SSL Slowdown

Hi,

Is your website consistently slow loading those SSL protected pages all the time or it depends on time of day etc? If it is always slow, then I would check the plugins to see if they are causing the problem.

Otherwise, I have 2 suggestions.

1. See if you can use CloudFlare to serve SSL pages. CloudFlare has worldwide servers which can help serve your pages to users based on location which will speed up load times.

2. It would be beneficial to have your whole site SSL protected and you can do that using server config overrides. E.g., htaccess. This way, you don’t need any plugins.

Note that SSL means more work for client and server and would mean a slightly longer page load time. But not 2 minutes. Two minutes would usually result in a timeout in most server configurations.

Can you report back if any of this helps?

I tried using CloudFlare, however the site still takes upwards of a minute to load sometimes. There is nothing that is very heavy on this website. Sometimes it loads a bit faster if I hit Enter again in the URL bar. I had tried activating SSL globally earlier, and that didn’t seem to help either.

cirrus965,

Going back to your original post. Does non SSL protected sites load fast/normal?

Yes, however, I cannot access non SSL pages because for some reason my site defaults to SSL. I have no plugins that force SSL turned on, and the site URLs are all non-SSL https://.

For the whole site under SSL problem. Check for server override files like .htaccess for Apache or nginx configuration for Nginx. See if there is a configuration in there that redirects all traffic to https. If you are using CloudFlare, check there to see if there are any rules doing the redirect at the DNS level.