Speeding up page load times

  • Hi there,
    I’m a new WordPress user – made the jump from MT a few weeks ago. So far I just love it and would never turn back!
    My site is at https://www.hoydnewsnetwork.com
    My only concern is that it seems to take a little while to load everything. The first post pops up immediately, but then all the others take a bit of time and then the side menus come up. Is there anything I can do to speed this up. I’ve tried the compression method mentioned on this forum but that just makes everything slow to display.
    I know part of the problem is that it’s running on a 300Mhz computer that I’ve set up as a dedicated web server. I’m running Linux but I’m wondering if there are perhaps processes running that I don’t need for the web server to be running and that might be part of the reason for the slow times. It has 128MB of ram which I think should be plenty for something like this.
    Any other suggestions are much appreciated!
    Hoyd

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  • This may or may not help.
    Put this code at the base of your page, inside the </body> tag.
    It will show you the queries and the time it took to generate your page.
    Might highlight something ?
    <p class="credit"><?php echo $wpdb->num_queries; ?> queries. <?php timer_stop(1); ?> seconds. <cite><?php echo sprintf(__("Powered by WordPress"), __("Powered by WordPress, state-of-the-art semantic personal publishing platform.")); ?></cite>
    I don’t know if the ‘Dots’ CSS has credit styled though – never used it.

    Thread Starter hoyd

    (@hoyd)

    19 queries. 7.864 seconds.
    It’s not showing up on the site, but it’s in the HTML. Does that mean anything to you as far as fast or slow or what I can do to speed things up?
    Thanks for your help so far!

    Queries is good and low, but the time is quite long. I just refreshed my page and got 80 queries in 1.141
    I don’t know how to go about tracking things down though, but this thread may be of interest https://www.ads-software.com/support/3/10129

    Is the web server also the mySQL server?
    I’m wondering if the combination of running web services and the mySQL at the same time is taxing the 128MB and 300MHz….
    TG

    Thread Starter hoyd

    (@hoyd)

    Everything is on the same server so I guess that could be it. I was hoping that it would be good enough though as I have heard these system requirements should be fine. I guess now I should really focus on my server and how to speed that up then as it doesn’t sound like it’s a WordPress issue at all. I wasn’t really expecting that it was a WordPress issue, but I thought I would ask for ideas here.
    If anyone has any other suggestions on the server situation, let me know.

    Thread Starter hoyd

    (@hoyd)

    Alright… so I’m starting to think that this is a WordPress problem again with a weird query or something going on. I run another site on the same server using mysql and running forum software and those pages load just fine. When I look at those, my server hits a maximum of 18% for CPU use with the norm being around 10%. When I try and load my WordPress page however, it hits 95% for CPU use. So, I’m beginning to think that perhaps there is something weird with what my index.php is calling.
    Any suggestions?

    Is it a plug in ?

    Thread Starter hoyd

    (@hoyd)

    Good call! The only one I had ‘Activated’ was MarkDown which I didn’t think would affect anything since I thought it was only for posting. However, now that I’ve deactivated it, things are flying again!
    Thanks!

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