TheSeoGuy

Thanks Jeff, much appreciated

Hi Jeff

No problem, we all need weekends off!

At the moment, I’ve “Paused” Cloudflare, and kept BBQ active.
That resolves the 522 Error issues for Google

I was wondering if the Pro version of BBQ – which I think allows whitelisting IP addresses – might solve the problem.

What do you think?

Cheers
Ben

I have W3 Total Cache running, and there is a setting as follows:
Cache SSL (https) requests: Cache SSL requests (uniquely) for improved performance

*DISABLING that actually improved performance by 2 seconds!!! ??

Unfortunately, that made no difference to the 3 second lag that Ninja WAF is adding since implementing HTTPS.

The https://www.theseoguy.co.nz site is in NZ, testing as follows;
Gtmetrix.com – Sydney – 5.4 seconds with WAF, 1.8 seconds if disabled
Pingdom.com – Melbourne – 3.4 seconds with WAF, 991ms seconds if disabled

I’ve little previous experience of adding SSL on a WordPress site but the test at https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/ gives the site an “A” rating…

Setting the HTTPS filtering to off made no discernible difference at all.

Cloudflare – I paused it, but I am not sure how long it takes for the impact of that change to come into effect. In any event, that should make things slower, given that the caching and global content distribution is supposed to be the big benefit of Cloudflare….

Log files – nothing stands out there…

Thanks for the prompt response.

I have just emailed the wp-export file to you.

HTTP Server: Apache/2.2.29 (Unix) mod_ssl/2.2.29 OpenSSL/0.9.8e-fips-rhel5 mod_bwlimited/1.4

PHP: 5.4.38
SERVER API: CGI/FastCGI

Re disabling Cloudflare – no, not yet. Did you mean “Pause it – will temporarily deactivate CloudFlare for your domain” or reset the DNS Records back to the original settings?

Kind regards
Ben

I have the same problem on https://www.gt-rider.com/motorcycles-in-thailand/motorcycle-insurance-cover – and all other forms on the site. It had previously been working fine. Problem occurs in IE8 and Firefox. Site is on WP 2.8.4. I have disabled all plugins, same result.

Nope – that “broke” the site! And it looks more like a Translation system, not either English OR Thai ??

Cheers

Ben

Addendum: Theme is WordPress default – Kubrick – but when i change it to a different theme, it all works as it should!!!

So that’s what i’m gonna do… ??