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any experts in speeding up Wordpress sites?

by Frankie B Frank
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I might be looking for someone to look at a Wordpress site. It is not a big blog, the homepage loads fine but some other pages and archives are mega slow (sometimes pages will not load).

Google pagespeed says "the website specified cannot be reached" for internal pages....however sometimes (rarely) they get 86; its either "all or nothing"!

Or does this sound more like a server issue?!

Any advice/thoughts appreciated!

PS. w3 cache installed & just setup maxCDN
#experts #sites #speeding #wordpress
  • Profile picture of the author metallic07039
    I would suggest Googling "APC for Apache." I had load speed issues on my site too and it helped to solve the issue greatly.
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  • Profile picture of the author jaimegm
    In your case I would try a different server.
    Where is your server located?, Where are you located? this is important
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  • Profile picture of the author onlinecasinodeck
    Originally Posted by spiderhouse View Post

    I might be looking for someone to look at a Wordpress site. It is not a big blog, the homepage loads fine but some other pages and archives are mega slow (sometimes pages will not load).

    Google pagespeed says "the website specified cannot be reached" for internal pages....however sometimes (rarely) they get 86; its either "all or nothing"!

    Or does this sound more like a server issue?!

    Any advice/thoughts appreciated!

    PS. w3 cache installed & just setup maxCDN
    You can reduce your page loading if your use a lighter themes, avoiding heavy Images such as Jpeg and flash video addons.
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  • Profile picture of the author Frankie B Frank
    thanks for the response - it's a UK host Heart Internet. They justgot back to me & said

    "The page runs slowly because one of your scripts is trying to open a loop-back connection to the same server where the script is running from. These connections are prohibited on our systems and so will be causing this part of the script to time out.

    Ideally the script should be accessing this local file through a local path, rather than going through the internet."

    However I'm not sure how to figure out / isolate what the "loop back connection" is....probably a plugin.

    Any ideas? (& thanks!)
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  • Profile picture of the author mywebwork
    This being the case the first thing I would do is to deactivate all of your plugins and see if the site speeds up - I'm assuming that you only have WordPress installed with plugins and not an additional stand-alone script?

    If the site now loads correctly start re-activating your plugins one by one. Eventually you should run across the one that causes the problem.

    As a precaution always do a full site backup before you start messing around with it!

    Bill
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  • Profile picture of the author Frankie B Frank
    cheers Bill - going to give that a try tomoz....not sure if it maybe is something to do with backupbuddy (it its the only thing I've found through research so far):

    BackupBuddy: Frequent Support Issues - IThemes Codex

    Solution: Add define('ALTERNATE_WP_CRON', true); to your wp-config.php

    We did this...so perhaps that is it!

    thanks
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  • Profile picture of the author mywebwork
    If you did this you should be aware that there is an issue with using ALTERNATE_WP_CRON with the latest version of WordPress:

    #18099 (cron error with ALTERNATE_WP_CRON set to true)

    Sounds like you are on the right track, good luck with the troubleshooting!

    Bill
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    • Profile picture of the author avatar9812
      Try to switch to the basic theme and try one subpage, could be the heavy javascript ( like jQuery ) used by some of the themes.
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  • Profile picture of the author AdWorkMedia
    Try placing JavaScript in the footer instead of header, using APC cache, and gzip compressing your site. If you are using W3, then you can use it to accomplish most of this.
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  • Profile picture of the author unnatural
    Every site is different when optimizing for speed, but there are some good general guidelines to follow.

    1) Optimize images.
    2) Minify your JS and CSS files (remove white space and unnecessary code in scripts)
    3) Server response time (consider edge servers or CDN's).
    4) Move non-crucial Javascript to the footer.
    5) Structure your site so the important elements load first (gives the illusion of loading fast to users).
    6) Optimize database queries and use caching.
    7) Minimize the number of requests (consider using sprites for images etc.)
    8) Use local file paths.

    There's a few other methods but they usually aren't necessary unless your running a very high traffic website.
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  • Profile picture of the author Frankie B Frank
    update;
    it was the theme! Argh…nearly the last place I looked as it was Thesis and did not think anything of it….then I remembered someone had done some "work" for me.


    *eek*


    thanks peeps!
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