The joomla 2.5 site (shared hosting) http://dppumps.eu/home (temporary homepage) from time to time is extremely slow. When visiting after a long time it may take up to 30sec to load, and it has happened to me several times to get 500 internal server error after loading for a long time. When refreshed it takes from 0.5 sec to 4 sec to load. How is it possible to have such a big range in loading time? Maybe a server issue or something in my script? Thank you. (I have created numerous sites with joomla 2.5 hosted in the same hosting company with no problems)
You really do need to do some research before you ask questions like this.
First thing you should always do is run a site speed test using Pingdom or something similar. I've run a test on your and you're initially loading 11.1MB of data.
6.6MB of this data is from 2 flash video files which cannot even be found. You then have to take into consideration that you've most likely not used web compression when saving images for your website.
In addition to this, you may want to consider enabling Joomla's GZip compression in the Global Configuration and enable the System Cache plugin. Should you not want to do this, I would strongly suggest using a caching plugin such as JCH Optimize.
Article upon article has been written regarding slow website so please look around to see what methods suits you the most
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I have tested my site freshdeals.co.in on http://www.webpagetest.org/result/150325_HZ_TAN/
I didn't understand why my site taking to much time in TTFB, and what i can do to reduce this.
Alos i would like to know for every http request on the page include this TTFB or not?
I think your server is overloaded and due to that may be you are getting this issues, I will suggest you please monitor your server and optimize your MySQL and web server which is installed on your server.
Also, Please check page speed suggestion of your site and try to update it on your site : https://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/insights/?url=freshdeals.co.in&tab=desktop
How customized is the implementation? Server capacity might be an issue but for a 15 second page load time it is more likely that a customization is the cause of the issue. Excessive iteration is a fairly consistent problem for Magento implementations, often seen by many calls to Mage_Core_Model_Abstract::load().
Take the public dataset and load on a local computer and run a profiler against it. XDebug or Zend Debugger both have profilers, or try New Relic. If you aren't able to do that turn the query log on in MySQL and load a page. In the worst case you should not see much more than 100 queries. If you see more than that you will likely need to re-architect some customizations.
Also, make sure that you're using an opcache for PHP code and that your data cache is working. But even if both of those are turned off you should not be seeing 15 second page load times.
Domain of my blog is codesaviour.
Since last month my blog and wp-admin dashboard has slowed down to a frustrating level. I have already removed post revision after reading from speeding up wordpress.
Here is the Google PageSpeed Insight report of my blog. According to it server responding time is 11s.
I even read following threads in stack overflow :
link. I tried to implement the steps but blog is still slow,no change.
My host is Hostgator.in,their online assistance asked me to enable gzip compression as instructed at link,So I followed the instruction, as I was not having .htaccess file on server I created one and pasted the code mentioned in previous link,but nothing helped. It is slow like before, even online reports doesn't show that gzip is even working.
Here is a report from gtmetrix that includes Pagespeed and YSlow reports.Third Tab Timeline shows that it took 11.46s in receiving.
Main problem is server response of 11s (google pagespeed report) or 11.46s(gtmetrix report).
Google suggests to reduce it under 200ms ,How can I reduce it?
#Constantine responded in this link , that many wordpress website are going through same slow phase.
I am using following plugins:
Akismet
Google Analyticator
Google XML Sitemaps
Jetpack by WordPress.com
Revision Control
SyntaxHighlighter Evolved
WordPress Gzip Compression
WordPress SEO
WP Edit
Every time I select add new plugin following error is reported,
An unexpected error occurred. Something may be wrong with
WordPress.org or this server’s configuration.
Also whenever i am installing any plugin using upload option, its giving me error :
Can't load versions file.
http_request_failed
Please help me,in order to increase speed of my blog and dashboard, also suggestion for the errors I am receiving.
Edit
Automatically , without any changes , 11.46s has been reduced to 1.26s .
I will focus on the speed issue. Generally, when things start to be slow, it is a good idea to test by gradually switching off the features until it is fast. The last thing you switched off before it is fast is slow. Then look at that thing in details. Try to split the given task to subtask and do it again, until you find the exact cause of the problem. I would do that with the plugins as well. After the testing is finished, I would put the features back.
Use an effective caching plugin like "WP Super Cache". It drastically improves your page"s load time. Optimizing your images is also essential for your site"s speed. WP-SmushIt performs great for this issue.The last plugin which I highly recommend you is WP-Optimize.This plugin basically clean up your WordPress database and optimize it without doing manual queries. It sometimes gives error when you installed the same plugin more than ones. Firstly, you should delete the plugin from your ftp program instead of using wordpress platform. Otherwise, its not working properly due to errors. Then try to install again the same plugin which you had already deleted.
If you're going to maintain a site about programming then you really have to fix the performance. It really is awful.
The advice you get from automated tools isn't always that good.
