Hi guys,

Im in the process of building our small company a new website via a Wordpress backend.

Would anyone be able to point me in the right direction as to why every time I create a new landing page for a specific area the total page requests for all of our pages goes up. 

For instance I first created this page which used to have about 96 page requests: 

http://051.970.myftpupload.com/photo-booth-hire-cobham.html

Then I duplicated that page a few times and customised the content specific for different geographical locations:

http://051.970.myftpupload.com/photo-booth-hire-dorking.html

However now both the new pages and one listed first went up to about 140 page requests. The only thing that’s different other than text is 4 images. Which is been handled by Foo Gallery’s plug-in 

Is this normal, as I’m concerned it’s going to spiral out of control as I have to create another 20 landing pages yet? 

On a side note, the page speed tests don’t look too bad but any advice on getting the best speed results would be greatly appreciated.

 

Thanks in advance 

Doug

Edited July 2, 20188 yr by opc121177
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Your first link is now up to 173 requests and 6.4Mb.

It looks like a whole bunch of scripts and images are being generated. Looks like emojis, logging scripts, static content and a load more junk.

It's not a good configuration you have there.

And why are you using foo gallery? There is nothing on that page that needs a gallery.

 

13 hours ago, opc121177 said:

On a side note, the page speed tests don’t look too bad but any advice on getting the best speed results would be greatly appreciated.

My advice on general speed is to only load what's required and to split the assets accordingly. Simplified, I add essential page forming css inline in the head, and then load an external css file for everything else which requires interaction e.g. hover and focus states, lightbox gallery styles etc. You can do the same with js, for example don't load google maps on every page if it's only ever used on the contact page or don't load the gallery js unless it's on the gallery page.

Thx Fisicx, there is a gallery on the forth tab in the middle of the page. I’m a complete novice here, would you be able to point me in the right direction as to better optimise the site or know of someone we could pay to correct it?

Thanks BrowserBugs. Similar to what I said above, would you be able to point me in the right direction to correct this or know if someone we could pay to do so

I don't know WordPress mate, I scratch write projects so unsure what it essential vs what can wait. I'll pm you my website so you can have a dig about and see how it's done.

You don’t need aplugin for a gallery. The built in Wordpress gallery is sufficient.

But that’s the least of your problems. You have somehow configured the site to keep generating loads of scripts and static content.

It’s going to be worth getting someone who knows how to set up a Wordpress site properly to help you with this. It’s probably going to be a 5 minute fix once they have access to your dashboard.

Unless of course it has something to do with your very strange hosting setup.

Thanks for input. I’m using. Plugin called duplicate post, which may be the cause. I’m using it to duplicate various pages which I’m modifying after for others geographical areas.

I suspect on hindsight these may have been better created from scratch.

 

Paul

That maybe the cause of the problem but there are other issues. Duplicating posts is a bad move and will get you into all sorts of trouble with Google. And the theme/page layout doesn’t work well on a phone - the device many people will be using to access the site.

Duplicate posts won't cause any additional HTTP requests, it literally just duplicates database records. I've used it myself to generate large amounts of test data.

The issue is likely down to the plugins on the site, some seem to be design-heavy like Rev Slider, which in turn generate terrible markup. A combination of all of the various plugins on the site is causing the issue, you can see a number of image, script and css files being included from each one.

I don't think the fix is easy, I'd personally be trying to re-write as much as I can to avoid using plugins, one piece at a time. I'd also look at adding filters to strip out a lot of the junk files included in website head, like the emoji scripts etc.

I think it’s the post duplicator that is creating a lot of the static content and scripts.

plugins of any sort should be avoided wherever possible. And a lot of themes can generate a whole load of additional caggage.

2 hours ago, fisicx said:

I think it’s the post duplicator that is creating a lot of the static content and scripts.

plugins of any sort should be avoided wherever possible. And a lot of themes can generate a whole load of additional caggage.

I don't see how it could, it just duplicates certain rows in the posts table. Although if it's a theme, it's possible the theme editor stores the scripts etc in the database for some horrible reason. It's possible a caching plugin could be causing issues too, but it's hard to tell.

 

Thanks for all the comments guys. I’m still digging further into the issue as we speak. Any other suggestion please don’t hestitate to mention ?

 

For what it’s worth I created a new test post and ran the figures and the requests were off the chart 

TIA Paul

Edited July 4, 20188 yr by opc121177

disable all plugins and switch to the 2017 theme and see what happens.

Well it seems I may have found the culprit. I disabled the Facebook responsive plugin and 105 of the 161 requests disappeared

 

Great. But that still leaves 50 requests. You can get rid of a lot more  if you tweak the theme and clear out the plugins you don’t need.

Yes I am doing, it’s a big step so far but as you say I don’t really want anything loading that isn’t needed.