Originally Posted by Max Taxable (Post 2500670)

Fully 50% of your pageload is custom font files. Most browsers ignore the fancy fonts and display their set default, but the files still download to the registry. Most visitors will never see them, they're not worth the bandwidth they consume. And most especially, not worth nearly half of your page size in kilobytes.

Try the same test using vB default style, with all hooks off and observe the difference it makes. First Byte Time will be better as well. You are loading more than one megabyte on browsers. Not as bad as many I've seen, but still a bit fat nonetheless. Show me a fat page and I'll show you a slow page, every time.

Also, we have a Optimization Workshop Here with plenty of real-life case studies of problems such as this, solved.

I use WPT with IE10, exclusively for the full picture:

http://www.webpagetest.org/result/140604_JM_RW8/ <--- The CMS

The forum is a little more raunchy for pageload: http://www.webpagetest.org/result/140604_RW_S3B/

Originally Posted by Zachery (Post 2500695)

There is nothing wrong with webfonts, as long as you're using common, or Highly optimized fonts. my style iconic uses an optimized webfont.

You want to use something like OpenSans from google's font api, which means that there is a very good chance that the user already has this document in their browser cache. Its also fairly tiny.

Originally Posted by Max Taxable (Post 2500698)

If they comprise half of a 1 megabyte pageload, there's ALOT wrong. In this case they're not tiny, they are 50% of the entire page load. For stuff 80% of people won't even see.

If font files are 2% of the pageload or less, it's not a issue. This is 50. That's half.

Originally Posted by RichieBoy67 (Post 2500700)

Yeah but I do not believe it is fonts that are causing the browser to take that much time... It is pretty clear to me that he has a server issue or something else going on beyond fonts. :D.

Originally Posted by Max Taxable (Post 2500715)

If we pretend half a megabyte of data just loads without using any time, yeah.

The idea is to get rid of this question, when I said this:

Originally Posted by RichieBoy67 (Post 2500732)

I'm not really disagreeing you brother. While a half a meg is nothing by itself when you put a ton of them together you are looking at problems.

In regards to this slow down we really do not have enough information to troubleshoot this.

Is it slow all the time or just when a certain cron task is running?

Has anything else been changed besides moving it from one server to another?

If he is on a new dedicated server though and he just moved his site over from another one then my opinion would be the server or something related to the move.
If it was a plug in or theme it would most likely would have happened on the other server as well.

Many people grab a root server and do not realize it has to be configured.

Originally Posted by Zachery (Post 2501277)

You might have Plugins, that are not tagged to a specific product.

Originally Posted by bartman9 (Post 2501291)

Found it! There was a legacy plugin from an old version of the website that was still enabled. It really slowed down the website. With that off, my load time goes down from over 12 seconds to under 3 seconds. Now I just need to streamline the fonts and that should shed another second or two. Thanks!!