Title: Serious loading delay…
Last modified: September 16, 2018

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# Serious loading delay…

 *  [jonathanappleseed](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jonathanappleseed/)
 * (@jonathanappleseed)
 * [7 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/serious-loading-delay/)
 * Hello,
    I’ve got age gate on a site, but it seems like it loads up last behind
   all the other page content, which means that in some cases it takes 5-10 seconds
   for it to appear. It would actually be very useful to have it load up first. 
   Am I diagnosing this properly? Is there anything that can be done about it?
 * The page I need help with: _[[log in](https://login.wordpress.org/?redirect_to=https%3A%2F%2Fwordpress.org%2Fsupport%2Ftopic%2Fserious-loading-delay%2F%3Foutput_format%3Dmd&locale=en_US)
   to see the link]_

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 *  Plugin Author [Phil](https://wordpress.org/support/users/philsbury/)
 * (@philsbury)
 * [7 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/serious-loading-delay/#post-10700407)
 * Hi [@jonathanappleseed](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jonathanappleseed/),
 * This isn’t an age gate issue as such, it’s more down to the the amount of things
   that are happening before age gate gets chance to load and to it’s stuff. The
   whole page is loading 2.3Mb of data.
 * If you have a look at a google page speed test then it’ll give some tips to fix
   some of these things. The nature of how Plugins in WordPress work (each giving
   their own css, javascript etc) can make this tricky.
    [https://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/insights/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.eagleeyeonlinedispensary.com%2F&tab=desktop](https://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/insights/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.eagleeyeonlinedispensary.com%2F&tab=desktop)
 * There are some plugins out the to optimise images (Smush, TinyPNG etc) and also
   to concatenate all the css and javascript (Merge + Minify + Refresh) which should
   aid your speed.
 * I would definitely try these things in a non-live environment.
 * You could switch to the Standard version rather than the JS version as that would
   probably be faster. But if you’re running caching that’s probably not the way
   to go.
 * Let me know if any of that doesn’t make sense.
 * Thanks
    Phil

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 * Last activity: [7 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/serious-loading-delay/#post-10700407)
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