I have a few sites which are exhibiting a slow load time. All are WordPress 3.5. All are hosted through BlueHost. All are developed by me (built as child-themes of existing WP themes).
Using Safari Developer tools, I see that they average 4–6 seconds (not ms) of latency before anything happens, which appears to be abnormally high. I've tried to wrap my head around latency, and I know I'm not the only one to ask about it here ... but I cannot figure out if the primary culprit is my hosting provider (Bluehost) or with my development.
Here are a couple of my sites with issues:
http://www.HubbardProductions.com
http://www.xla.com
Can anyone point me in the right direction? What can I do to reduce the latency?
you can see from here. your website is responding lately. http://i.imgur.com/VIVoq.png
http://tools.pingdom.com/fpt/#!/jyKI0Kv01/http://hubbardproductions.com/
Chris, same problem here. Also with Bluehost + Wordpress 3.5.
Some minutes ago, my sites even went down, and I was unable even to access cPanel. I received the following error:
Auth failed69.89.31.120:2083 is temporarily down.
I contacted the technical staff and they told me to try again, deleting cookies, and also sent me this url:
https://my.bluehost.com/cgi/help/481
Which, in my case, is of little help, but perhaps it can help you.
I asked them if there was any problem with the servers lately and they said nope, no issues.
So, to answer your question, I would:
Wait a few days, in case it is temporary (I hope).
If not, I would run some tests with simple html pages, then php, then php + simple SQL, etc., to find the bottleneck, and if it is a server issue or a wordpress issue.
If I find it is a server issue, I would complain.
If everything fails, I would move my sites to other hosting. Bye-bye Bluehost. :(
Good luck!
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I'm a bit confused by a problem that has only become more apparently lately and I'm hoping that someone might be able to point me in the direction of either where I might look for appropriate settings, or if I am running into another problem they have come across before.
I have a Laravel application and a private server that I use for our little museum. Now as the application has become more complex, the lag is noticeable and you can see how it almost lines up the connections, finishing one request before moving along to the next, whether it be api, ajax, view responses, whatever.
I am running Apache 2.4.29 and my Ubuntu Server is 18.04.1.
I have been looking around but not much has helped, in regards to connections settings, if I look at my phpinfo() I see this Max Requests Per Child: 0 - Keep Alive: on - Max Per Connection: 100 but I believe these are just fine the way they are.
If I check my memory I think it says I have 65 GB of available memory, with 5 being used in caching. When reviewing the live data, the memory never crosses into the GB territory and solely remains in the MB territory. This server is absolutely only used for this Laravel project, so I don't have to worry about messing with other projects, I'd just like to make sure this application is getting the best use it can for its purpose.
I'd appreciate any suggestions, I know there's a chance the terms I am searching for are incorrect, or maybe just outdated, so if there are any potential useful resources out there, I'd appreciate those as well.
Thank you so much!
It's really hard to be able to tell since there a lot of details lacking but here some things that can give you a direction of where to look:
Try downloading htop via apt-get and see what happens on your CPU/RAM load with each request to the server.
Do you use php-fpm to manage the php requests? This might help in finding out if the problem lies in your PHP code or in apache configuration
Did you try deploying to a different server? Do you still see the lagging on the other server as well? If not, this indicates a misconfiguration problem and not an issue with your code.
Do you have other processes that are running in the background and might slow things down? Cron? Laravel Queue?
If you try to install another app on the server (let's say phpmyadmin) is it slow as well or it works fine?
Try to take it from here. Best of luck.
It's been 2 days and I think i might have to kill myself.
My website for some reason suddenly started taking way way wayyyy to long to load.
I have cloudflare enable on my domain to cache content so my site can load faster, I've tried turning it off, but my site is still taking forever to load.
I've used pingdom(http://tools.pingdom.com/fpt/#!/dFvagb/http://streamaton.com/) and according to the results it shows that the domain itself is taking to much time to load(whut?).
I've tried visiting other section of my site like my admin panel and the site loads up pretty fast.
I have no idea how to pin point the root of this problem.
it depends a bit on the circumstances:
Could the case be that you have much higher load than usually?
If not, did you perform any code changes that might be responsible for that change?
it could also be the case that the server your website is on is under unusual high load or in some weird half-dead state. Sending a mail to your ISP asking them to check your server might be a good idea in any case.
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'm trying to move a Magento 1.7 site to a WebFaction 512MB plan. Currently it's on a several-GB Linode (and it absolutely rocks), but we have to move it onto our own server now and I'm having trouble getting it to perform well (typical page load is anywhere from 45s to several minutes, often timing out at 5 mins).
As mentioned in the title, I'm running Nginx with fastcgi_pass to the PHP-FPM socket (php 5.5.0, w/zend opcode). FWIW, I've already moved our Wordpress site to this server, and it's performing great under basically the same setup. I've also got a similar setup running on my local VM, similar PHP settings, and it doesn't have any trouble delivering a page in 3-5s. I've done lots of profiling with XDebug, and I'm still at a loss - it says that about 90% of the time is spent in spl_autoload (handled by lib/Varien/Autoload), but I don't know if there's anything I can actually do about that. I've echoed get_include_path() and it doesn't include anything weird, so... I just don't know.
Here's some relevant config info, at pastebin:
Nginx config
php-fpm.conf
php.ini
I'm at my wits end, and am basically hoping for at the very least, a simple sanity check: Magento on Webfaction, 512MB, PHP Fastcgi - is that crazy? Not sure if it matters, but we've only got like 75 products. Let me know if there's other info that might help, I've got the php "slow logs", xdebug... yeah. I'm just unable to see the problem at this point, but I feel like I've got the tools to ferret it out, whatever it might be. Thanks in advance!
I'm afraid that this will come down to the underpowered environment. Correct me if I am wrong but your hosting is probably a VPS and sometimes, no matter how much optimisation you do - it's often easier to upgrade the hosting.
I'm at a loss why you would move from a VPS to a shared hosting provider like Webfaction. If you bought a dedicated webfaction server why are you limited to only 512mb?
The problem was not with my app or my nginx/php settings at all, it turns out the server my account is on was totally overloaded and has since been dealt with. My app now loads really fast, basically as you would expect.
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!