Looking at the link you provided the biggest problem is the HTML content generation from GET http://codesaviour.com/ which is taking 11.46 seconds (there are problems elsewhere - but that is by far the worst) - 99% of the time the browser is just waiting - it only takes a fraction of a second to transfer the content across the network. Wordpress is notorious for poor performance - often due to overloading pages with plugins. Your landing page should be fast and cacheable (this fails on both counts).
even online reports doesn't show that gzip is even working
The HAR file you linked to says it is working. But compression isn't going to make much impact - it's only 8.4Kb uncompressed. The problem is with the content generation.
You should certainly use a Wordpress serverside cache module (here's a good comparison).
DO NOT USE the Wordpress Gzip plugin - do the compression on the webserver - it's much faster and more flexible.
In an ideal world you should be using ESI - but you really need control over the infrastructure to implement that properly.
Diagnosing performance problems is hard - fixing them is harder and that is when you have full access to the system it's running on. I would recommend you set up a local installation of your stack and see how it performs there - hopefully you can reproduce the behaviour and will be able to isolate the cause - start by running HPROF, checking the MySQL query log (I'm guessing these aren't available from your hosting company). You will howevver be able to check the state of your opcode cache - there are free tools for both APC and ZOP+. Also check the health of your MySQL query cache.
Other things to try are to disable each of the plugins in turn and measure the impact (you can get waterfalls in Firefox using the Firebug extension, and in chrome using the bundled developer tools).
You might also want to read up a bit on performance optimization - note that most books tend to focus on the problems client-side but your problems are on your server. You might even consider switching to a provider who specializes in Wordpress or use a different CMS.
symcbean's answer is good, but I would add a few things:
This is a server-side issue
This has been said by others, but I want to further emphasize that this is a server side issue, so all those client-side speed testing tools are going to be of very limited value
HostGator isn't high-performance hosting
I don't know about India, but HostGator in the US is generally very slow for dynamic, database driven sites (like yours). It absolutely shouldn't take 11 seconds to load the page, especially since your site doesn't look particular complex, but unless you're serving a totally static site, HostGator probably won't ever give you really stellar performance.
Shared hosting leaves you at the mercy of badly-behaved "neighbors"
If you're using one of HostGator's standard shared hosting packages (I'm assuming you are), you could have another site on the same machine using too many resources and crippling the performance of your site. See if you can get HostGator to look into that.
Why not use a service built for this?
This looks like a totally standard blog, so a service like Tumblr or Wordpress.com (not .org) might be a better choice for your needs. Performance will be excellent and the cost should be very low, even with a custom domain name. If you aren't experienced in managing WordPress and don't have any interest in learning how (don't blame you), why not leave all that to the experts?
You need to make some adjustment to improve your speed up WordPress.
The first step is: clean some unwanted plugins you had in WordPress.
The second step is: delete the theme you not used.
The third step is: compress all images with lossless quality.
The fourth step is: Clean up the database.
If you have done all these steps you will fix your WordPress. You want more details to check out this link: How to fix WordPress dashboard slow.
Other than the usual suggestions, if you are hosting your MySql db on another host from the web server, check the latency between the two. Wordpress is unbelievably chatty with it's db (50+ db calls to load each dashboard page, for example). By moving the db onto the same host as the web server, I got excellent performance.
I am trying to reduce the latency on site goldealers.co.uk
The site appears to have a latency of anywhere between 950ms and 1500ms.
I have checked:
Processes
RAM usage
HTTP connections
Ping
Removing ALL plugins
Removing plugins doesn't make the slightest bit of difference.
The server is a VPS Cloud Server with dedicated 1.5ghz processor and 1GB RAM.
My question:
Is latency a server / programming problem?
Do wordpress sites generally have a high latency?
I have checked the latency on Forbes.com (a wordpress site) - This only has a latency of 151ms!!!
I will soon be working on caching, adding expires headers, possibly using a CDN for images etc... but to be honest, there is no point if it takes over 1 second to even start to return any data.
Any advice that you can provide is much appreciated.
Your analysis and priority are correct - starting with the base page load time first, then later optimizing the remaining front-end components.
In general WordPress sites by default can be a bit slow to deliver the HTML pages. Times in the range you mentioned 1-1.5 seconds are not uncommon. (For comparison, an unoptimized WordPress site I run is in the 1-3 second range.)
I would look into two areas:
Basic speed on that host
Database query speed
It could be that your webhost does not have a very fast connection. You can test this (and eliminate the WordPress part of the equation) by fetching a static file. On your site, for example, I can pull the robots.txt file down in about 0.3 seconds. The speed to serve a static file is about your minimum baseline.
Next I would look at the MySQL database query speed. Is MySQL being served on the same host or a different one? The Debug Queries plugin can show you the exact queries being made and performance for each. If the DB queries appear to be the problem, the DB Cache Reloaded plugin can sometimes be helpful. It adds an additional layer of caching for frequent DB calls.
There are also some good suggestions in the answers to this SO question: How can I figure out why my site pages load so slowly?
Your latency is almost certainly a server-related issue. You said you have a VPS and most VPS installations come with all Apache modules enabled - all of which you DO NOT NEED for Wordpress.
