[Support request] Lazyload

[Leon]

Hi Tom,

I’m approaching this time for a suggestion on lazy load. Tried almost all the famous one out there: WP rocket lazy load, Autoptimize lazy load (just added a few days ago), a3 lazy load, bj lazy load etc. Honestly speaking, none works as expected. They will either break the site or cause extra problems like even a slower loading speed.

Do you have any suggestions?

Background: My site actually loads OK for US and Canada (on average 2s), however, it’s 13s for China which is not acceptable. Image loading is a big issue so I guess Lazy load should help a lot.

I’m using GP on Kinsta, the one you suggested.

Thank you
Leon

[David]

Hi there,

have you got a CDN enabled?

[Leon]

I have tried Kinsta CDN and Keycdn. Keycdn simply wouldn’t work. It’s slower with it. Kinsta CDN will break my site somehow. I assume it can be that some css files are not loaded because some styles on my plugin Simple CSS will not render.

So I disabled CDN.

[David]

I would suggest looking at why Kinsta CDN is causing issues with the site. Is it not possible to move your Simple CSS to a child theme style sheet?

[Leon]

I tried before. But if I put the css in my child theme, the outcome looks different from that in Simple CSS plugin.

I’ll try again and update.

Thanks David.

[David]

CDN’s can be awfully tricky. Perhaps the Kinsta support can be of assistance. They’re usually pretty good.

[Leon]

Played around CDN with Kinsta support. Finally give up. Performance has only gone worse. I think I’ll stick to how it is now.

[David]

Might be worth doing some network tests to see what the issue is. Can’t unfortunately run a test from a Chinese server. I did run a GTMetrix report from Australia, and the largest delay is a 3rd party jQuery request.

[Leon]

Thank you David for the great support. Surely I’ll find a better time to figure it out when I’m more capable of js and php. Learning now. Will come back and update.

[David]

You’re welcome 🙂 In this instance you may just want to disable some plugins that could include that script to see if that helps.

[Leon]

Right David. I know that’ll help. Actually I have been trying to delete as many plugins as possible recently for the best optimizing effect. Right now I’m only using the plugins I have to use to achieve desired functions.

However, I know the number of plugins can be greatly decreased if I’m capable of writing more code to the next level. So, I’ll get there.

So good to have you all.

[David]

Sounds good to me 🙂

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