Title: S.o.Slow WP site
Last modified: August 30, 2016

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# S.o.Slow WP site

 *  [Karinshibata](https://wordpress.org/support/users/karinshibata/)
 * (@karinshibata)
 * [11 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/slow-wp-site/)
 * Hello everyone,
 * I know this problem of slowness must be a recurrent problem to a lot of people.
 * I tried for weeks to learn about optimization, read a lot of articles and tutorials,
   diagnosis with site speed test, desactivating plugin, adding a cache plugin… 
   I think my pictures were too heavy so I put a photo optimizers plugin…
    And my
   site got slower, lost my stats and even got down… I am really lost and now I 
   am scared to make any changes… I wonder if it comes from the content, th plugin
   or just my host. How can I diagnosis if the problem is external ? (hosting server
   problem?)
 * Thank you for reading me and for any help.
 * PS: I know we are not supposed to offer any pay but as I know it can take time
   to help me to sort this out. Is it aloud to offer French or Japanese lessons 
   in exchange? ;)))
 * [http://karinshibata.com/](http://karinshibata.com/)

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 *  [Josh](https://wordpress.org/support/users/josh401/)
 * (@josh401)
 * [11 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/slow-wp-site/#post-6330985)
 * Hi,
 * I know this can be frustrating. But stay positive; and let’s see if we can’t 
   find a little more information.
 * Yes, your site is slow. But your site is also fairly simple in terms of pages
   and media. The site should load fine without the use of caching and optimizing
   plugins (although they can certainly help in many cases).
 * I think the issue is something different.
 * I loaded your site over [gtmetrix](http://gtmetrix.com). Go to the link; enter
   your website; let it analyze the content. Then, click “Waterfall” from the tabbed
   content.
 * Look at the first item. It’s about 9 to 10 seconds of waiting for the response.
 * Who is your hosting provider?
 *  Thread Starter [Karinshibata](https://wordpress.org/support/users/karinshibata/)
 * (@karinshibata)
 * [11 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/slow-wp-site/#post-6330988)
 * Hello Josh!
    Thank you so much for your support…
 * Fairly simple because I got rid of all the funky widgets newbies tend to put 
   everywhere (like the fun to decorate your first Christmas cake) 😉
 * I also tried Gtmetrix but it is complex to interpret the results. Like a blood
   test result wihout being a docteur… 😉
    Oh it seems better today…Usually it is
   around 20sec
 * My host is Web Hosting Pad and my site got often server errors but they were 
   very efficient to it back fairly quickly (couple hours).
 * Thank you again 🙂

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 * Last activity: [11 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/slow-wp-site/#post-6330988)
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