Hi! Yes, it is a bit slow…
Look error log on the server in case that there will be errors, sometimes site visitors can have 502 errors where the server has fewer resources that it needs to run the whole requests.
You can try to give WordPress more memory (it can not work if your hosting tariff don’t have such amount): https://wordpress.org/support/article/editing-wp-config-php/#increasing-memory-allocated-to-php
And also you can switch to protocol h2 from http/1.1 – asked your hosting provider how to do it and possibly about the number of resources your site needs.
You can try switching off plugins which are not very important for your site and see if the performance will be better, caching plugin can also be useful if you don’t have one.
There are much more possibilities, but performance optimization is a bit topic itself.
Ok I will look into these issues.
The plugins I have installed are only the plugins I needed to create the site.
Is it better to signup for a shopify account and create a website with them to create a fast website or is there no proof in this theory?
WordPress can handle almost anything and big magazines use WordPress because its flexibility and convenient interface for editors, especially now with the block editor, but of cause they have enough amount of resources on servers, right setting etc, you can see some examples with hight performance and a lot of visitors:
https://make.wordpress.org/marketing/tag/case-studies/
You can make a staging site (duplicate) ass well for experiments to figure out what is wrong with your site.
Running a Development Copy of WordPress
Don’t forget ‘Discourage search engines’ if it will be accessible from the Internet:
Settings Reading Screen
Does a site like pingdom narrow down exactly why the site is running slow?
Your time to first byte is over 40 seconds (link). Try disabling all other plugins and activating the WordPress Twenty-Twenty theme. If that does not help then contact your host.
Hi,
I can try that but will that not just wipe all the work I have done so far?
All your settings are saved in the database, so you will not lose your work if you disable plugins and chnage themes temporarily. Taking full backups (site files and database) is always good practice, so why not start now for additional peace of mind: https://wordpress.org/plugins/search/backups/
Also, the Health Check plugin allows you to change themes and disable plugins only for the logged in user (you as the administrator), so that the visitors to the site are not affected.
