ashjones34

I finally solved this by using the W3 Total Cache plugin. All performance issues are gone.

simply wasn’t working for me so I removed.

Now I see they are from different sub folders but the same file name.

Thank you.

Hi. It’s in the screenshot above. https://xlr8racing.net

2 lines in there include contact-form-7, those ones.

I’m self hosting and tunnelling to Cloudflare. It’s a dedicated server with only this wordpress site to run.

I see that there is no problem with https://xlr8racing.net/readme.html which is the WordPress ‘First things first’ page. So now I suspect a plugin or the twentytwentyfour theme, etc.

As you say, it’s not a show-stopper anyway.

The thing is it was fine before 6.5.3 so that would seem to rule out anything slow with the hosting. I only have browser caching headers in the .htaccess file, no other cache plugins and I also use Cloudflare for edge caching.

Nevertheless I rolled-back to 6.5.2 and the problem remained. So now I’m back on 6.5.3-php8.3-apache and looking for the reason behind this initial page load delay.

I disabled the Cloudflare edge caching and it made no difference at all with the PageSpeed Insights result, which is interesting in itself, but doesn’t get me closer to finding the problem.

Thanks James. I’ve optimized as much as I can and subsequent page loads are super fast, but the first one as measured by pagespeed insights is always slow.

Can you suggest any troubleshooting steps I could follow to narrow down to the cause of the delay?