinhafetiva.wordpress.com

I'd like to try "traceroot". However I am using MacOS. The link you posted if for a PC. Do you have another link?

Yep. Give this a shot: http://support.godaddy.com/help/article/3366/performing-a-traceroute-in-mac-os-x?pc_split_value=2

sorry to take so long to respond.

The sight is still extremely slow. I just tested it in two ways:

1. compared to my website.
My website fully loaded in 4 seconds
My blog fully loaded in 27 seconds

2. with no CSS.
I cleared the CSS and tested to see if this affected the load time. There was no difference.

This was on the same network/browser/time of day (i.e. no other variables changed)

I am not sure what to do. I edit all my photos on photoshop before posting - and have them no bigger then 628px wide, with a dpi of 150. I have also had the blog for a few years and never had a problem before (even though I used to post HUGE photos!).

I'd like to try "traceroot". However I am using MacOS. The link you posted if for a PC. Do you have another link?

Thanks!

Becca

I don't know code and don't understand computer talk, so if you have a suggestion that this luddite can understand, that would be marvelous!

I'm at a coffee shop in a small town in upstate NY right now, and I just tested http://blog.beccarose.co.uk/ just now after clearing my browser cache to make sure it's a fresh load, and the site loaded for me in about 3 seconds.

I did see it load quite slowly once before when I first checke http://blog.beccarose.co.uk/ after you first posted, but now it's loading fast for me.

@timethief, any chance you could let us know about how long http://blog.beccarose.co.uk/ takes for you do load it?

@awaywiththespoons, approx. how fast is it taking for the site to load for you now? Maybe it's an internet provider or network-level issue (which can happen sometimes and is pretty hard to track down). Documenting a traceroute from your side may help track down the source of the problem. Would you be willing to give that a try?

This page has an example of what a traceroute looks like:
http://www.mediacollege.com/internet/troubleshooter/traceroute.html

Aside: you could test your CSS theory by temporarily removing all CSS (make sure to save a backup first!), clearing your browser cache, and then re-loading the site and testing the load speed. Then add back the custom CSS.

@timetheif, thanks for the advice. I have changed from infinite scroll setting. But I've never had a problem with images / speed before, and the only variable that has changed is the CSS (I've been adding images for 3 years).

To reduce page loading time you can:

1. Reduce the number and size of u=images on the front page.
2. Use excerpts and/or limit the number of posts on front page.
3. You can use CSS to improve your web sites load time. With your styles in an external .css file, the browser can cache all the formatting and stylizing for your pages instead of having to read each and every single tag all over again. This reduces lengthy tags and replaces them with smaller class styles instead. Combine your background images into a single image and use the CSS background-image and background-position properties to display the desired image segment. If you add any custom CSS to your blog, make sure it validates. P.S. I don't help with CSS editing.

Sorry for the bombardment of messages, there are just a few little things to fix and I think my sites will be perfect!

My blog is very slow. It takes ages to load and does not scroll fluidly once loaded. I think it it the CSS (there is a warning in the margins that the code with * will be slow).

<br /> /* image frame */<br /> img[class*="align"], img[class*="wp-image-"], #content .gallery .gallery-icon img {<br /> border: none;<br /> }</p> <p>a:focus img[class*="align"], a:hover img[class*="align"], a:active img[class*="align"], a:focus img[class*="wp-image-"], a:hover img[class*="wp-image-"], a:active img[class*="wp-image-"], #content .gallery .gallery-icon a:focus img, #content .gallery .gallery-icon a:hover img, #content .gallery .gallery-icon a:active img {<br /> background: none;<br /> border-color: #BBBBBB;<br /> }

Above is the (what I think is the problem). It is code to eliminate the frames around images. I just want a completely minimal style, with no frames, no rollover changes on images, just simple! Is there a way of having the images without frames or rollover, but still maintaining the speed?

thanks in advance! becca :)

After changing my header image, it has become very slow to load and takes quite a bit of time to actually appear, even though it's smaller in size (around 70kb).

If anybody would have suggestions on how to fix this, I'd be very grateful:)

My site is http://singularityuniverse.me

Cheers!

Martin

I'm running IE8 which is the latest for XP according to Microsoft.

IE10 was released for Windows 8 users on October 26th. IE9 is most current browser version for those who don't run Windows XP. Those running Windows XP like me need to be aware that the Google Apps team announced that it will no longer support Internet Explorer 8 (and lower) on November 15, 2012. After that date those using Internet Explorer 8 will see a message recommending that they upgrade their browser. I run both Chrome and Firefox.

Why do these people try to mend things that aren't broken?

Instead I recommend that you ONLY create posts here > Dashboard > Posts > All Posts > Add New

If you are not running one of the browsers and versions listed at http://browsehappy.com/ please try upgrading or switching first.

Note: If you are using an IE9 browser in compatibility mode that makes it render as IE7 and IE7 is not supported. To disable see > http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/1196-internet-explorer-compatibility-view-turn-off.html

If you are, please do these four things:

1. Try clearing your browser’s cache http://www.google.com/support/accounts/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=32050

2. Make sure that you have third-party cookies enabled http://en.support.wordpress.com/third-party-cookies/

3. Try with all browser extensions or add-ons temporarily disabled.

4. Try enabling HTTPS: http://en.support.wordpress.com/https/

If you are not successful let us know which browser (and version of it) you’re using and post any error reports you get.

New postings refuse to upload. The mill wheel grinds away with the notation "publishing" but nothing happens. In the end I give up.

I've tried posting a short blog plus a jpeg image reduced to about 380K. Then I tried deleting the image and just sending the blog, but still nothing happened. Nothing is published when I click the button.

I work my blog in Word and then copy and paste the text into the blog, making any spacing corrections in situ. This has always worked in the past.

Is WordPress particularly slow these days? Or has something changed while my back has been turned? Advice would be appreciated. Thanks.