Extremely slow loading website AND admin

  • Hi everyone,

    I installed WP on my domain a few weeks ago and right from the very start it’s been running extremely slow (takes about 5 Mississippi seconds to load). My admin panel runs just as slow. I’ve tried it on several different computers and networks and still slow, and my hosting provider (DreamHost) says it’s not them. They switched me to a different server with no change.

    Keep in mind at this point I have one theme installed (Contango) and six plug-ins (Askimet, Hello Dolly, Hotfix, Jetpack by WordPress, Ultimate Coming Soon Page, and WP Super Cache – all but the Ultimate Coming Soon Page are disabled). I just got this started so I don’t have a bunch of content clogging things up.

    Website: https://hazelandroman.com/

    Any ideas? Thanks in advance.

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  • lisa

    (@contentiskey)

    have you tried any speed test tools? (I tested your website)
    while your website is behind the coming soon page it’s hard for me to see what’s going on.
    is it still slow after you disable coming soon page plugin?
    have you tried a different theme to see if the theme causing issue?

    Your coming soon page is being loaded by a WordPress plugin, it seems, and it loads very quickly for me.

    Things that can slow down a WordPress installation include:

    • Loading a lot of images on a page
    • Unmoderated rogue crawler traffic
    • Anything that triggers a massive database query
    • Unoptimized or damaged SQL tables

    Since yours is a new installation you might have an issue with rogue crawlers hammering your servers. You can try to block them on your site but that won’t do much for other people’s sites.

    Dreamhost is one of the Web hosting providers whose servers I have to block in my firewalls. They are by no means the worst but many WordPress installations have been compromised by botnets.

    You should look at your raw server log files to see if there are a lot of requests coming in for your “wp-login.php” script. If so you’ll want to defend it against those requests (normal visitors don’t need to log into a Website that is not inviting the to).

    Another possibility (although I cannot confirm this) is that there is a conflict between the HOTFIX plugin and WordPress. That plugin has not been updated in quite a while and WordPress now installs its own security updates.

    Thread Starter whitesea

    (@whitesea)

    Hi contentiskey, thank you for the response.

    I haven’t tried any speed test tools, maybe that’ll be my next move. My website is still just an empty theme, so there isn’t anything to see. I’ve disabled the coming soon page plug-in to no avail. The slowness started before I installed this current theme, so I don’t think that’s the issue.

    Thread Starter whitesea

    (@whitesea)

    sffandom, thank you for the reply. I’m not sure what a lot of this means but I appreciate the help. I’ll delete the Hotfix plug-in and see if that makes a difference.

    It’s hard to provide specific answers to questions like “why is my site running slow” because there are so many possible reasons. You have to learn some basic admin skills and practice being watchful.

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