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1. mzimmers
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   Hi -

   About a year ago, I created my first WP site:
   scopedin
   Performance got slower over time. I'd read of other people with the same issue, so I assumed it was inherent to WP and didn't give it much more thought.

   But...last night I made a second site:
   radiosilverbar
   And this site is MUCH faster and more responsive. Logging in as admin is faster, editing pages/posts is faster, even viewing the site seems faster.

   So...now I'm wondering what I did to make my first site so slow. Do I need to do some kind of periodic maintenance on the DB? It's really not that big -- about 100 Pages, and less than 2MB.

   Could it be plug-ins doing this?

   Any other ideas? I'd really like to do whatever I have to, to clean up my first site, to get some performance back.

   Thanks...

2. mzimmers
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   Any ideas? The performance difference is really quite dramatic. Same server, same version of the DB and WP, same everything...just one's a bit more populated than the other.

3. MichaelH
   Volunteer
   Posted 3 years ago #

   At least can point you to WordPress_Optimization and don't forget to check some of the items in the Further Reading section.

4. mzimmers
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   Well, I took the advice of eliminating some plugins and...wow. What a difference. For anyone else with performance problems, strongly consider limiting the number of spam-trap plugins you use. I had three, and performance was awful. I eliminated two and it's pretty decent now.

   Thanks, Michael...I'll mark this resolved.

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