Very slow wordpress site (UK)

  • Recently uploaded my wordpress child theme of 2012 to Easyspace with anew account and using their one-click install.

    The site is https://www.olleydesign.com

    It loads painfully slowly (I did a “webpagetest” and it scored between 55-70/100 depending on which page I tested).

    I don’t really understand what Easyspace have responded with…

    “I am not able to see any slow loading , pages load within a second for me but we are aware that some of our other servers have been attacked by the WordPress botnets the news has been reporting recently. WordPress recommend that you , firstly , fully upgrade your site’s installation to the latest version and use the two securtiy checks option. They also recommend that you use an account which is not called admin. This should help to resolve the issue.”

    Are I being brushed off or I do I need to reinstall everything changing admin etc and why didn’t they warn of this on their site?

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  • Andrew Nevins

    (@anevins)

    WCLDN 2018 Contributor | Volunteer support

    I had not experienced any loading problems when I accessed your site.

    It is true that recently there have been waves of spam attacks that slow down servers, which would result in every website on the server responding slower than usual.

    You ought to ask them whether you can receive some compensation ??

    Thread Starter sioy

    (@sioy)

    Andrew thanks very much for your swift reply…

    I’ve got almost same site (but not wordpress) running on a .co.uk domain, I’d be really interested to hear if you think it is faster loading…

    non-wordpress: https://www.olleydesign.co.uk

    wordpress: https://www.olleydesign.com

    Andrew Nevins

    (@anevins)

    WCLDN 2018 Contributor | Volunteer support

    The wordpress one took about 1 second more to load. The non-wordpress one loaded instantly.

    Both checked on another machine than when I checked an hour ago.

    I have checked your site as well and ran some tests. Try the following

    – Enabled compression
    – Minify your scripts

    Your score was a 32 out of a 100 for page load time but it loaded extremely fast for me so i am not sure why it received such a low score

    the same problem happening to me and insight page speed tool saying to me to enable compression. but as a newbie i really dont know how to do it effectively. hoping your answer

    try adding this to your htaccess file

    # compress text, html, javascript, css, xml:
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/plain
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/html
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/xml
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/css
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/xml
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/xhtml+xml
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/rss+xml
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/javascript
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/x-javascript
    Thread Starter sioy

    (@sioy)

    Thanks Guys, 1 second per page is long time I think, yes enabling compression and minifying scripts I will have to learn about these – any tips?

    Thread Starter sioy

    (@sioy)

    This is what now is in my htaccess file… hope I put the code in right place?

    # BEGIN WordPress
    <IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
    RewriteEngine On
    RewriteBase /
    RewriteRule ^index\.php$ – [L]
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
    RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
    </IfModule>

    # compress text, html, javascript, css, xml:
    AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/plain
    AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/html
    AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/xml
    AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/css
    AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/xml
    AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/xhtml+xml
    AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/rss+xml
    AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/javascript
    AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/x-javascript

    # END WordPress

    thx justin

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