Slow WordPress Admin & a Slow WP Site

  • Hi, I’ve made some changes to our website over the past week and my wordpress system is just barely holding on to life support. It takes about 30-45 seconds to load a page in the admin and anywhere from 4-10 seconds to load a page from my wordpress site. For example: https://www.extraordinaryjourneys.net/blog/family-safari/

    The webpages tend to “hang” for about 4-5 seconds before it starts to load. Once it starts to load, it loads pretty quickly. I also set up a CDN yesterday and that further sped up the loading, *but only after the page stops hanging and starts to load.*

    Also, the WP admin system is painfully, gruesomely slow! One of the folks in our office seems ready to quit (mild hyperbole) over the 45 second hang time.

    Quick Notes:
    * Updated WordPress last week (doh! this never goes well)
    * Installed Pop Up Domination, a Contact Form, and vslider gallery. All of these seem legit and are fully updated. Also, when I de-activate these plugins, nothing improves.

    Thanks!

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  • You could start here:

    https://gtmetrix.com/

    Also, where is your site hosted? Might be a server issue.

    Thread Starter dhalliday

    (@dhalliday)

    Thanks for the advice. I’m hosting on Network Solutions. Not the best, but the site was at least working last week. Changing providers is definitely on my list, but I don’t think it will be a catch-all solution…

    There seem to be quite a few problems. I am including the worst 5 things from the YSlow Report (not pretty) and the Page Speed report. Anyone interested in some freelance work to fix these?

    YSLOW

    1. Add Expires headers
    F (1)
    Problem: Server
    Priority: High

    2. Make fewer HTTP requests
    F (0)
    Problem: Content
    Priority: High

    3. Use a Content Delivery Network (CDN)
    I AM USING CLOUDFLARE! IT SEEMS TO WORK!
    F (20)
    7%
    Problem: Server
    Priority: Medium

    4. Use cookie-free domains
    F (0)
    Problem: Cookie
    Priority: Low

    5. Reduce DNS lookups
    E (55)
    Problem: Content
    Priority: Low

    PAGE SPEED REPORT

    1. Defer parsing of JavaScript
    F (44)
    66%
    JS High

    2. Remove query strings from static resources
    E (50)
    91%
    Content High

    3. Specify image dimensions
    E (50)
    51%
    Images High

    4. Prefer asynchronous resources
    E (55)
    93%
    JS Medium

    5. Optimize the order of styles and scripts
    C (70)
    94%
    CSS/JS High

    THANKS!

    Sorry, but we have to close posts offering to pay – https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Forum_Welcome#Offering_to_Pay

    You might look for someone to hire here:

    https://directory.codepoet.com/

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