Are they exact backup / restores of the same site or do they have different plugins etc. configured.
Are you able to post a link to the fast & slow sites?
It’s hard to say without looking under the cover as it all appears to be server response time so the server it doing something …. and then coming back. It’s only going to be possible to know more by getting in there and looking at it.
You could setup caching or try an optimise it but I would consider creating a new account somewhere and doing a backup/restore to if it behaves in the same way somewhere else. Have you contacted the hosting company? Maybe the shared server that is on is completely overloaded.
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Thank you for your response. I obviously have a few things to look into.
Another possibility is to rebuild the site from scratch it would not take that long. Also I could move it back to Linux Deluxe hosting using a back up. Another point is that when I access readme.html in the root directory the response is immediate. Is the problem related to the data base?
It sounds like it would be a good idea to move it back so you can play with that other site a bit.
After moving it back I would completely delete the files & db & do a fresh blank installation and see if that responds the same way.
I did a similar thing with my website wpjobz I just created it again from scratch and then only added the plugins/themes I needed and then imported the content. I can’t say why it was slow but now its not 🙂
To speed up my site from a blank install I installed a caching plugin (wp super cache but wp total cache would also work) and CloudFlare which acts as a cdn. I also then used CloudFlare’s free ssl service which made it super quick. Finally I installed a smush plugin and make sure all my images were optimised.
Those three changes only took about an hour and on Alerta its an average time of 1.160 and Pingdom 1.15s.
Thanks for your post. I will be working along the lines you are suggesting.
I will update progress.
According to GTMetrix I now have a page load speed of 1.6sec which is fine for me.I rebuilt the site firstly as localhost on my computer and then transferred the site manually to my C Panel hosting account. This performance is without installing any extra plugins like wp super cache.
I still have some work to do with the pictures and also to install a Google plugin for traffic monitoring. I have no idea what the problem was other than it may have been to do the backup I used.
