Painfully Slow

Can you login to your dashboard?

Hi – I can. It takes good few secs thou’
Mike

Now deactivate all plugins and revert to the default theme so that I can have a look at what is really happening.

Done.

Looks like about server response time.

Yes, there is improvement. Earlier I could not even scan. Please keep it for a few minutes more till I check your page load speed.

Now your site loads in 12.6 seconds. Here is the report:
https://gtmetrix.com/reports/www.ifreelancedigitaldesign.co.uk/VqnLZUZF

12.06 seconds. is still much for no any plugins and default theme.
Try checking with your hosting if they have a heavy server load. I think it’s more connected to your hosting than to your website, unless you are on a shared hosting server and the plugins or the theme you are using are making a slow queries to the database that made the server insulate your website and give it a lower resources to not cause problem to the rest of the other website which is a very common problem on shared hosting.

Thanks for the help.

I see what you have done here and I see the results on https://gtmetrix.com/reports/www.ifreelancedigitaldesign.co.uk/VqnLZUZF

However, I have 2 host accounts from this host and https://www.ifreelancedigitaldesign.co.uk/ runs so very badly and on the other account https://development.scottishpancreasresearch.org/wpcms/ it runs perfect and the runs ALL aspects of WP, Themes and Plugins very very well.

Note the Comparison link https://gtmetrix.com/compare/jcqJUiXu/QeR5Q3Mj and yet this “gtmetrix” grades them very differently.

So, I am sorry to say I can rely on this gtmetrix to show up the issues.

Mike

I am sorry to say I can rely on this gtmetrix to show up the issues.

Do you mean you can rely or can’t rely on the report?

Try to troubleshot the problem from zero.
Before doing anything backup your website and your database
1- Delete your files and database and re-install WordPress with only the necessary files (Without any extra plugins and/or themes).
2- Create a new database for the new installation.
3- Try testing your website speed with one of the following websites:
https://tools.pingdom.com/fpt/
https://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/insights
https://gtmetrix.com/
“Even if you don’t rely on the results these websites gives, you would anyway have a better Idea to start with”

Hi all,

Again thanks for the help.

Aymam, I did try this already. But I might do it again.

Mike

Did you manage to troubleshot the problem? Please share if you did.