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Originally Posted by everythingsablur
I've had a few clients host sites at Bluehost, and to be quite honest, I've never really been all that happy with them. All of their sites are similarly slow to respond, though one is compounded by the complex WordPress setup we needed to implement (basically loads 5 sites at once, basically every time you navigate around). Bluehost is cheap though, but in a way you get what you pay for. I wouldn't say performance is horrible on your site, but sure, it isn't "instant". It's acceptable, but could be better. You might want to look into your DNS routing to see if it's making some unnecessary hops, but I'd guess it's probably just being on a shared Bluehost WP server.
Optimize is a fairly ambiguous term. Would help if they were more specific. You could do several things, like reduce the file sizes of your images (increase compression, or reduce color depth). Consider tweaking your layout a little to have fewer images and less widgets perhaps. You coudl also look into changing the way the page loads to rely on caching more since you are likely calling the same JavaScript objects a lot.
Try running your site through one (or more) of the dozens of web page analyzer tools to get some feedback on it. Here's a quick analysis from Google Developer Tools: https://developers.google.com/speed/...2F&tab=desktop
As for your YouTube embed sizing issue, it looks like the width and height of your embed are wrong. Not sure if you entered that or if your WP changed it to be the max width of your content column, but it is listed in the code as 640x390, when YouTube's default embed code for that video is 560x315 (which is a proper 16:9 aspect ratio). Try changing it by hand and see if that works. |
I thought I'd follow up on this. Turned out Kameleon, while appearing fancy, was apparently a mess of a theme. It was heavily dependent on several plugins, and nothing seemed to play nice with anything else. So I simply started over with an entirely different theme, and the site is MUCH faster now. It also solved some of my other issues, such as my YouTube embed size issue
