Question

On my WordPress site I recently saw a problem! My site is loading ver, very slow! I've checked it on https://tools.pingdom.com/ and https://gtmetrix.com/ and the problem seems to be in the redirects...

These speed evaluating tools says: Remove the following redirect chain if possible - meaning that the problem is in the Minimize redirects

Here is the problem:

Remove the following redirect chain if possible:

http://adadvisor.net/adscores/r.pixel?sid=9212270798
http://d.agkn.com/pixel/6640/?che=1426605244&sk=004003015360002504552&lr=&l0=http://www.bizographics.com/collect/?fmt…
http://www.bizographics.com/collect/?fmt=gif&url=superfile.neustar.com&pid=2087&ibe=
http://ib.adnxs.com/getuid?http%3A%2F%2Fwww.linkedin.com%2Fcsp%2Fdtag%3Fp%3D9%26_x%3D%252526fmt%25253Dgif%252526opid%…
http://ib.adnxs.com/bounce?%2Fgetuid%3Fhttp%253A%252F%252Fwww.linkedin.com%252Fcsp%252Fdtag%253Fp%253D9%2526_x%253D%2…
http://www.linkedin.com/csp/dtag?p=9&_x=%2526fmt%253Dgif%2526opid%253D2087%2526url%253Dsuperfile.neustar.com%2526ibe%…
https://www.linkedin.com/csp/dtag?p=9&_x=%2526fmt%253Dgif%2526opid%253D2087%2526url%253Dsuperfile.neustar.com%2526ibe…
https://www.bizographics.com/collect/?pid=6883&fmt=gif&fmt=gif&opid=2087&url=superfile.neustar.com&ibe=&3pc=true&an_u…
https://secure.adnxs.com/seg?t=2&add=15492,2155680,2155685,2156197,53969,53971&redir=https%3A%2F%2Fsecure.adnxs.com%2…
https://secure.adnxs.com/seg?add=&add_code=superfile_neustar_com,neustar_com&member=232&redir=https%3A%2F%2Fimp2.bizo…
https://imp2.bizographics.com/l?redirect_url=https%3A%2F%2Fcm.g.doubleclick.net%2Fpixel%3Fgoogle_nid%3Dbizo_bk_cm%26g…
https://cm.g.doubleclick.net/pixel?google_nid=bizo_bk_cm&google_cm
https://cm.g.doubleclick.net/pixel?google_nid=bizo_bk_cm&google_cm=&google_tc=
https://imp2.bizographics.com/m/1640?google_gid=CAESEAPG8AsA4n6E0dYrTt-RU8Y&google_cver=1
Remove the following redirect chain if possible:

http://b.scorecardresearch.com/b?c1=7&c2=8097938&rn=1198891706&c7=http%3A%2F%2Fseg.sharethis.com%2FgetSegment.php%3Fp…
http://b.scorecardresearch.com/b2?c1=7&c2=8097938&rn=1198891706&c7=http%3A%2F%2Fseg.sharethis.com%2FgetSegment.php%3F…
Remove the following redirect chain if possible:

http://map.media6degrees.com/orbserv/hbpix?pixId=23460&pcv=46
http://map.media6degrees.com/orbserv/hbpix?pixId=23460&pcv=46&cckz=true
Remove the following redirect chain if possible:

http://p.nexac.com/e/sr/a-1548/s-3271/s-3271.xgi
http://p.nexac.com/e/sr/a-1548/s-3271/s-3271.xgi?rd=Y

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All these pixel sized images (1 px.) are driving me crazy! Where are they coming from????  I've tried to deactive some plugins - uninstalled W3 Total Cache, and still do not know what is the correct answer! :-(

I'VE SEARCHED A LOT HOW TO SOLVE IT - BUT STILL NO LUCK!

PLEASE HELP!

Thank you, Matthew

Answer 1

Check your WordPress theme. Usually if the problem is NOT within a plugin, then some core function of the theme itself might cause these redirects.

I used to have this problem a while ago and the solution was:

I've checked in the Editor in the WordPress dashboard all the .php files, and in the header.php file there was one line:

<script type="text/javascript" src="http://w.sharethis.com/button/buttons.js"></script>

So - the core function of the WP theme (using sharethis.com JavaScript - .js file) for sharing the content (on Facebook, Twitter, Google+) was causing all these redirects. I simply removed this line:

<script type="text/javascript" src="http://w.sharethis.com/button/buttons.js"></script>

and all the redirects went away! :-) The site is loading much, much faster now!

Hope that helps! Cheers, Alex

Comments

THANK YOU! THAT REALLY WORKS! THAT IS THE SOLUTION!!!!! :-)))))))))))))))