I've just spent a few hours at the poor performance of my website,
www.tallandtrue.com.au
I use JCH Optimize and Jot Cache on the website and in the past, I've been able to tweak it to perform reasonably well based on GTmetrix and Google PageSpeed testing.
But lately, I've had problems, with JCH Optimize causing AddThis social share buttons to disappear and I've had to keep winding it down and as I've done that, I've noticed the performance has gone pear-shaped.
When I confirmed this with GTmetrix today its report included suggestions to remove a whole lot of "redirect chains". I had no idea what was causing them ... until I realised the redirect chains only occurred on pages where Disqus was enabled for comments. Then I found the following post on the Disqus forum:
disqus.com/home/discussion/channel-discu...dus_and_many_others/
Sure enough, I disabled Disqus and the redirect chains disappeared and the performance improved! Now I need to follow the instructions in the post to see if I can re-enable Disqus and configure to stop causing the redirect chains.
I thought I'd share this with the Joomla forum in the hope that it helps someone else.
Regards,
Robertf