So my longer comment can be found at

http://pastebin.com/EdMRE5fJ

And to backup those #’s I’m experiencing from desktop in Lincoln NE, I googled for “website speed test” and found that Pingdom provides a speed test. I ran a benchmark against the frontpage and Pingdom found that the front page of your site takes 6.61 seconds to load (see link below and scroll down ways).

https://tools.pingdom.com/#!/dLxhZg/https://www.dragonflydigest.com/

The site seems slightly faster than the old theme, but it might just be placebo effect.

I’m not an expert in speeding up sites, but Pingdom shows that 19 requests are happening and 36.8% of the total content being loaded is JavaScript – which can slow down rendering (javascript parsing I’ve read is slow and can block loading). I wonder if that’s the issue.

Someone above mentioned Fastest Cache as a plugin, so I read a little bit about that plugin. Looks like it offers “combine JS” and “minify html” and “css”.

https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-fastest-cache/

Might be worth a try, especially if you enable some of the enhanced features like generating static html, minify html & css, combining js.

The plugin also got a ton of really good reviews (virtually all 5 star reviews).

Hope this info help from lonely ‘ole Lincoln NE.

Really love your site. Can’t say thanks enough for you writing this every day. I visit daily :) :)

And to backup those #’s I’m experiencing from desktop in Lincoln NE, I googled for “website speed test” and found that Pingdom provides a speed test. I ran a benchmark against the frontpage and Pingdom found that the front page of your site takes 6.61 seconds to load (see link below and scroll down ways).

https://tools.pingdom.com/#!/dLxhZg/https://www.dragonflydigest.com/

The site seems slightly faster than the old theme, but it might just be placebo effect.

I’m not an expert in speeding up sites, but Pingdom shows that 19 requests are happening and 36.8% of the total content being loaded is JavaScript – which can slow down rendering (javascript parsing I’ve read is slow and can block loading). I wonder if that’s the issue.

Someone above mentioned Fastest Cache as a plugin, so I read a little bit about that plugin. Looks like it offers “combine JS” and “minify html” and “css”.

https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-fastest-cache/

Might be worth a try, especially if you enable some of the enhanced features like generating static html, minify html & css, combining js.

The plugin also got a ton of really good reviews (virtually all 5 star reviews).

Hope this info help from lonely ‘ole Lincoln NE.

Really love your site. Can’t say thanks enough for you writing this every day. I visit daily :)

Phone browsers are generally crap but I didn’t expect that much difference.

Takes a solid 7-8 seconds for the front page to load for me. And either the old design, I’d say it was roughly the same (though I never measured speed of your old design).

I’m personally used the Fastest Cache WordPress plugin with a lot of success.

(Thanks so much for this blog. It’s my favorite daily read. Seriously)

Would be great if the website was a bit more “dense” in information, so I didn’t have to scroll so much.

And to echo previous comments, on mobile – the site is painful slow to load.