WordPress on Godaddy unbearably slow

Thanks. The site may load better now because I disabled most of the plugins and a few of the theme features just to get it going quicker.

Will have a look at your notes.

Regards
Scott

A speedtest here shows 72 seconds to download on a dialup:
https://websiteoptimization.com/services/analyze/ (input https://www.childrens-cancer-charities.com )

Our target is 8 seconds on a dialup.

Well I run a blog on godaddy and it runs well (on delux). The only thing that bothers me is that for some odd reason if you update your files in your file manager it can 3-6 hours to be able to see the changes on your website. You think it should be just about instant right?

Scott look at your “Analysis and Recommendations” on https://analyze.websiteoptimization.com/wso

Problogger.com is also run on godaddy, not sure what type of hosting but it loads very fast if you check it out on the program and that website is pretty complicated.

There is a positive for godaddy-wordpress blogs going so slow! You get less spam. ?? Since… spammers from foreign countries on dial up will give up ??

Scott,

Sorry to hear this! I tested your site on and off our network and it looks to be loading properly. I did notice the theme took some time to load, however, that was only around a second. I added some notes to your account with additional information. Because this information is sensitive to your account, our support team will need to confirm account ownership. You can find the support team contact information here.

I visited the ‘support team contact’ link above. What am I expected to do here? I am just presented with a very complicated set of frequently asked questions followed by a difficult to navigate interface.

Could you simply share the notes with us all here? I bet others experiencing godaddy’s poor download speeds would appreciate further advice short of moving to a competitor.

Thanks in advance.
Scott

Hi eatingrocks

Yes, these are the recommendations (below) for reducing download speed of our godaddy https://www.childrens-cancer-charities.com website.

Unfortunately they mostly have to do with the theme design and the fixes are beyond my expertise.

Granted I could enable gzip on the hosting account but I do not see an option to do that in my godaddy control panel ??

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You could change your theme. A theme like “WP Soul” would get your load time to below 35 seconds. I actually just changed my blog theme to this to decrease its load time, but then you would have to edit it a little bit.. and it would still not be fast enough.

But you should be able to make your blog load faster by:
-making your logo smaller (as in size smaller), my logo adds 15 seconds onto my time alone on my blog (have to redo it) and mine was only 2 seconds longer load time then yours.
-Your advertising is just one big block, I don’t know if it will work but making them 4 separate blocks might be better since you are loading a smaller image. Plus then your sponsors can get a link from there.
-take the really small images off the front page
-make your background one solid color instead of repeating images…

Hi all…

I started to load my install.php before i read this thread…
but after i finished the all the readings… my install.php STILL NOT YET LOADED!!!!!

“https://carmenkong.com/wp-admin/install.php”

I have no idea what has caused this problem, but i have successfully hosted my pages before with Freehosting123.com…even that no-longer-existed free hosting server load WP better than paid GoDaddy server…

And i have signed up the deluxe linux plan with GoDaddy…

Considering switch of servers…
i feel like i have paid $100 for a burger that is not even up to a McDonald standard :'(

advises please.

Cheers,
Carmen

Carmen I had problems with installing wordpress 28.4 on a godaddy server (probably there is problems on all servers) so I uninstalled/deleted everything and downloaded wordpress 2.7 from https://www.brothersoft.com/wordpress-download-244435.html and it worked perfectly. The problem with 28.4 was that the admin menu was all messed up for the website.

However, I run 28.4 on my blog and it works fine so I think there is a problem with something to do with its installation.

I too have been having issues with either my own blog or a client one (with shopping cart) that I just finished launching. It is SO slow, and the client is not very happy – as I totally agree with. They are on GoDaddy and so is one of my blogs (Deluxe Linux Plan). I also have a main website, with WordPress, on Yahoo! hosting and the speed is much better although I run into other issues (not as crucial as pages taking upwards of 20-30 seconds to load).

What I have found to help is using a cache plug-in, but by no means is this a solution at all!!! I am eager to see what GoDaddy does about this because about 90% of my clients use them. My straight HTML sites work great, bring in a database and everything goes to h*ll.

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Just in case you missed it, I posted this help article on ways to assist with site speed. You can see that article here: https://help.godaddy.com/article/5521

I also posted the link to the GoDaddy.com support page to give users another help resource. Our support team is available 24/7 to assist with any issues you encounter. I apologize if I can’t help completely in this forum. In some cases details we provide to help resolve the issue includes account sensitive information, and to protect your privacy we need to verify ownership first.

I am trying some of the plugins that your link above mentions, and so far I notice better results – but not wonderful. A call to tech support might be in order, because my client is asking that I remove the new site and put up the older HTML one I designed for them until this all gets worked out. A bit disheartening, and I too was about to move my WordPress website to GoDaddy…but I am rethinking things. It would not be good for a web designer to have a very slow website. Something about that just isn’t right.

I spent several hours today trying to implement the GoDaddy “help” in the article https://help.godaddy.com/article/5521. After 3 separate 45 minute calls it was determined that most of the recommendations could not be done unless I had a dedicated server. Why bother putting up help if 99% of the problems cannot be fixed with the “help”. GoDaddy makes you pay for all of the hosting upfront so I am stuck with them. If I could get out, I would. GoDaddy cannot handle WordPress!

I am in the same boat, my site is basically dead. It takes on average 10-20 seconds before it even starts to build the page. I’ve had advertisers back out because they said that my site is down and I told them it’s just really slow and they said they didn’t want to do business. I’ve started 5 tickets with godaddy and they said it works fine- I’ve got 3 30-second timeouts on my last 5 refreshes- ridiculous. Time to start shopping for host with working database servers.

https://www.netbook-central.com

Ah, I seem to have found why site is down around 50% of the time. I did a reverse IP lookup tool and there are 6900 other sites hosted on the same server as mine. If you look up any other shared blog there are usually less than 1000. unbelievable

Guess I will chime in as well. I moved from Yahoo to GD and I thought I had made it to the promised land. There was tons more capability, better customer service(initially), I thought I had found my host for the long term. Now I don’t know.

I bought the deluxe shared hosting plan (Linux, don’t let me tell you about the problems I had with Windows but anyway). I also purchased a dedicated IP address. At this point I am thinking I am in the money and the site didn’t run fast but it wasn’t that slow either. A while ago we did a major site redesign and even before that we had started to see a degradation in performance. I did a tracert and found some major latency in between the server and the user and put in a ticket. They came back and told me it was my site, it was too “dynamic”, are you kidding me? They even pointed to two scripts that I use as the culprits, the problem is that my competitors run wordpress with those same two plugins and don’t have these issues. My competitors average between 5-10 second load times, mine is running around 20-30 seconds and that’s unacceptable.

I put in another ticket and they still tell me its my site and I could accept that IF it happened all the time but it doesn’t but when its bad its terrible, down right unusable. I’d hate to change host again, but looks like I may have to look at changing host really soon here, especially if this ticket I just put in comes back and they tell me its my site, its not my site. To the GoDaddy guy, if you think you can help, give me a shout out at [email protected], hopefully we won’t have changed host by then.