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Hello,
I have discovered that my website load time on is slow based on some user feedback. Being new-ish to this, I didn’t realize the issue until I had developed many dynamic pages that included image galleries and tables. I am working on revising each page using pagination and repeaters in order to help a bit. I’ve also turned on caching for the pages that I’ve edited so far. Any other thoughts?

My home page is www.brewtodolist.com

An example of a page that I’ve revised is www.brewtodolist.com/connecticut

An example of the “old” version that was loading even slower than these is www.brewtodolist.com/florida

I would like each state to be cohesive but I don’t want to get too deep with revising them all until I know I’ve maximized my options in order to increase speed on one. Appreciate any advice!

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Also, don’t forget that the load time is also affected by the users own internet connection and the devices that they are using to view it on it, so you need to have a good pool of reviews on different devices etc before you can just take the word of a few user reviews.

i’ve just checked your site and it comes up quickly although I am on fibre broadband, so everything is quick for my devices.

However note that if other users are using copper broadband and not fibre then obviously then they will get a slower load time, the same with mobile devices if people are using 3g still and not 4g or 4g+, then again it will be slower to load.

The same with computers and mobile devices, the older the device used to view the website on basically means the slower the website will be to load, whereas newer computers and mobile devices will obviously load websites faster as their internal workings run much faster.

Also, check what browsers people are using to view the website on too, if users have third party software on there like adblockers pr popup blockers etc, then this could be slowing down your website loading times too, or even sometimes not allowing parts of your website to actually load and be shown on your page.

The same with your website to begin with, if you are using any third party connections with your website, then remember that these also need to load up too before Wix can show your page fully.

So take note that Wix might be all set and ready to show your website, however it is waiting on a third party app to fully load before it can carry on and show the page.

It isn’t always a fault with Wix itself, a lot of times it is down to other settings that Wix can’t have any control over.

Finally, have a look at these two results from different speed checks based from Canada and the UK where you can see the difference in them from 2secs to over 10secs!

However, have a look at the results for each of them and it will show you how you can alter things, like compressing your images to make them smaller etc.
https://gtmetrix.com/reports/www.brewtodolist.com/tw0ZzHn4
https://tools.pingdom.com/#5ae78ac20d800000
https://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/insights/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.brewtodolist.com%2Fflorida

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Thank you so much for the detailed response. I definitely have been finding that the “complaints” are coming from those with slower connections and/or older browsers or devices that haven’t been updated. Hoping to just maximize what I can to hopefully “help” the experience of those users. I’ve checked a few locations locally to see for myself and I am not able to replicate the issues that are being brought up, which is reassuring, big picture.

Thank you for the links. I’ve checked pingdom and google’s pagespeed tests previously and some of the scores made me panic, particularly because I am definitely using wix for the ease of use. I am by no means an expert with coding so some of it will be over my head. I’ll continue to plug along and learn bit by bit.

Thank you again for your time! Truly appreciate it!