godaddy hosting speed wordpress

  • I have a wordpress webpage (www.livethelanguage.cn) that gets about 50 hits a day. It used to be hosted on the godaddy US two years ago and the speed was ok. We then moved it to the Singapore server for various reasons, but it turned out it was quite slow there. So we changed it back to the US server and now it is INCREDIBLY slow (never less than 18 seconds load time).

    I called godaddy and they said that everything is fine and normal and its probably our site thats slow.
    That just doesnt make sense because it was much faster (not fast, but faster) on another server of theirs (when accessed from the US, EU or any other location). They suggested using the supercache tool, which we did and it didnt help at all. They said there are several process we are using in wordpress that slow down the site, we tried turning them off but it had no effect on the speed.

    Then they offer buying a dedicated server – I get the feeling they are trying to screw us.

    Does anyone 1) know why this is the case 2) know how to solve this (or can suggest another better hosting provider with a good speed/price/customer service ratio)?

    All help appreciated!
    thanks.

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  • Perhaps over the years, you website may have expanded and therefore it may cause the site to load slower or perhaps godaddy might want to screw you over. Recommending a hosting provider i think is strictly prohibited as it might get a little spammy over here though. Perhaps you can check out my gravatar and have a look at our site if you are interested

    Well, WordPress themselves recommend several here, and I’ve had experience with them all through various client installs. They all seem to do a pretty good job, though ymmv.

    One thing is for sure, GoDaddy hosting is to be avoided like the plague. I’ve moved several sites from GD to different hosting plans, and seen immediate speed increases. I also have two sites of my own on GoDaddy, and they are suuuuuuuper slow.

    I’d switch.

    Slow loading could be a page structure, a plugin, broken links, large or un-optimised images etc: they can all slow a website down.

    There are several tools to look at the bottlenecks, a number of different cache plugins as well.

    Looking at Pingdom Tools the inital load of the page is the problem.
    There are a number of Validation Errors, stripping the comments for the loaded css would help these.

    No pages load fast and looking at the page source, it loads a lot of scripts and a very large block of styles in the header <head></head>, see if you can move any to the footer, and the styles into a stylesheet.

    Loose the flash header for a static optimized image, or an image slider.

    It is a pretty basic theme which could be created a lot better quite easy, so I would create a copy of the website and try a different theme.

    David

    Also the theme is Atahualpa they have a support forum that may be able to help.

    I.M.H.O. Changing Hosts is not the real Issue.

    HTH

    David

    GoDaddy is known for cramming many sites on a server. It looks as though there are quite a few other sites on the same server as you. I’m pretty sure DomainTools is not up to date, but it lists quite a few sites on there with you. And by quite a few, I mean a lot.

    Looking at Pingdom Tools which shows the site is taking 23 seconds of the load time, before it starts to load the other elements.

    (www.livethelanguage.cn) is redirected after 7 seconds to (livethelanguage.cn) which takes 17 seconds to load, not my skill area, but that seems to be the bottleneck?

    Not sure if it is a .htaccess, Cname or do you have the redirection plugin active or in the plugins folder, I did have trouble with the plugin a long while ago?

    EDIT:
    I downloaded the page source and saved it as testwebsite.html file, running this from my PC the page loads fast, so retreiving the scripts and styles from the server is not the issue, it is the html page rendering and generation that is the issue.

    HTH

    David

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