Title: My site is slow
Last modified: August 24, 2016

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# My site is slow

 *  [brotan](https://wordpress.org/support/users/brotan/)
 * (@brotan)
 * [11 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/questions-regarding/)
 * > [View post on imgur.com](https://imgur.com/HR8fzqZ)
 * Hi all,
 * need help here
 * My site ([http://www.brotan.tk/?page_id=66133](http://www.brotan.tk/?page_id=66133))
   is currently under development and was trying out the page speed
 * the thing that i am amused is the 1st line of the webpagetest instruction
 * looking at above snapshot, it is using > 10 sec to access .
 * the issue is, at times it can be less than 1 sec and some time > 10 sec and some
   times anything in between. it is not consistent
 * i have check with my host, they say it is related to index.php and that file 
   is only a few lines
 * but they told me to open that file, all contents needs to be loaded
 * my questions are
 * 1) is it true that line is related to index.php?
    2) if true, how do i improve
   that? 3) also i don’t understand if i didn’t change anything in my site during
   multiple testing, when the value changes so much?
 * thanks a bunch

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 *  [Alen](https://wordpress.org/support/users/alenma/)
 * (@alenma)
 * [11 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/questions-regarding/#post-6082425)
 * As I can see it the Green Part is the Time to First Byte and
    First Byte: The
   First Byte time is the time from when the user started navigating to the page
   until the first bit of the server response arrived. The bulk of this time is 
   usually referred to the “back-end time” and is the amount of time the server 
   spent building the page for the user.
 * I do think it is the server side not the index.php.
 *  [Lalit Nagrath](https://wordpress.org/support/users/laliz/)
 * (@laliz)
 * [11 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/questions-regarding/#post-6082431)
 * > the issue is, at times it can be less than 1 sec and some time > 10 sec and
   > some times anything in between. it is not consistent
 * this most probably then has to do with your server.you can create a php file 
   with code
    `<?php phpinfo(); ?>` and run it in webpagetest site and if that is
   even slow , you can be sure your server is bottleneck.
 *  Thread Starter [brotan](https://wordpress.org/support/users/brotan/)
 * (@brotan)
 * [11 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/questions-regarding/#post-6082434)
 * > [View post on imgur.com](https://imgur.com/NRkxDCh)
 * the host keep saying the content of my site is too big and for index.php to load,
   it need to load the whole content
 * i am not an expert in this, so i can’t prove what they say is true or not
 *  Thread Starter [brotan](https://wordpress.org/support/users/brotan/)
 * (@brotan)
 * [11 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/questions-regarding/#post-6082518)
 * > this most probably then has to do with your server.you can create a php file
   > with code
   >  <?php phpinfo(); ?> and run it in webpagetest site and if that is
   > even slow , you can be sure your server is bottleneck.
 * [http://www.brotan.tk/server_test.php](http://www.brotan.tk/server_test.php)
 * done. but not sure where to look. can you advice?
 *  [Lalit Nagrath](https://wordpress.org/support/users/laliz/)
 * (@laliz)
 * [11 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/questions-regarding/#post-6082525)
 * what i mean was to run this URL in Webpage test to check server response[http://gtmetrix.com/reports/www.brotan.tk/sefduiCT](http://gtmetrix.com/reports/www.brotan.tk/sefduiCT)
 * you should remove this file now.results Looks ok to me. server doesnt seem as
   slow as on your website.so it has something to do with your Themes/plugin/php
   which is slowing you down
 * what your Support guy is saying to reduce content on your home page . you have
   lot of images which can slow website down.
 * [http://www.webpagetest.org/result/150501_5M_QXF/1/details/](http://www.webpagetest.org/result/150501_5M_QXF/1/details/)
   are you using cache? it doesnt seem to be working.
 * you can try a [plugin named p3 profiler](https://wordpress.org/plugins/p3-profiler/),
   it usually tells if some of your plugin is slowing you down
 *  Thread Starter [brotan](https://wordpress.org/support/users/brotan/)
 * (@brotan)
 * [11 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/questions-regarding/#post-6082537)
 * > what i mean was to run this URL in Webpage test to check server responsehttp://
   > gtmetrix.com/reports/www.brotan.tk/sefduiCT
   > you should remove this file now.results Looks ok to me. server doesnt seem 
   > as slow as on your website.so it has something to do with your Themes/plugin/
   > php which is slowing you down
   > what your Support guy is saying to reduce content on your home page . you have
   > lot of images which can slow website down.
   > [http://www.webpagetest.org/result/150501_5M_QXF/1/details/](http://www.webpagetest.org/result/150501_5M_QXF/1/details/)
   > are you using cache? it doesnt seem to be working.
   > you can try a plugin named p3 profiler , it usually tells if some of your plugin
   > is slowing you down
 * Thanks for your feedback
 * the thing that bother me the most is the red box in the snapshot
 * > [View post on imgur.com](https://imgur.com/KaFrlW7)
 * if i am not wrong (correct me if i am), that is like accessing the domain but
   not going through the whole site content
 * my previous host when with cache, is less than 1 sec for that 1st line
 * but my current host has big fluctuation between < 1sec to > 10 sec within any
   content change
 * can that still be due to the plugin or content of my site itself?
 *  [Jason G.](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jggeorgebellsouthnet/)
 * (@jggeorgebellsouthnet)
 * [11 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/questions-regarding/#post-6082551)
 * You can still experience slowness due to plugins and content (especially media)
   if the files are large. I always install a caching plugin depending on which 
   web host I use. Content Delivery Networks (CDN’s) help out a lot as well if you
   have lots of images to display.
 * In addition to checking your plugins, I would consider getting WP Rocket. It 
   is a premium plugin ($39 a year), but I have read really great reviews on it.
   Here is their site if you would like to check it out: [http://wp-rocket.me/pricing/](http://wp-rocket.me/pricing/)
 * Hope this helps!
 *  [salescart](https://wordpress.org/support/users/codeaholic/)
 * (@codeaholic)
 * [11 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/questions-regarding/#post-6082552)
 * I think it’s your design. You have huge images loading up for a slide show and
   then you are going to load up all those images for your products on your homepage
   too? Not only is it slow, but its going to get much, much, much slower by the
   time you are all done. Images take time to download. You have to optimize them
   and deliver them in increments.
 * You can’t get everything done on just one page: your home page.
 *  Thread Starter [brotan](https://wordpress.org/support/users/brotan/)
 * (@brotan)
 * [11 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/questions-regarding/#post-6082576)
 * > I think it’s your design. You have huge images loading up for a slide show 
   > and then you are going to load up all those images for your products on your
   > homepage too? Not only is it slow, but its going to get much, much, much slower
   > by the time you are all done. Images take time to download. You have to optimize
   > them and deliver them in increments.
   > You can’t get everything done on just one page: your home page.
 * this is just the template provided by the theme developer. of course finally 
   i will use smaller size
 * the only thing i am having difficulties to understand is the 1st line of command,
   which is to access the domain or page (i am NOT talking about the subsequent 
   command lines)
 * which is that 1st command line can fluctuate between < 1 sec to > 10sec?

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