# How to increase site speed

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**Category:** Self-hosting\
**Created:** [April 11, 2017, 4:42pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-increase-site-speed/60791 "2017-04-11T16:42:21Z")\
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**Author:** ![EducatorWaji](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/educatorwaji/32/66699_2.png) [@EducatorWaji](https://meta.discourse.org/u/EducatorWaji)\
**Post date:** [April 17, 2017, 4:40pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-increase-site-speed/60791/14 "2017-04-17T16:40:46Z")

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Dear Padpors,

I have just tried to debunk the the information. One of the reasons behind the large homepage loading size may be due to the huge numbers of photos in the homepage.

 ![](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/6/a/6aae110760f29dfc5cca4208d6199059653e1367.png)

Whooping high number of images, which are scaled and non scaled in your website. That’s the reason of large size

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