Thank you for using wpForo @uforeport,

I'd like to point the wpForo admin message feature. Haven't you checked the feature? 

Hi @Sofy,

I've seen this feature, really cool. 

I'm reserving it for displaying vital or very important information as opposed to generic information.

I'm hoping that way it will be eye catching to others when I need it to be.

Hi

Very nice layout, especially the logo is attractive. Huge knowledge base on everything related to UFOs. However, you need to watch the speed as the website takes almost 10 seconds to load.

Suggestions:

1. Use a cache plugin

2. Optimize the images

Warmest Regards

dhyanakendra

Posted by: dhyanakendra

Suggestions:

1. Use a cache plugin

Caching plugins do NOT work right with wpForo.

Posted by: dhyanakendra

Hi

Very nice layout, especially the logo is attractive. Huge knowledge base on everything related to UFOs. However, you need to watch the speed as the website takes almost 10 seconds to load.

Suggestions:

1. Use a cache plugin

2. Optimize the images

Warmest Regards

dhyanakendra

Hi,

Thanks for your feedback, would you have any suggestions on how to go about / what plugin to use to optimise the images?

What country are you from? Our server sometimes has issues but it shouldn't be a constant issue, you may have visited at a time when the server was struggling, I'm surprised it took that long to load.

I really appreciate your feedback, comments, suggestions and compliments.

I checked your site(s) out in your signature and they are truly beautiful websites, very fast as well 😉 would love some recommendations on how to get my website that snappy.

@uforeport

Nice site and nice work on it.

Still you are slow, very slow i could say. And your "score" is very low, 33% & 43% and 10-12 seconds to load your forum page in GT Metrix.

https://gtmetrix.com/

This is something you should watch carefully and fix. The slowness could be a poor server, a poor connectivity OR some Wordpress problems (enable debug to a log and check).

Feel free to report here, i would be more than glad to help in this forum.

@anonymous20 thank you so much for your feedback and the offer of help and support. I'd love to take you up on that.

So I've enabled debugging in the WordPress config file, I'm not getting any PHP errors anywhere on my site, so I assume that it's more than likely a hosting issue.

I'm on a Reseller/Shared hosting account I own, I do have high availability on my account and I'm paying a premium for this, so I'm shocked it's performing so poorly speed wise.

My other sites are OK? The only thing I can think is the theme I am using is a directory theme / template that has been highly customised, maybe that's slowing it down?

I could always switch to a VPS with Digital Ocean or a similar provider but my command line and linix skills are rather poor so I want to try and avoid this for as long as possible.

Any advice where to go from here? Thanks for your help thus far.

@uforeport Do not enable DEBUG but DEBUG TO A LOG.

And check your wp-content/debug.log after a few hours or so.

This is your first check. If your debug LOG is empty from serious errors, then we can continue.

Checking your Home Page (and not the forum) i see the same bad results, slow and low score. So this is not forum thing but a general problem.

Your Home page (www.uforeport.co.uk) has 405 http requests !!! Doesn't seem normal to me.

Also you seem to have MANY html errors (your html doesn't validate).

Unclosed elements, double "", extra divs etc etc.

View your home page source with Firefox (all problems are with RED).

example of double ""

<div class="row grid-show-popup" 
data-loader=" https://www.uforeport.co.uk/wp-content/themes/uforeport/assets/images/content-loader.gif "">

Great, I've been searching for this information for a long time

@Anonymous20,

I'm working really hard to implement the changes you have suggested and can only thank you for your help and support thus far.

Since a lot of the errors lie with the directory theme itself, it may take me awhile to clean up and repair them, I'm using FireFox Developer mode not to help with some of the bad HTML and have started making my way through changing that.

I'm also wondering whether I'd be better off on a DigitalOcean server?

@uforeport I have no idea about DigitalOcean.

But why deal with this now, i mean don't do several changes at once. Fix your problems one by one and see if a server change is also needed at the end.

@anonymous20 you're right, I am making the changes one by one, slowly over time.

However, the website speed issues, I think that's down to the hosting provides, I have tried image compression plugins and cache (disabled on forum pages) but disabled them all in the end as they made little to no difference speed wise.

I'm weighing up whether or not a server move is something I should consider on the list of things to do.

@uforeport Why do you have 400 http requests in your home page ? And 415 in your Forum page ?

This can't be normal and i doubt if it is a server/hosting problem.

Do you have an explanation ? Is it due to your theme ? Customizations ? Plugins ?

Is your DEBUG LOG clean (Important) ?

You have speed issues but i think they are related to errors and not to server slowness.