Website loading incredibly slow

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  fslegie · Member · Feb 14, 2015 at 11:12 am

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  My website is loading incredibly slow. I know I have a huge number of high resolution pictures on my website but still. Is there any way I can increase the speed of my website? Maybe by buying some sort of upgrade? Any help is appreciated.

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  Frank

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  justjennifer · Member · Feb 14, 2015 at 12:53 pm

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  I know I have a huge number of high resolution pictures on my website but still.

  So, first of all, stop doing that. There’s no benefit in uploading images at a resolution of 5616×3744 pixels when they’re being viewed at a much lower resolution. Images don’t need to be larger than 1000 pixels on their longest side at 72ppi. Optimize before you upload.

  No upgrade will give you a faster loading website, but optimizing your images before you upload them will certainly do so.

  If you want to replace existing images, you’ll want to see this earlier forum thread of mine https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/media-library-21?replies=8#post-2258313