Hi Alastair,

Please PM me your site admin account, I will check the settings to see if I can help to improve its performance and check what makes the site performance so slow.

Gardner.

Hi there Gardner,

Thanks very much for your kind offer.

I think I may have found the issue.

I had the system cache enabled, but inside the plugin I had not enabled browser cache. I have now enabled this and the sites performance is a lot better. Not spectacular on first load up, but a lot better.

It got me wondering what effect the other elements have on site performance, gzip etc.

I also looked at a video of whether to use conservative or progressive cache. The video was a little confusing as it suggested that [given the type of site I have] firstly I might want to use Conservative cache, then in summary it said something else which suggested that Progressive cache might be better.

It was my understanding that if I want all my viewers, no matter where they are located in the world, to see the same pages, and the content of those pages did not change that much [I not a continual news feed situation] then I should use conservative cache. Alternatively, if my site was lets say, similar to a news site, such as the BBC, where it is continually changing, and does change depending upon where in the world you view it, then one should use progressive cache.

As my site is the former rather than the latter, I am using conservative cache.

I wonder if you concur with this summary of conservative and progressive cache.

Thanks again for your kind offer, but I think I may be ok now.

Kind regards

AL

Hi Alstair,

Yeah, cache is an important part of site performance, your understanding about Joomla Cache types is correct. Conservative cache is best choice with your site. Also please make sure you turn the dev mode off and turn on the CSS and JS compresstion (Extensions > template manager > open T3 BS3 Blank template style, you will see the settings in the "Global" tab.

Gardner.