Endless WordPress Site Problems

  • I am reaching out to this awesome WordPress community in the hopes that someone could guide me in what seems to be an endless road of problems.
    I have now had to re-install and rebuild my entire site due to errors and problems. On the latest version, I again a, having many many problems. As I am a complete novice to WordPress, none of the very complicated responses on similar topics have helped.
    I;ve reduced my site to the bare minimum plugins, reduced images to the bare-bones and installed every manner of compression plugin and also changed to a Cloudflare account. With all of this, my page still loads extremely slowly with multiple errors. Even my dashboard page loads extremely slowly. I have not got a clue as to where to start with or how to resolve the issues.
    This is the latest GTMetrix report as provided by my domain provider. https://gtmetrix.com/reports/adventurearckids.com/hRzSxduk/
    Really hoping someone could be so kind and assist a new user.
    Thanking you in advance.

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  • With all of this, my page still loads extremely slowly with multiple errors.

    If you can share the specific error(s) you’re seeing, perhaps we could help you resolve them… or, at the very least, point you to the right place to go for help if the problem relates to a commercial product you’re using.

    As for page speed, there are a whole lot of factors that can affect a site’s performance. The most important, and that one that’s unfortunately often overlooked, is the very server hosting the site.

    Compare this to a car. All the tuning you can do to your car’s engine can certainly help performance. Nut no amount of tuning is going to help if the engine itself is underpowered.

    Your Gmetrix report shows 9.1 seconds initial response time. That could point to an underpowered, overloaded, or unoptimized server.

    installed every manner of compression plugin and also changed to a Cloudflare account.

    Blindly installing these “optimization” plugins can sometimes do more harm than good. I’ve had situations where even full-page Cloudflare caching sped a site up in other regions but slowed the site down significantly in the location where the client cared about.

    SUGGESTIONS:

    If you’re using managed WordPress hosting, kindly get your host to look into why your site has such a high initial response time.

    If you’re using traditional shared hosting or you’re using a self-managed VPS or cloud server, I’ll advise you to either migrate to a more performant managed hosting… OR hire a website optimization expert to actually login to your site to see where the real bottleneck is and help you resolve it.

    Good luck!

    The site looks pretty clean, it seems to be the server iteself.
    Disable CloudFlare so you can load the site from the server and get some hosting data.
    If your host is cheap, then that could be one of the reasons.

    Thread Starter adventurearckids

    (@adventurearckids)

    I’ve approached my hosting provider and they have sent me this: https://gtmetrix.com/reports/adventurearckids.com/J7FL5ozx/
    They claim it shows that their server is providing sufficient resources to allow fast loading of my site and that the slow load time is due to my errors. But, I wouldn’t know if this report is an indication of my problem or theirs? (Again, very new to all this)

    But, I wouldn’t know if this report is an indication of my problem or theirs?

    Continuing my car analogy, that’s like saying: “See how fast this empty truck is going? It means it has enough power to pull your 100-ton load at the same speed!” ??

    No, it doesn’t really say much.

    But then again, what “errors” are you seeing?

    Thread Starter adventurearckids

    (@adventurearckids)

    Well I’m getting an error when trying to use a new theme that something has gone wrong and I need to wait a minute. And if I try to activate a new theme there is an error saying “There is a critical error with this website”
    But my main concerns really are the items listed in the GTMetrix report. I don’t know where to start on them or how. If it’s giving me a “D” rating, then I want to fix it.

    Lol, what host is this?
    This is performance report for loading a the info file
    https://gtmetrix.com/reports/adventurearckids.com/J7FL5ozx/
    Also, the phpinfo() does not display hardware config, just php config.

    Yes, there is a lot of memory being allocated to the php functions.

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