Site speed dramatically slower

It might have been the time you ran the test.

I got 4.0 seconds this time: https://gtmetrix.com/reports/www.coastandco.com.au/SNZMmn0e

And, https://www.webpagetest.org/result/191202_JN_b4d8be83526006a083e53c9860990d16/ reports 2.9 seconds.

Hi James,

Thanks for checking that – it seems like the issues have just resolved.

The initial loading speed is great now but still some slow responses between internal pages but I guess I’ll take what I can get.

Cheers,

BW

Loading the homepage is extremely quick but visiting internal pages is still taking a long time. Do you have any idea why that might be?

Are you using a caching plugin or server-side caching system? It could be that your cache just needs to rebuild, which will happen the first time each page is viewed.

You had to repopulate that proxy server out front on most Bluehost accounts. After the first visit that should be fine and settle down nicely between the proxy box and the browser caches.

Sometimes the speed tests can be off due to where the proxies, caches, and such are in the life cycle of the pages. Run them several times if the first answer seems wrong or surprising.

Thanks @macmanx & @jnashhawkins.

Am I correct in assuming that every user will have a slow first visit, or is it just the first visit that will settle it down for all future users?

For the most part, once the proxy has started caching, your visitors will get the faster copy from there.

What you see in the metrics tests are basically the same as what a new visitor sees. Their (a visitor on a browser’s) next visit may be slightly faster than the first as their browser will cache also.

So, no, the visitors won’t see any further slow down once the site is visited by anyone else.

Trust the hardware most of the time.

• This reply was modified 4 years, 12 months ago by JNashHawkins.

Excellent, thank you both for your help!

I have several pages on WordPress 5.3, too which are significant slower then before.
Even with all plugins deactived and fresh install of 5.3 (no upgrade from older wp versions), MySql 5.7 and PHP 7.3 I have pagespeeds of 5-10 seconds on first load of content.
Mostly i use the Divi-Theme from Elegant Themes and yes, I know its quite loaded with scripts but even a other fresh site with only a few plugins as yoast, updraft and other often used plugins with DEFAULT twentytwenty theme loads far to slow.
And it seems independent from the hosting provider.

Someone else seeing this behaviour?

• This reply was modified 4 years, 11 months ago by Everseen.