I’m currently experiencing an issue with my website’s performance that’s left me a bit perplexed. While I’ve tried various strategies, I’m still facing challenges with slow loading times and decreased user engagement.
I’m reaching out to the HubSpot community to see if anyone has encountered similar issues and has valuable insights to share. Whether it’s suggestions for optimizing website speed, improving user experience, or any other web-related advice, I’m eager to hear your thoughts and experiences. Your expertise would be greatly appreciated.
Hi @PLeah it looks like your website is built on wordpress and not the HubSpot CMS, so some of the recomendations provided here might not apply.
There’s a lot of elements to site loading. For wordpress, you might also want to check in with your hosting provider to see the bandwith and speeds they offer as it’s not automatically a high speed or content delivery network provided site.
It might help to use a tool like google’s page speed insights to check on what elements are affecting your page speed. They have a clear breakdown of the elements affecting your site speed there, although it is always good to take these with a grain of salt too as they are generic metrics.
Having a quick look through the analysis there, there are a few quick fixes for this. The easiest one is to reduce image size, you can do this by compressing your images before uploading them to your site. There’s a lot of good free tools for this too.
The second, which will be the most impactful but takes some knowledge of your website is to reduce the scripts you’re using. If you load any plugins, extensions or extra systems on your site it will load more scripts and impact the page speed. Looking through this is looks like your worst offended is a script from a service called “media.net”. You may want to consider if these scripts are essential to your site and remove them if they’re not. Removing any unwanted wordpress plugins will also help with this.
There’s a massive amount of things that can be done, but tools like this will help you analyse this and figure out where you can strip away any weight from your site.