Blog very slow, no idea why.

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  millerteachglobal · Member · Jul 25, 2013 at 2:09 pm

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  People are telling me that my blog takes a very long time to fully load. As far as I know, this is a new problem. I have searched this forum, and looked at my settings, but I have no idea why. Any advice?

  The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)

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  gamenology1 · Member · Jul 25, 2013 at 2:10 pm

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  It may be a problem on the client’s end.

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  millerteachglobal · Member · Jul 25, 2013 at 2:12 pm

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  It is slow for me (in China), and slow for a few friends (in the USA). This makes me think that it is universal maybe?

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  elisedesaulniers · Member · Jul 25, 2013 at 2:15 pm

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  First time I loaded your site, it was a bit slow due to the background image. Try resize it to 72 dpi (instead of 96), it will help.

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  millerteachglobal · Member · Jul 25, 2013 at 2:23 pm

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  elise thanks, how do I do that? Forgive me n00bness.

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  timethief · Member · Jul 25, 2013 at 3:52 pm

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  @millerteachglobal
  Your blog loaded quickly for me but this is the report on blog loading time:

  Your website is slower than 92% of all tested websites

  from: http://tools.pingdom.com/fpt/#!/d5G80h/http://foodergolove.wordpress.com/

  There are things you can do to reduce page loading time. These are the ways to reduce page loading time:

  1. Edit your posts and insert “the more tag” so only excerpts appear on the front page. http://en.support.wordpress.com/splitting-content/more-tag/

  2. Reduce the number of posts appearing on the front page here > Settings > Reading
  Blog pages show at most _ posts

  3. Reduce the number of images and or media embeds displayed in your posts and/or make them smaller.

  4. Reduce the number of widgets in the sidebar and footer areas.

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  timethief · Member · Jul 25, 2013 at 3:54 pm

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  @elisedesaulniers
  Very good observation. Thanks for helping millerteachglobal here.

  @gamenology1
  Please stop posting “empty” an unhelpful comments into support forum threads. Please focus on your own blog knowing the regular Volunteers do have correct and helpful answers to provide.

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  auxclass · Member · Jul 25, 2013 at 3:59 pm

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  foodergolove.wordpress.com. – loads very very slow for me – you have a lot of BIG pictures on the home page – see the more tag above also – I don’t think that there is any reason to have a picture of Garlic & Onions at about 355 kb – under 100kb is fine –

  slow loading is a big turn off for visitors – If it was my blog I would shrink all the pictures and not have a 750kb or so header either

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  auxclass · Member · Jul 25, 2013 at 4:02 pm

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  @TT – gamy told another person to Delete their site to clear the content – I hope I caught that one – time will tell I guess – waste of time cleaning up after very bad advice – could be spent really helping people