Site Loading Slowly

  • thebloke

    (@thebloke)


    20 years, 9 months ago

    Hello, I have recently upgraded my site http://intheouter.net/ with a new theme to get rid of some of the slow loading problems my site has. It seems to load a tad faster but at times I still have problems with it being slow.

    Here are some of the symptoms:

    1. When I am publishing a new post. After I hit the post button, Firefox takes forever to refresh and sometimes never does. The tab still shows my edit screen while on the left bottom of the browser it indicates that the process is “Done.” When I go to another tab and refresh, I can see the post on my site, but why is the Edit screen not refreshed?

    1b. When sometimes it refreshed quickly after I had hit publish, it loads very slowly when I try to edit the post or display the post page in my blog.

    2. Then when I try to go to the WP Admin page from my StatTraq Summary screen (which is already opened in another tab while I was writing my post earlier), the new tab will try to refresh and then the word Done appears in the lower left but the screen is blank. If I tried to go to the WP Admin from my StatTraq summary page, without having posted or edited a post, it loads quite fast.

    To solve the loading problems I usually have to restart my computer or (worse) I need to report to my host who restarts the server. This later ploy has work in a number of occasions, and usually my host support tells me that the database or the server is peaking and some script is spooling. They seem to indicate that it is not me however, but someone else as I am in a shared environment.

    Intermittently I have had readers alert me to the fact that they also have problems loading my blog up.

    Can someone offer some suggestions? Perhaps the problem is with my host?

    What can you tell me from your own experience?

    Thanks!

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  • mrcbrown

    (@mrcbrown)

    20 years, 9 months ago

    It could be your host, but you do have a few items of external content on your main page – amazon stuff galore – that in itself can sometimes lead to slower load times.

    I know my site lags a little now and again – high-use on server, but all part of the hosting game usually, and with exploits floating around lately in phpBB/XMLRPC/etc. ya never know what is hitting the server at any given time.

    Maybe hit up your host with a trouble ticket, ask if they can provide any explination on their end, maybe they are getting hit hard by attacks – just a thought.

    tomhanna

    (@tomhanna)

    20 years, 9 months ago

    1 – That may be related to the time it takes to ping whatever services you have set up in your Writing options plust whatever URLS are in the post. If you do a post with a lot of links and it tries to ping all those links, it’s going to take longer than a plain text post. You can usually go to your blog after a second or two and find the post there, but this may (I’m not sure) short circuit the pinging of pingomatic, etc.

    2 – The StatTraq issue sounds like something in your hosting setup just doesn’t like that plugin, but if that’s the only issue and you like the plugin, you just may need to work around it by not going straight from the plugin to the admin page. (Try going to view the blog and then back into the Admin page.)

    tomhanna

    (@tomhanna)

    20 years, 9 months ago

    Oh, and The Truth Laid Bear slows sites down a lot as does Sitemeter and occasionally to a lesser extent Technorati. You can solve that to some extent by making those the very last items in your sidebar.php. The page still won’t load completely in a flash, but everything except those items will be visible much quicker.

    From your layout, I believe you have the TTLB code as the last thing on the page (even though it’s the 3rd column, that’s a quirk of that theme). You just need to move your Sitemeter code to the same place and probably move the Technorati code down a couple notches to the same spot also.

    Thread Starter thebloke

    (@thebloke)

    20 years, 9 months ago

    Thanks guys for the helpful comments.

    The TTLB code is actually from the TTLB plugin that doesn’t poll the TTLB site. That works quite well I think. I will move the position of the Technorati code.

    It does seem that I have problems most of the time when I publish a new post. Perhaps the database needs to be optimized? Or maybe it is the server or perhaps I might get better performance with another hosting company?

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