Title: Extremely slow loading website AND admin
Last modified: August 22, 2016

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# Extremely slow loading website AND admin

 *  [whitesea](https://wordpress.org/support/users/whitesea/)
 * (@whitesea)
 * [11 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/extremely-slow-loading-website-and-admin/)
 * Hi everyone,
 * I installed WP on my domain a few weeks ago and right from the very start it’s
   been running extremely slow (takes about 5 Mississippi seconds to load). My admin
   panel runs just as slow. I’ve tried it on several different computers and networks
   and still slow, and my hosting provider (DreamHost) says it’s not them. They 
   switched me to a different server with no change.
 * Keep in mind at this point I have one theme installed (Contango) and six plug-
   ins (Askimet, Hello Dolly, Hotfix, Jetpack by WordPress, Ultimate Coming Soon
   Page, and WP Super Cache – all but the Ultimate Coming Soon Page are disabled).
   I just got this started so I don’t have a bunch of content clogging things up.
 * Website: [http://hazelandroman.com/](http://hazelandroman.com/)
 * Any ideas? Thanks in advance.

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 *  [lisa](https://wordpress.org/support/users/contentiskey/)
 * (@contentiskey)
 * [11 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/extremely-slow-loading-website-and-admin/#post-5284561)
 * have you tried any speed test tools? (I tested your website)
    while your website
   is behind the coming soon page it’s hard for me to see what’s going on. is it
   still slow after you disable coming soon page plugin? have you tried a different
   theme to see if the theme causing issue?
 *  [sffandom](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sffandom/)
 * (@sffandom)
 * [11 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/extremely-slow-loading-website-and-admin/#post-5284566)
 * Your coming soon page is being loaded by a WordPress plugin, it seems, and it
   loads very quickly for me.
 * Things that can slow down a WordPress installation include:
    - Loading a lot of images on a page
    - Unmoderated rogue crawler traffic
    - Anything that triggers a massive database query
    - Unoptimized or damaged SQL tables
 * Since yours is a new installation you might have an issue with rogue crawlers
   hammering your servers. You can try to block them on your site but that won’t
   do much for other people’s sites.
 * Dreamhost is one of the Web hosting providers whose servers I have to block in
   my firewalls. They are by no means the worst but many WordPress installations
   have been compromised by botnets.
 * You should look at your raw server log files to see if there are a lot of requests
   coming in for your “wp-login.php” script. If so you’ll want to defend it against
   those requests (normal visitors don’t need to log into a Website that is not 
   inviting the to).
 * Another possibility (although I cannot confirm this) is that there is a conflict
   between the HOTFIX plugin and WordPress. That plugin has not been updated in 
   quite a while and WordPress now installs its own security updates.
 *  Thread Starter [whitesea](https://wordpress.org/support/users/whitesea/)
 * (@whitesea)
 * [11 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/extremely-slow-loading-website-and-admin/#post-5284696)
 * Hi contentiskey, thank you for the response.
 * I haven’t tried any speed test tools, maybe that’ll be my next move. My website
   is still just an empty theme, so there isn’t anything to see. I’ve disabled the
   coming soon page plug-in to no avail. The slowness started before I installed
   this current theme, so I don’t think that’s the issue.
 *  Thread Starter [whitesea](https://wordpress.org/support/users/whitesea/)
 * (@whitesea)
 * [11 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/extremely-slow-loading-website-and-admin/#post-5284697)
 * sffandom, thank you for the reply. I’m not sure what a lot of this means but 
   I appreciate the help. I’ll delete the Hotfix plug-in and see if that makes a
   difference.
 *  [sffandom](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sffandom/)
 * (@sffandom)
 * [11 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/extremely-slow-loading-website-and-admin/#post-5284701)
 * It’s hard to provide specific answers to questions like “why is my site running
   slow” because there are so many possible reasons. You have to learn some basic
   admin skills and practice being watchful.

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 * Last reply from: [sffandom](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sffandom/)
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