Website with a very slow load time on every page - performance

http://www.puppykisses.org/
i made a WordPress page for a client, and for some reason it is taking over a minute to load the page. The only thing that I could think of being the problem is the amount of photos that he inserted into the slider up top on the home page. It looks like all those pictures need to load before anything else pops up. But then I click on Contact or any other page that has no real images to speak of, and the problem is still there. Just wondering if anyone can point me in the right direction to fix this. thanks!

Like #David said, its the initial request (the source for the page) that is giving you the issues. This means it is unlikely an issue with hosting, and most likely an issue with your code. I would go through any plugins you have installed and disable them one-by-one, and slowly start commenting out your own custom dynamic code bit by bit, till you see what is taking so incredibly long. Then rewrite/excise that code from the site.

Start With the Basics
Keep the number of WordPress plugins you use to a minimum
Get a Proper Hosting Provider
Remove Unnecessary Code From WordPress Header -> http://goo.gl/yfRcF
Use firebug and click Network tab to check loading speed for each files
Check Suggestion how to improve website speed -> http://goo.gl/FtiX3
Install WP Super Cache plugin -> http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-super-cache/
*If you use gallery try to use image thumbnail rather than load whole images size

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I have searched a lot for some tools that can help me measure how long it takes to load a website's resources. For example, how long does it take to load all CSS files, also all JS files, requests etc.
I'd like to measure these type of resources individually, so after doing site optimizations, I can do a before/after and check whether loadtime has decreased (and on what types of resources had it decreased).
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Do the following step
step 1
View your application in Mozila
step 2
Right click any where in you app then go 'inspect element with firebug'
Note-install firebug if not available in your Mozila Firefox Browser.
Step 3
you will see selection tag on bottom window
step 4
select 'Net' click on this 'enable' it if not
step 5
Reload your webpage and see .
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there are some online website that testing speed of Website and Other... . if you have a good website the first step is testing your code with w3c validator and after that solving the problems and test it on gtmatrix
and other way is downloading firebug for firefox on firebug net tab you can see the speed of your code and ...
and read about see searchengineland.com

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Correct me if I'm missing the point - and if so, can you provide a screenshot so I can get an idea of what you're really trying to show?
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Anyway, the strategy I went with was to use Javascript prefetch via jQuery. But even that wasn't enough. I had to wrap that function in a setTimeout(), but that only helped a little. I then had to fire that setTimeout() during a login form submit. It made the login form submit slightly longer, but made the website appear snappy on load.

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http://alexchen.co.nr (URL redirection)
I minified some Javascript files (I didn't compress them), and optimized some images, but it still kind of slow. I'm not very sure if I'm overloading something or its because i'm using a shared free hosting (I know, I have to get a .net or .com, but I'm having problems with my credit card right now).
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