I just upgraded to premium and the performance of the website has really degraded.

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  kartoone · Member · Dec 4, 2014 at 10:50 pm

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  I recently purchased the upgrade from the free toonecycling.wordpress.com account to the toonecycling.com wordpress account. The performance is now terrible. Page loads take 3-4 times longer than prior to upgrade. Is there a setting I can fix to make my website load faster?

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

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  thatrobyn · Member · Dec 5, 2014 at 12:20 am

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  Hey there!

  I took a look at your site history and the upgrade coincided with the addition of two posts with a rather large number of images. Because you have your site set up for Infinite Scroll, you display full posts on your front page, and all your posts appear to include a great number of images, it is possible this is one of the reasons your site is slowing down.

  I’m going to have you try a couple tests, to help diagnose the issue.

  1. First, could you turn off your infinite scroll.

     Also, adjust your blog settings to display just 1 at a time. Don’t worry, this is temporary. You can change this number when you’re done with the test.

     You can make these changes here:
     https://toonecycling.wordpress.com/wp-admin/options-reading.php?settings-updated=true

     Save your changes, then reload your site. Let me know if this impacted your load time at all.

  2. Next, I want to test the following links:

     wordpress.com
     s1.wp.com
     sat.wordpress.com

     Please let me know how the load time is on these pages.

  Looking forward to hearing from you. Thanks very much.

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  kartoone · Member · Dec 5, 2014 at 12:13 pm

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  Turning off the infinite scroll and letting it display just one blog at a time did the trick. It is now loading much faster. Also, the load time to wordpress.com, s1.wp.com, and sat.wordpress.com all continue to be fast which is why I was puzzled about the degradation in performance after upgrading. I guess it was just the coincidence of upgrading at the exact time I added two large posts! Thanks for your help. Brian Toone

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  thatrobyn · Member · Dec 5, 2014 at 6:39 pm

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  Excellent! I thought that might be the case. Frankly, I’m glad since this is a much easier fix for you :)

  Out of curiosity, have you ever considered adding a “more” tag to your posts? This way, you can choose the amount of text/images that will display on the front page, and visitors can click to see the full article. Might be a way to speed up load time for your homepage:

  en.support.wordpress.com/splitting-content/more-tag/

  I hope this helps! If you have any other concerns, drop me a note. Thanks much!