My website takes time to start loading, other websites do not?

Fineus_

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Hi all,

I've noticed that my own website takes some time to *start* loading on any web browser, where other websites do not.

What I mean by that is that if I open a new tab and type in Google.com - it will load almost instantly (same for other websites, large and small).

If I do this with my own website however - which has a decent enough host - the 'loading' symbol will display on the new tab for a few seconds before any loading of the page actually seems to occur. This happens with Chrome, Edge, Firefox...

(My website is http://alexaveryphotography.co.uk/ - if anyone wants to check).

It's almost as though that initial 'load' request is taking time to be processed - where it's near instant on other sites.

Does anyone have any ideas why this might be?
 
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have a read here might have some useful ideas

http://learntocodewith.me/posts/make-your-website-fast/

and not really my thing but guess the size/resolution of your background image may be relevant

Fineus_

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Thanks - I've had a look and I think it has something to do with DNS Reverse Lookups or similar - I might try and optimise the images but it's the initial loading that is actually longer!