My pages and forms are hosted on SDrive and built with Site Designer.

The menus load slowly on all pages but especially on the page with the contact form. One reason I decided to build the site as pure html rather than Wordpress or something like it is so that pages would load more quickly. So this is not the performance I expected. Did I build this wrong or is this what I should expect from SDrive?

The contact form page is here: https://www.alabamafingerprintsolutions … ntact.html

You have built the site with Site Designer not pure HTML

If you export the form manually and place the code and all the relevant files that WFB provided then there would not be a delay in the loading speed for the FORM because it's the same domain. NOT TO SAY that the page will load any quicker because there are quite a few things to do, not only to improve loading speed, but other essential things for optimisation, (not onlt that page but the whole website)
There are multiple things you can do to help speed up page loading.

The form if I remember correctly is hosted on SDrive (??)
the website is hosted on a domain outside of SDrive??

There will obviously be some delay because the form has to be loaded from CC SDrive onto your domain, when i open that page with the form its pretty quick even on my slow internet connection,, one of the major problems I can see is that menu drop down, which seems to be the cause of any delay (oh ans also that hero image could do with optimising many many different things we as developers can and should do BEFORE even putting a website live.

The honest answer is not that you built it wrong, but you haven’t finished it for full optimisation, which probably isn't your fault either, because things like that come from experience in building websites, and more than just a basic grasp of optimising websites, I have been doing this for 30 years now and I still have to keep up to date with search engine and browsers best practices on almost a weekly basis. things change that often.

one small example

<div class="container contact-form-section">↩
<div class="container contact-form-component">↩
<div class="html-element"><script type="text/javascript" defer>document.write(unescape("%3Cscript src='http" + (document.location.protocol == 'https:' ? 's' : '') + "/www.coffeecup.com/api/sdrive/forms/form.js?name=ContactForm%26slug=380545%26height=827%26crossdomains=true%26check_safari=true%26rand=" + Math.floor( Math.random() * 1000000000 ) + "' type='text/javascript'%3E%3C/script%3E"));</script></div>↩

Error: Element script must not have attribute defer unless attribute src is also specified.

A script like that is what we call a render blocker, which means that the browser cannot continue loading the page until it's something sorted out (a very simple explanation to a more complicated reason)

Finally
There are 10 "WARNINGS" accross all your pages (some are serious enough to slow page load down

There are a further 12 less important things ranging from low to medium and high some of these also
contribute to slow loading

All of those things are up to you as a developer using 0Site Designer as opposed to one of the other applications, to identify band correct if at all possible.

I have found https://pagespeed.web.dev/ useful regarding such matters.

Frank

It's,
Thanks for the analysis.
1. Both the site and forms are hosted on SDrive, so that isn't the source of the delay you describe.
2. The defer is something I added based on another suggestion. It made no difference and I neglected to remove it.

Frank,
Thanks for the link. I'll give that a try.

I followed Wayan's advice and used Frank's link for analysis. Reducing or eliminating images made a big difference all around. The contact form is still slower to load than I would like but it's acceptable for now. I'll keep at it until there are no significant changes to make.

Thanks for the assistance.

FWIW, this site is accesible on the internet for testing but is not the "live" site for the business yet. The company name and url are changing so no customers are hitting this yet.

Are you blocking the search engines from indexing and following this testing site? Will the real website have the same page-names links images etc???

[quote= Are you blocking the search engines from indexing and following this testing site? Will the real website have the same page-names links images etc???[/quote]

Just now seeing this. Yes, I was blocking indexing and following. Some page names changed and some images changed. I did 301 redirects for every page at the old URL: speedyfingerprinting.com