Website speed

AHarvey · 30 Apr 2015 at 04:30

Hi all,

I'm starting a new job on Tuesday for a company that specialises in providing services for the visually impaired. Great company and staff but after having a look at their websites it is running slow, taking 15+ seconds to load the pages.

Can anyone have a look and see why?

http://www.viresourcing.co.uk/

I am guessing that it's a case of just a bad server, whois says they are with Heart Internet. Thinking of suggesting they move to Vida or TSO as they are both well suggested here. Am I correct in my assumption or can someone else see something that could be causing it?

Thanks in advance!

AHarvey · 30 Apr 2015 at 12:04

I'm not sure which plugin but that wouldn't surprise me, they are very into accessibility so probably have a few installed.

Thank you both, gives me something to look into

AHarvey · 5 May 2015 at 18:35

first day today, and despite it not being my role I've been given a booklet of accessibility issues, a lot of which I can't do anything about due to using Wordpress over a custom code. Also been asked to look at SEO.

Going to be busy reading up and testing things.

On topic, the site is just as slow in the admin panel as the actual site.

AHarvey · 7 May 2015 at 19:16

Sorry all, new job doesn't leave much time for browsing here at the moment.

The server does definitely seem to be an issue, it's from Heart internet but is a reseller account through the companies external IT contractor.

I've also suggested ditching Wordpress and starting to code a site from scratch. The issue is, there are lots of little issues that although Wordpress is very robust, seem to be a pain. things such as screen readers, CSS editing in WP is a pain as it seems to have no structure to it, lots of little things that would be easier to code from scratch.

I'd even be looking at build 3/4 versions of the site and let the user choose to start with depending on their level of visual impairment.