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Yep! I actually already have that plugin. It currently says:

1 critical issue

Critical issues are items that may have a high impact on your sites performance or security, and resolving these issues should be prioritized.
Critical issues are items that may have a high impact on your sites performance or security, and resolving these issues should be prioritized.

WordPress update available (6.4.3) Security

A new minor update is available for your site. Because minor updates often address security, it’s important to install them.

3 recommended improvements

Recommended items are considered beneficial to your site, although not as important to prioritize as a critical issue, they may include improvements to things such as; Performance, user experience, and more.

You should remove inactive plugins Security

Plugins extend your site’s functionality with things like contact forms, ecommerce and much more. That means they have deep access to your site, so it’s vital to keep them up to date.

Your site has 24 active plugins, and they are all up to date.

Your site has 3 inactive plugins. Inactive plugins are tempting targets for attackers. If you are not going to use a plugin, you should consider removing it.

A scheduled event has failed Performance

The scheduled event, epc_purge_request, failed to run. Your site still works, but this may indicate that scheduling posts or automated updates may not work as intended.

You should use a persistent object cache Performance

A persistent object cache makes your site’s database more efficient, resulting in faster load times because WordPress can retrieve your site’s content and settings much more quickly.

Your hosting provider can tell you if a persistent object cache can be enabled on your site. Your host appears to support the following object caching services: APCu.

Just since yesterday morning. It happened after installing Smush and W3 Total Cache.

When I asked my host about restoring from a backup, they said there is no need because the site works fine on their end, and to contact the developer of the plugins. However, I’ve deactivated both plugins and the problem still persists, so I’m not sure how to proceed.

Thank you. I just contacted my host and they weren’t much help, basically said to contact the developer of the plugin. I do use shared hosting and you’re definitely right about changing hosts in the long-term. I’ve had a big increase in website traffic over the past few months and am hoping to monetize, but I really need to get the speed issue resolved first.

Fairly certain it’s Smush (possibly interacting with Jetpack?) which is causing the issue at the moment—I might make a fresh post to see if I can get the developer’s attention. I see there are quite a few older posts from WP users with similar problems, so it seems like a known issue.

In terms of the image resizer plugin, how do I know what size image to use? I’ve been resizing my images (before upload) to max 1500px wide and 72 dpi, but clearly this isn’t small enough. The other comment mentions something about resizing to the width of the page, but I’m not sure how I’d determine that, either?

Thank you. So I tried to implement some of these, and in the process seem to have done something to mess up the entire site. Before it was slow, but still perfectly functional. Now it’s slow to the point of being unusable, and many images aren’t loading at all. Also, WordPress itself barely functions now, and keeps timing out/disconnecting when I try to edit a post. My internet connection is otherwise fine.

I added Smush (to reduce image size) and “smushed” about 50% of my images, but now a lot of them do not load at all, or only a few load, like this post: https://bastecutfold.com/dark-chocolate-truffles-sparkling-rose/

Hoping @wpmudevsupport13 might be able to weigh in, as Smush seems to be the cause of the problem, or maybe Smush interacting with another plugin?

I added the W3 Total Cache plugin, but then got an error message in Smush that I needed to turn it off. For now I’ve deleted W3 Total Cache, and deactivated Smush. I’ve also deleted or deactivated all but the essential plugins.

What can I do to get my site back to where it was a day ago? I’d rather have slow-ish but functional that what it looks like now.