By Anders on Friday, 07 November 2014
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For our site we have a Page load time of 5.10s and I'm worried many visitors are leaving our site because of that.

Our site is hosted on Siteground (Cloud VPS)
We're using CloudFlare Pro for CDN+ Full Optimizations

Mark on Friday, November 07 2014, 12:31 AM #
If you want me to inspect on which plugins are problematic for your site, please start a new thread on our forums.

Eileen O'Donnell on Thursday, November 06 2014, 11:31 PM #

Discovered some delay with the groups

Thank you Mark for being willing to look at this for us.
Hello Anders,

This is based on my observation of the plugins on your site

1. System - Helix Framework - This takes about 1s
2. System - RokSprocket - This takes close to 1s
3. System - Debug - This takes close to 800ms

After disabling Roksprocket and Debug, your page load is reduced to 3s. If disabling Helix, it takes only 2s to load but unfortunately your template requires Helix

However, looking at your front page which doesn't have any EasySocial elements, the page itself takes close to about 2.4s to load. EasySocial is probably adding about 1s on the page load which in my opinion is perfectly fine considering EasySocial is not a basic CRUD extension
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Friday, 07 November 2014 01:25
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Thank you so much Mark

So the loading times are acceptable

I just tested with GTMetrix and got the following loading time 3.51s

What are you testing with Mark?
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Friday, 07 November 2014 01:44
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Hello Anders,

I am using Firebug's net panel to test the initial page load
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Friday, 07 November 2014 02:13
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So your recommendation Mark is not to install any plugins for optimizing of javascript and css?
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Friday, 07 November 2014 02:53
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Hello Anders,

The only tool which I saw that does this correctly is pagespeed. I am not really sure how does JCH does their optimizations but if these plugins are manipulating the DOM (html codes), it would be problematic.
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Friday, 07 November 2014 12:48
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