joomla slow to load - are there any fixes

[FDigital01]

despite enabling cache, gzip, add expires, compressing javascript and css joomla still loads very slowly > 3 seconds - way too slow. has anyone managed to get a joomla site with video, images, etc. to load in 1 -2 seconds?

[jackrabbit]

How are you measuring the speed? If your page has lots of items, it does not matter how optimized it is, every item still has to be downloaded, along with other factors. Are you loading many fonts? Do you depend on many external script libraries?

[Webdongle]

Also depends on the speed of your Host's server. The better the server the fast load time for the site.

[florinf]

Or you can use cloudflare reverse proxy to accelerate content loading and improve security to you website.

[FDigital01]

i have tried different servers and cloudflare but j3 still loads very slowly.

[vinu38]

Better to run your website on dedicated or VPS servers. Try to use CSS sprites, lower JS overlapping. Use inspect element console setion to debug your website. Use pingdom tools to check website response time.

[FDigital01]

i have found that within the template I am using there is the ability to enable the google cnd to load javascript. this has helped but is sometimes tricky when used with jch optimizer.

[chinonet]

Try disable some extensions or modulles (maybe some are taking to much) use CDN (like cloudflare) and check images sizes.

Also can be a host problems...

Cloudflare make my site much faster

[stormbyte]

You can try JCH optimize (be carefull, 4.2.0 is working fine but latest release broke my website) or JBetolo...

Check if your cache is activated from global configuration. You can integrate JOTCACHE it's really efficient

It's great to check timeline of loading components using gtmetrix for example. You can then analyse if slow part is coming from DNS resolution, loading time, waiting for DOM, etc.
good luck!