Hey Harmony,

I've never seen this theme load *this* slowly. If you're already using a Caching plugin, you could consider a couple other things:

1) Optimize your images for web - there are services that will do this for you. You may want to make your images a bit smaller, there's no use-case that would require as large of images as you have.

2) Look into a CDN to handle your images

3) Increase Server Resources - I do not know for sure, but you are likely on shared hosting. A Wordpress specific host (like WP Engine) would be able to help you optimize your install.

Anyways, good luck - hope this works for your client.

Justin

Hi, any thoughts on this one yet? Client is chasing it up.

Hi guys, I've just launched a new client website using the beautiful Photopharm template - http://www.mckeanphoto.com.au

As you'll be able to see on first uncached load it takes between 12 - 30 seconds to load up the homepage.

I understand this is due to the page grabbing ALL the images associated with that page before loading the first one (and we've already split up our galleries into smaller ones), but is there any other way I can address the speed issue other than making the images smaller (which my client doesn't want to do as it seriously effects the quality)?

For example - is there any way to load the html/css/scripts and the very first image immediately, then load the remaining photos in the background? I know this would still take up to 30 seconds but it would 'look' like the page had already loaded, rather than the user sitting there for 30 seconds staring at a loading icon.

Many thanks for your help.

Harmony