Boss Blog loading slow

[Johnny]

Howdy,

I have a boss blog setup over at http://inside.tradr.com

This load slow and GTMETRIX does not like it.

The main issue, is that the featured images are scaled.

Can the way boss blog posts are being displayed be changed to something more efficient?

http://gtmetrix.com/reports/inside.tradr.com/EOvOMGvw

Cheers,

Johnny

[Johnny]

GTMETRIX report attached

[Sol Huebner]

Hi @johnny,

please have a look at 10 Best Image Optimization Plugins to Speed Up Your WordPress Site.

Kind regards

[Johnny]

I already have wp smush it running

Should I use a lazy loader?

In regards to resizing, do I need to go through and do that to each one?

Can the theme itself choose the smaller image that WordPress generates, to be the featured image on the home page?

Cheers,

Johnny

[Varun Dubey]

@johnny at present issue is clearly mentioned there
1) Serve scaled images : you have to proper dimension of images exactly same what you have used in the css width and height.
like A51F661FEB1-5616×2246.jpg can be resized in HTML or CSS from 5616×2246 to 465×186.
2) Specify Dimensions : check those image codes they need width and height parameter for those images
3) Defer parsing of JavaScript : you can enable defer via adding js codes
if you are using some cache plugin they have defer setting else you can add
in functions.php

function defer_parsing_of_js ( $url ) {

if ( FALSE === strpos( $url, ‘.js’ ) ) {
return $url;
}
if ( strpos( $url, ‘jquery.js’ ) ) {
return $url;
}
return “$url’ defer=’defer”;
}
add_filter( ‘clean_url’, ‘defer_parsing_of_js’, 11, 1 );

Overall these are not the theme issues. It is how to optimize the speed and performance.

Regards
Varun Dubey