Improving Website Loading Times

[duncangallagher]

Opening an issue for this to help track notes and measures taken.

The general loading speed for many of the ArtSciLab websites is pretty slow. Looking in to what can be done to speed things up.

[duncangallagher]

A couple Wordpress plugins and a couple potential CDN options (although one of them is very expensive). I haven't tried any of these out yet, but just wanted to put them here to keep track of them.

• WP Optimize , WP-DBManager, and W3 Total Cache

• Free CDN and MaxCDN

[magicspacekiwi]

Using a CDN is a potential option, although much of our performance problem is due to an overloaded web server. I've created #72 to discuss our options.

If we do decide to use a CDN in conjunction with the new server, please make use of Subresource Integrity directives.