WordPress running slow

  • Hi there,

    To make this as easy to understand for people I will try to explain my situation in as much detail as possible.

    My business partner and I build websites for a living and a large proportion of those sites are built on WordPress which is great. We both work from home, either I go to his, he comes to mine or occasionally we both work separately at home (this is relevant trust me).

    For some time now, probably a good 6 months (maybe more), when we are working together (at his or mine) and we both go on one of our WordPress sites (it can be the same site or two different sites), the load time for one of us completely slows down, taking about a minute or so to load any page. From doing as much testing as I can I have narrowed it down to just our WordPress sites (not very narrow I know). This happens whenever we are on the same public IP, so either both working at his or both working at mine. When we are working individually from home there is no problem whatsoever, the speed is fine.

    It is really frustrating as we do use WordPress quite often as previously mentioned.

    I spoke to my support guys at WebhostingUK and they couldn’t see any problems at all. We both use Macs and have tried using different browsers to see if that helps but it doesn’t. I have a feeling it could be to do with our internet settings at home but I am no expert in that field.

    If anyone has this problem or has had a similar problem in the past, your help would be greatly appreciated.

    Many thanks in advance.

    Jack

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  • Can you share your url to make a speed test?

    or simply do it yourself, go to https://gtmetrix.com/wordpress-optimization-guide.html and copy past your site url, some other WordPress guides will help

    Thread Starter W0tti

    (@w0tti)

    Hi Fathi,

    Sorry I didn’t respond sooner, been a hectic week.

    I used the linked you provided with one of my urls but I am not sure if that will help. Reason being, it will be slow for me and quick for Steve despite sitting next to each other which is the case right now. In a few days time (or maybe even in an hour or so, can never tell), it will switch and behave at a normal speed for me and a slow speed for Steve.

    Touching on my point in my first message, if it is an issue with our internet settings then I will have to speak to our internet providers. A test to see if the same issue occurs for you (or anyone else) would be to open one of websites on one computer and then open the same one on another computer (or on your phone/tablet) in the same house and see if one behaves slower than the other. We haven’t tested this outside where we currently work so if it works fine for you then it must definitely be our internet.

    If you do test it, if you could let me know that would be great.

    One of our sites is https://offthebarrow.co.uk/

    Many thanks,

    Jack

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