Yes, you are using massive images within your slider, but are resizing them to be small. One of the images you are using is this one:
http://res.cloudinary.com/ottiya/image/upload/v1495435931/WPGA_logo_nxvrk5.png
This image is way too big, and its about 1MB in size, whereas if you optimised this image it should be maybe 300-400 pixels wide and be an optimised JPEG at no more than 50kb.
These large images add to the load time of your site. See this speed test result:
https://tools.pingdom.com/#!/djHfOW/http://ottiya.com/
You generally want to try keep your home page under 2MB in total. On this pingdom result page scroll down to ‘File Requests’, and click on ‘SIZE’ and this will show all the files/images that are loaded whenever your home page loads in descending filesize order. You should use JPEG images wherever possible (PNGs can get quite big)
Looking at that pingdom results page you should be able to reduce your home page file size by at least half by converting those PNG images to JPEG
It wasn’t taking this long previously so it’s strange, but thanks for the intro to pingdom. Yes, it’s true. I should be reducing the image sizes. I tried to do that previously, but the images were pretty blurry, which is why I resorted to png. I also tried resizing the images to around 300-400 kb (for the front slider) just now, but then went back because it looked pretty blurry. Thanks anyways!
You images shouldn’t be blurry – are you sure you are selecting the FULL fize images when inserting images into your slides, and not selecting THUMBNAIL?
