Site loading time

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  susanobryan · Member · Feb 3, 2014 at 1:57 am

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  a couple of my readers mentioned that one of my posts took a long time to load — is it because I have a video and a gallery in it? Wondering if there are any other things I should be aware of on my blog that may be causing delayed loading of pages, posts, site. Thank you!

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  staff-ozmodiar · Staff · Feb 3, 2014 at 8:10 pm

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  Can you show me an example of a specific post where problems were reported to you?

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  staff-ozmodiar · Staff · Feb 3, 2014 at 8:11 pm

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  But in general, yes. If you have, for example, YouTube videos embedded in your post, it can take longer to load.

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  thistimethisspace · Member · Feb 3, 2014 at 8:13 pm

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  These are the ways to reduce page loading time:

  1. Edit 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 posts and pages and/or make them smaller.

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