Title: Speeding up WP Last modified: August 18, 2016 --- # Speeding up WP * Anonymous * [21 years, 12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/speeding-up-wp/) * Hi, everybody. I’ve just installed WP 1.2 and I am really impressed by it’s feautures, altough it’s toooo slow on my server. I think I know why now: My WP runs on my _old_ Pentium-166 48 Mb. It’s quite good with static HTML pages and even light php/mysqp apps. But, as I say, it’s very, very slow with WP 1.2 (about 45 seconds to show a page on my private 100Mbit LAN, altough WP shows it renders the content in only 1 or 2 seconds.) I’ve discovered that when I switch off my Internet connection (“ifconfig eth1 down”) it takes even more time (minutes!) to display blog’s index (new installation with only 2 posts, as I say). It seems to be pinging or retrieving data from extern Internet websites, and it takes now longer because it waits for a timeout. As far as I need WP for internal use and for a very few of my friends, I don’t need telling [http://www.weblogs.com](http://www.weblogs.com) or other external sites that I’ve updated content, so I have had a look at the code and found external references to  http://gmpg.org/xfn/1, [http://purl.org/atom/ns](http://purl.org/atom/ns), [http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI…](http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI...) Do you know if it’s possible to disable WP from accessing external sites in order to speed it up. Are you experiencing similar situations? Greetings and thanks for this masterpiece!   Viewing 2 replies - 1 through 2 (of 2 total) * [MaxT](https://wordpress.org/support/users/maxt/) * (@maxt) * [21 years, 12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/speeding-up-wp/#post-55593) * [http://MaxT.dk](http://MaxT.dk) Right column, bottom: Page load time : 0.643s I suggest you get your WP on some decent server with like 1Gb ram 2Ghz or so ( most of webhosts run with this config today), then if you *still* have to wait 45 secs, it must be your installation of WP. Or maybe you got some loop on the main page. Regards * 1539 * [21 years, 12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/speeding-up-wp/#post-55599) * To answer one of your questions…. _Do you know if it’s possible to disable WP from accessing external sites in order to speed it up. Are you experiencing similar situations?_ Log into the Admin for WP, then go to Options and Discussion. Uncheck _Attempt to notify any Weblogs linked to from the article (slows down posting.)_. That might help. Viewing 2 replies - 1 through 2 (of 2 total) The topic ‘Speeding up WP’ is closed to new replies. * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/) * 2 replies * 3 participants * Last reply from: 1539 * Last activity: [21 years, 12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/speeding-up-wp/#post-55599) * Status: not resolved ## Topics ### Topics with no replies ### Non-support topics ### Resolved topics ### Unresolved topics ### All topics