This site has recently risen way above the 3 second mark on GTMetrix after the latest Joomla updates (it is currently on v3.8.10):
https://feminapt.com
This template came with lots of javascript bells and whistles and some pretty messy css with lots of redundancy, but in the past we have been able to keep loading speeds down below 3 seconds with a combination of JCH Optimize Pro, optimizing .htaccess, etc. One of the things JCH Optimize has done for us is to allow the building of css image sprites. I never paid much attention to how this affected the GTMetrix waterfall when load times were good, but now that they're not I'm noticing this:
If I'm reading the waterfall correctly, it appears that the images are being downloaded separately but in one batch. Would not JCH create a single sprite file instead?
Here is most of the FPA output if it helps. I will post the remainder of it in a second post as it went over the forum's character limit:
Forum Post Assistant (v1.3.9) : 17th July 2018 wrote:Basic Environment :: wrote:Joomla! Instance :: Joomla! 3.8.10-Stable (Amani) 26-June-2018
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