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I'm after a little bit (or a lot) of cc on my site. I have given it a complete overhaul and since doing so have not had much response from it by way of emails. I wanted something different, not sure if it's worked? www.chesterphotography.co.uk
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"Besides if I change it now I'll be back to square one ranking wise surely?"
That most certainly would be a consideration for sure.
There are a bunch of wordpress hosting sites out there and I've used wpengine and pagely - both of which have been good. It is PROBABLY not your host though - it is probably the amount of stuff being loaded on the page. There is a lot of javascript stuff happening with scrolling/zooming/effects and that all adds lag as well as the slideshow and the images that are loading there. Skilled WP devs will be able to figure out why that is ocurring specifically and probably be able to optmize the load time. For example, perhaps the pages is loading all the images at once before loading the remainder of the page and displaying the first image - that could be reconfigured so that one or two images load first in conjunction with the other page elements etc. - the optimization is around sequencing.
Hope that helps!
My only question, did/are you able to change password/login so he no longer can access it 'just in case'.
Link to this guy, I made need his services some day myself. Thanks.
Thanks for the link, appreciated.