Eliminating all of the modules you don't need reduces how much memory each PHP instance will consume.
I've answered this question here on stack overflow: How can I figure out why my Wordpress pages load so slowly?
When I took a look at your site I saw that a lot of time is being killed on Facebook widgets. Testing from different locations around the world, looks like you are losing 2-3 seconds just for the facebook widgets. Drop those and you will have a much faster site.
I have a Drupal site built on a shared host and I'm finding that the site is very slow to respond. I susepect it's the host and not my Drupal/database configurations but I don't know how to decipher the results from Pingdom.
I have also read Explanation of Pingdom Results but am unsure of how to resolve my problems.
Pingdom results show a Load Time of 60 seconds.
Performance Grade tab shows results of all items at or near 100.
According to the Page Analysis tab, most of the time is spent on the Wait state.
Does the above indicate a problem with my hosting or perhaps domain name provider or is there something that I can do to improve performance of my website?
I should also mention that I've used other tools like Google's Page Speed Chrome plugin and Firefox's Yslow plugin and both give an above average rating to my webpages which leads me to believe it's an issue with my host.
Drupal has this issues of abusing database queries especially if you use a lot of modules on one page and do not cache anything. That may slow down your site considerably. I use Pressflow Drupal`s profile to reduce some load times I also ad Varnish to server (you can look at Memcache too) I also add Boost module to the site itself. But the most important thing is to get query per page load number right. If have written some custom code optimize it. Look for ways to get same data without sending queries to the server maybe some data was already loaded to the page and you do not need tome queries.
In your particular case I think that some lose loop which does not end but has safety trigger which kills it after certain amount of time. I can bet that the reason is somewhere in your custom code or some underdeveloped module. Try to enable display of all the error.
P.S. Example of such page would be the best way determine what is wrong.
My website is http://secretpassagesbooks.com/. It runs on the latest version of wordpress and is hosted via GoDaddy on a shared web server.
My website takes at anywhere from ten seconds to one minute to load, and I don't understand why. I have tested in IE, FireFox, and Chrome, and the page speed is the same. I performed several speed tests at various online speed test sites and have an average load time of 5 - 6 seconds. Yet when I click on a link to my URL or enter it directly it takes in excess of 30 seconds (sometimes more than a minute) to load the index page.
Here is what I have done so far to troubleshoot the issue:
I have the YSlow and Page Speed extensions installed in Firebug
Yslow test gives me a "Grade A -Overall performance score 90"
My Page Speed a score is 94/100
I have the W3Cache wordpress plugin installed and am using page, browser, and database object caching
I've tried minimizing as much CSS and JavaScript as possible
The site is using HTTP compression
Is there anything more I can do with this design, or is it case of my shared web server being overloaded? Thanks in advance for all your help.
YSlow, etc detect problems in the HTML, Javascript and CSS parts, and these are probably OK. It looks like your hosting is to blame.
If those plug-in results are correct (and I've no reason to doubt they are), then it's most likely a case of your virtual server simply being overloaded.
I presume you have no such issues running an identical site in a "local" production environment either, although you might want to try this to confirm if you've not already done this.
Incidentally, a tale-tell sign of an overloaded VPS/shared hosting solution is if the first page load is incredibly slow, but subsequent loads are "normal" - a common reason being that your "decicated" sandbox is being awoken from a sleep/low resource state. (This also seems to be the case as far as your site is concerned.) As such, it's possible (I don't know the details of this server, such as whether you have a "guaranteed" resource level for CPU, memory, etc.) that other sites on this particular server are using more than their fair share of bandwidth until your site kicks in.
Based on some tests from a tool that I built (The Performance Grader at JoomlaPerformance.com), wow is it bad...
Notice that the HTML took approximately 21.83 seconds to download (from the initial request, to the last object being downloaded). Not to mention that the page is nearly 300kb (which is fairly large for only having 7 images)...
This is where the issue is. Notice that the connection and DNS phases are fine, but the generation phase is really REALLY slow. That's where your problems are. It's server-side. So, you need to debug why it's slow. Some areas to look at are the SQL queries that are being executed (and if they are slow), any slow plugins, etc. Try disabling things one at a time to see if each makes a measurable difference or not.
My "hunch" is that your database is either overloaded, or your queries are very expensive. So in short, you can try another host to see if that helps (which is the solution more than you'd think)...
As most of you pointed out, the issue seemed to be with the server. I contacted GoDaddy and explained the situation. It turns out that my site was hosted on one of their legacy servers and was most likely overloaded. They switched me over to one of their grid servers (no cost) and now everything is loading quickly. Thanks for all the responses. I spent a lot of time tweaking the design, removing plugins one by one, reducing as many HTTP requests as possible, and generally went crazy trying figure out how to best optimize my site. After a few days and a lot of tests, I could not accept that the problem was client-side, especially after all the optimization test I ran showed my site was ok. So good to have it settled...for now, at least.
GoDaddy's webhosting is the bottleneck to your website, you should probably go for a VPS if you have got an advanced website with loads of lookups!