Title: Huge Performance Issue
Last modified: April 27, 2020

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# Huge Performance Issue

 *  [simonmsb](https://wordpress.org/support/users/simonmsb/)
 * (@simonmsb)
 * [5 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/huge-performance-issue/)
 * Hey there 🙂
 * I really do hope I’m on the right forum.
    I come to you with unfortunate and 
   desperate thoughts. For some weeks now, I’ve been facing a problem that I just
   can’t seem to solve.
 * Basically, my website has pretty decent GTmetrix stats, however, it still remains
   slow to load. The most important part is that, when I compare my stats with other
   sites stats, my site has better ones and is still slower. Here are some screenshots
   of my actual stats, if needed:
    [https://ibb.co/XxnHHfH](https://ibb.co/XxnHHfH)
   [https://ibb.co/wcJZWjb](https://ibb.co/wcJZWjb) [https://ibb.co/Trmd8gb](https://ibb.co/Trmd8gb)
 * I’ve already done a lot of useful things to improve site performance. It took
   me a lot of time since I’m totally not familiar with that.
 * My website’s name is [https://simoncutsem.com](https://simoncutsem.com) and I’m
   using Astra as a theme. I also host my website with HostGator. I’ve already contacted
   HostGator’s support so that they’d check their servers but they said that everything
   was fine on their end.
 * If you could help me solve that major performance issue, I’d be forever grateful.
 * Best,
 * Simon
 * The page I need help with: _[[log in](https://login.wordpress.org/?redirect_to=https%3A%2F%2Fwordpress.org%2Fsupport%2Ftopic%2Fhuge-performance-issue%2F%3Foutput_format%3Dmd&locale=en_US)
   to see the link]_

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 *  [SJW](https://wordpress.org/support/users/whitsey/)
 * (@whitsey)
 * [5 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/huge-performance-issue/#post-12735815)
 * There are so many factors that go into the speed of a website. GTMetrix and Pingdom
   are good tools to help guide you but they cant help with everything.
 * On the WordPress website side of things, you’ve done most:
    – Implement caching–
   Minify and reduce the number of resources loaded – Reduce the size of the page
   and images loaded – Try using lazy load for images off screen
 * Other factors:
    – DNS – how long the DNS takes to reply – if you’re using the
   shared hosting DNS, it wont be fast – Hosting — How long for TTFB (responsive
   of server) — How many entry processes your account has to process requests (e.
   g. if your account is limited to 10 (normal on shared hosting) and you have 58
   resources, it will only load 10 at a time and all other subsequent resources 
   have to wait until one finishes and is available) — CPU and Memory of server –
   same as a PC, the more CPU and memory, the faster the processes run and complete.–
   Bandwidth – how much bandwidth the hosting company allows – it will throttle 
   connections to shared hosting accounts to ensure premium accounts get premium
   services.
 * I have also found on shared hosting services that speeds fluctuate depending 
   on time of day – afternoon and early evening are slower because of the increased
   traffic online…
 * Get a premium Hosting account
    Get a premium DNS hosting service Get a CDN service
 *  Thread Starter [simonmsb](https://wordpress.org/support/users/simonmsb/)
 * (@simonmsb)
 * [5 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/huge-performance-issue/#post-12741652)
 * Hey there! 🙂
 * Really appreciate the time you took to explain all this.
 * I think that changing my hosting might be a good solution.
 * I’ll leave the topic as resolved if that solved my issue.

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## Tags

 * [optimization](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/optimization/)
 * [performance](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/performance/)
 * [speed](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/speed/)

 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
 * 2 replies
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 * Last reply from: [simonmsb](https://wordpress.org/support/users/simonmsb/)
 * Last activity: [5 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/huge-performance-issue/#post-12741652)
 * Status: not resolved

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