@rpeterika, when on shared hosting, you can only expect a certain level of speed. you get what you pay for.
that said, you can speed things up by doing doing little things.
does the site you mention relate to "Ekistics Design Studio" ?
if so, you dont really need to use the thematic scripts. (they apply to your main menu nav and dont seem to be working.
so, i would disable those and also host your jquery direct from google. like helga mentioned, its normally cached on most users computers anyway.
pop the following in your child functions.php
kill the thamtic superfish scripts for the menu
// remove thematic head scripts
function remove_scripts() {
remove_action('wp_head','thematic_head_scripts');
}
add_action('init', 'remove_scripts');
load jquery direct from jquery
// enqueue scripts
function my_init() {
if (!is_admin()) {
wp_deregister_script('jquery');
wp_register_script('jquery', 'http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.4.4/jquery.min.js', false, '1.4.4', true);
wp_enqueue_script('jquery');
}
}
add_action('init', 'my_init');
in the future, if you need to add some specific jquery plugin, you can ammend the above code like so,
// enqueue scripts
function my_init() {
if (!is_admin()) {
wp_deregister_script('jquery');
wp_register_script('jquery', 'http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.4.4/jquery.min.js', false, '1.4.4', true);
wp_enqueue_script('jquery');
//my new script
wp_enqueue_script('mynewscript', get_bloginfo('stylesheet_directory') . '/js/mynewscript.js', array('jquery'), '1.0', true );
}
}
add_action('init', 'my_init');
i flicked around site, it doesn't seem too slow to me.
you have a C grade on Y-Slow.
you could optimise your..
expire headers
gzip compression
this is done with a .ini file. i'm unsure that all shared hosting let you do this.
if yours does....
there will be a HTACESS file at the root of your wordpress install, where you find the wp-config.php file, etc. before doing anything, i suggest you take a copy (this contains info regarding your current wordpress install). messing this up, could break your site.
add the following to HTACCESS
# gzip compression.
<IfModule mod_deflate.c>
# html, txt, css, js, json, xml, htc:
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/html text/plain text/css application/json
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/javascript application/javascript application/x-javascript
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/xml application/xml text/x-component
# webfonts and svg:
<FilesMatch "\.(ttf|otf|eot|svg)$" >
SetOutputFilter DEFLATE
</FilesMatch>
</IfModule>
# these are pretty far-future expires headers
# they assume you control versioning with cachebusting query params like
# <script src="application.js?20100608">
# additionally, consider that outdated proxies may miscache
# www.stevesouders.com/blog/2008/08/23/revving-filenames-dont-use-querystring/
# if you don't use filenames to version, lower the css and js to something like
# "access plus 1 week" or so
<IfModule mod_expires.c>
Header set Cache-Control "public"
ExpiresActive on
# Perhaps better to whitelist expires rules? Perhaps.
ExpiresDefault "access plus 1 month"
# cache.manifest needs re-requests in FF 3.6 (thx Remy ~Introducing HTML5)
ExpiresByType text/cache-manifest "access plus 0 seconds"
# your document html
ExpiresByType text/html "access plus 0 seconds"
# data
ExpiresByType text/xml "access plus 0 seconds"
ExpiresByType application/xml "access plus 0 seconds"
ExpiresByType application/json "access plus 0 seconds"
# rss feed
ExpiresByType application/rss+xml "access plus 1 hour"
# favicon (cannot be renamed)
ExpiresByType image/vnd.microsoft.icon "access plus 1 week"
# media: images, video, audio
ExpiresByType image/gif "access plus 1 month"
ExpiresByType image/png "access plus 1 month"
ExpiresByType image/jpg "access plus 1 month"
ExpiresByType image/jpeg "access plus 1 month"
ExpiresByType video/ogg "access plus 1 month"
ExpiresByType audio/ogg "access plus 1 month"
ExpiresByType video/mp4 "access plus 1 month"
ExpiresByType video/webm "access plus 1 month"
# webfonts
ExpiresByType font/truetype "access plus 1 month"
ExpiresByType font/opentype "access plus 1 month"
ExpiresByType font/woff "access plus 1 month"
ExpiresByType image/svg+xml "access plus 1 month"
ExpiresByType application/vnd.ms-fontobject "access plus 1 month"
# css and javascript
ExpiresByType text/css "access plus 1 month"
ExpiresByType application/javascript "access plus 1 month"
ExpiresByType text/javascript "access plus 1 month"
</IfModule>
# Since we're sending far-future expires, we don't need ETags for
# static content.
# developer.yahoo.com/performance/rules.html#etags
FileETag None
maybe read up on things before doing any of the above to the HTACESS.
hope any of this helps
