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WP Blog is Very Slow to Open

by warfore
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About three weeks ago my blog started taking a long time to open (much longer than usual). I cut down on the number of plugins and updated to the latest WP version but it different make much difference. I have Bluehost and had them look at and they tweaked the htaccess and php.ini but still little improvement. Does anyone know of any other tweaks that don't involve adding a lot of code that could speed things up?:confused:
#blog #open #slow
  • Profile picture of the author Mr. Enthusiastic
    I'm also on bluehost and man, is my Wordpress blog slow today!

    A while back I added the "WP Super Cache" plugin and it helped a lot. The first time you visit a page, Wordpress works as usual, but the plugin saves a copy of the html. If you visit a page before the cache times out, the plugin reuses the saved html rather than re-running the scripts, reconnecting to the database etc.

    If you have comments enabled or other dynamic content, this means that new visitors only see the old content. My site has articles without comments, so the plug should speed things up.

    But today, even with the plugin - damn, it's slow today.

    Chris
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  • Profile picture of the author HomeComputerGames
    You may have some corrupt indexes or data in your database.

    If you can log into your PHPMyAdmin,
    select your wp database,
    on the right hand side at the bottom click "check all".
    From the drop down select "optimize table".
    This will optimize all of your tables and rebuild indexs if needed.

    You "may" see a significant improvement.

    There are more detailed functions you can try but this would be where to start if the slow down was sudden.

    Some tools for monitoring/maintaining your databases if your host allows it.
    MySQL :: MySQL GUI Tools
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  • Profile picture of the author Mr. Enthusiastic
    I just tried the optimize trick, and it doesn't seem to have made a change in performance speed.
    about 20 seconds for wp_admin to show the login form
    about 10 to 15 seconds to load any regular page

    Tried switching from atahualpa to default theme and got no change.
    I downloaded all plugins and got no change.
    Put back atahualpa, re-enabled supercache and find that after the first visit to each page, repeat visits are as snappy as I'm used to... and as I like.

    I think my next step is to turn on the other plugins, one at a time.
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  • Profile picture of the author HomeComputerGames
    Yes, some of the plug-ins can consume a lot of resources.

    A lot of times hosting can be an issue.
    A shared account will often be very slow during peak hours or if your site is becoming busy

    There are a lot of optimizations that can be done including optimizing your webserver and DB server depending upon your hosting.
    You can also track long running queries and excessive parsing to track back the problem but that is out of the scope of this post I believe.

    You might also have a look at your error log. I have seen several plug-ins reporting errors in the past.
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  • Profile picture of the author Mr. Enthusiastic
    Without my changing anything else, my site loads just fine a few hours later. I guess that my hosting provider might have oversubscribed the shared server. (I know it was the host because other sites I use continued to load at usual consistent speed throughout the whole time.)
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