Title: Admin extremely slow
Last modified: August 22, 2016

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# Admin extremely slow

 *  [bagro](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bagro/)
 * (@bagro)
 * [11 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/admin-extremely-slow-1/)
 * Hi,
 * I’m having big problems with the admin section on my self-hosted sites are extremely
   slow. The dashboard can take 15-20 seconds to load and it is the same for the
   rest of the admin pages. Please note that this is the same on a fresh install
   without any plugins. I have done some research and found the plugin Query Monitor
   through which I think I found the cause of the slow loading. The cause seems 
   to be that there are HTTP Request timeouts when checking for updates (look further
   down for example). I still get updates for everything.
 * Have anyone seen this problem and have a solution for it?
 * Example from loading the dashboard:
    Loading time: 16.13s Errors: #1 HTTP Request:
   POST [https://api.wordpress.org/themes/update-check/1.1/](https://api.wordpress.org/themes/update-check/1.1/)
   Response: Resolving timed out after 4513 milliseconds Transport: curl Call Stack:
   WP_Http->request() WP_Http->post() wp_remote_post() wp_update_themes() _maybe_update_themes()
   do_action(‘admin_init’) Component: Core Timeout: 4 Time: 5.0269
 * #2
    HTTP Request: POST [http://api.wordpress.org/themes/update-check/1.1/](http://api.wordpress.org/themes/update-check/1.1/)
   Response: Resolving timed out after 4513 milliseconds Transport: curl Call Stack:
   WP_Http->request() WP_Http->post() wp_remote_post() wp_update_themes() _maybe_update_themes()
   do_action(‘admin_init’) Component: Core Timeout: 4 Time: 5.4287
 * #3
    HTTP Request: POST [http://api.wordpress.org/core/browse-happy/1.1/](http://api.wordpress.org/core/browse-happy/1.1/)
   Response: Resolving timed out after 5515 milliseconds Transport: curl Call Stack:
   WP_Http->request() WP_Http->post() wp_remote_post() wp_check_browser_version()
   wp_dashboard_setup() Component: Core Timeout: 5 Time: 5.5156

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 *  [bitpath](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bitpath/)
 * (@bitpath)
 * [11 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/admin-extremely-slow-1/#post-5438907)
 * just fyi, we’re experiencing the same issue, which I also traced to many back-
   end calls to [https://api.wordpress.org/themes/update-check/1.1/](https://api.wordpress.org/themes/update-check/1.1/)
   and other api.wordpress.org sites on almost every admin page load.
    This is causing
   freezing in updates and logins and simple admin navigation. We’ve been able to
   mitigate it by disable update plugins and disabling cron, but it’s just a band-
   aid and doesn’t help with logins. This barely started happening to us about a
   couple weeks or so ago, and seemed timed with a WP update. I was hoping 4.2 would
   fix it but no go so far. CRON manager plugin could not help because the constant
   calls to api.wordpress.org were protected it said but disabling cron all together
   reduced this to logins and certain admin sections that need to call translations
   or intentional update checks. Did you find a solution?

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 * Last reply from: [bitpath](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bitpath/)
 * Last activity: [11 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/admin-extremely-slow-1/#post-5438907)
 * Status: not resolved

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