Website very slow after uploading it online.

Hi there,

The server, plugins and code quality can all impact the page loading time of all or some of your content. If you need more details about that, you can use the P3 (Plugin Performance Profiler) to see what takes a lot of processing time.

I recommend you set up a caching plugin like W3 Total Cache or WP Super Cache, it will dramatically improve your page loading speed by serving cached html files of your website.

https://www.ads-software.com/plugins/p3-profiler/
https://www.ads-software.com/plugins/w3-total-cache/
https://www.ads-software.com/plugins/wp-super-cache/

Cheers!

Hello Nicolae Pop,

i tried what you suggested but the problem still remained. I installed p3-profiler, did a scan and didn’t understand much from the results. I also installed w3-total-cache, enabled caching from settings but load speed is still slow.

Try visiting your website while in Incognito or Private browsing mode (or while being logged out of WordPress). If the caching is correctly set, and subsequent visits to the same page still have a long waiting time, then the problem can be the actual hosting server.

Hello Smolikas!

I would recommend running your site through ebpagetest.org or even gtmetrix.com! ! [Link redacted] also has a speed test tool that you can use for free which can be found here: [Link redacted]

My first thought, would be to check the amount of autoloaded data within your database. Are you receiving a high TTFB (time to first byte) value when running your site through [Link redacted]

If you have access to the mysql database command line, you can run a query like the following to check on the amount of autoloaded data:SELECT LENGTH(option_value),option_name FROM wp_options WHERE autoload='yes' ORDER BY length(option_value) DESC LIMIT 20;

The above will show you the top 20 rows in the wp_options table with the highest amount of autoloaded data which is loaded prior to the page loading and could indeed be the issue. Other times, I have seen plugins create issues with page loads due to long/inefficient queries. You can also try to set your theme to default and check the load times with all plugins active but your theme set to default. If the time has still not improved, you will likely want to begin disabling plugins in groups of 3 to narrow down the culprit.

As a friendly trick, when you are testing the site speed on [Link redacted], you may notice that your site seems to get faster after repetitive tests. Don’t be fooled! This is due to caching and you will want to append a random query string to the end of the domain such as the following: /?abc , where abc changes after every test. This will force the results to not be cached and you will continuously obtain accurate readings.

Looking forward to your reply!
Cheers!

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Methodology Suggested
1. DISABLE ALL PLUGINS
Then Check Site Speed
2. Change Theme
Then Check Site Speed
3.Talk to Web Hosting Customer Care
for Poor Server Speed

My Analysis
GTMETRIX SCORE
is showing 28 SECONDS
You Have UPLOADED IMAGES of 1 MB(MEGABYTE) PLEASE COMRESS THE IMAGE BEFORE UPLOADING
USE WP SMUSH or IMAGIFY
Follow Speed Up WordPress Guide