What can i delete to make things run faster?

[Max Taxable]

Originally Posted by DreadsUK

I'm wondering how to lighten our load by deleting all the fancy crap from our site. I'm wondering what can be deleted and what needs to stay. I've started with a few plug ins. Will simply uninstalling them do the trick?

What else can i do to make it less server intensive and ue less memory?

Ideally, i'd just like to go back to a vert basic forum format

I remember you and I having a somewhat long discussion about this very thing, some time back. I gave you many suggestions for speeding up your site.

When fully 35% of your page load bytes are font files - which most browsers won't render anyway but still download - I start looking there for trimming fat.

Here's a detailed analysis of your splash page: http://www.webpagetest.org/result/150225_CW_10WG/

You can shave 250kb off this page just by optimizing your images. Will help your speed alot, just with that.

Here's detailed analysis of your forum, where most of your users go: http://www.webpagetest.org/result/150225_M8_110N/

The problems with the forum appear to be mostly hosting related. The forum itself isn't too fat, and doesn't have a egregious number of calls, and I see you did optimize your images here - should be loading ALOT faster than 13 seconds.

The splash page - you understand that's not helpful at all for your SEO? Google hates slow, fat pages.