Title: SSL Slowdown
Last modified: August 30, 2016

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# SSL Slowdown

 *  [cirrus965](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cirrus965/)
 * (@cirrus965)
 * [10 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/ssl-slowdown/)
 * I recently added an SSL certificate to my hosting. I tried using a couple plugins
   to force SSL for certain pages, but those pages loaded extremely slow, sometime
   over 2 minutes each. Now, somehow, my whole site is SSL and I have removed all
   plugins and the site URLs are both [http://](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/ssl-slowdown/?output_format=md).
   What can I do to speed up the SSL/https site? It is completely unusable.

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 *  [Henry Tam](https://wordpress.org/support/users/htam/)
 * (@htam)
 * [10 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/ssl-slowdown/#post-6873154)
 * Hi,
 * Is your website consistently slow loading those SSL protected pages all the time
   or it depends on time of day etc? If it is always slow, then I would check the
   plugins to see if they are causing the problem.
 * Otherwise, I have 2 suggestions.
 * 1. See if you can use CloudFlare to serve SSL pages. CloudFlare has worldwide
   servers which can help serve your pages to users based on location which will
   speed up load times.
 * 2. It would be beneficial to have your whole site SSL protected and you can do
   that using server config overrides. E.g., htaccess. This way, you don’t need 
   any plugins.
 * Note that SSL means more work for client and server and would mean a slightly
   longer page load time. But not 2 minutes. Two minutes would usually result in
   a timeout in most server configurations.
 * Can you report back if any of this helps?
 *  Thread Starter [cirrus965](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cirrus965/)
 * (@cirrus965)
 * [10 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/ssl-slowdown/#post-6873175)
 * I tried using CloudFlare, however the site still takes upwards of a minute to
   load sometimes. There is nothing that is very heavy on this website. Sometimes
   it loads a bit faster if I hit Enter again in the URL bar. I had tried activating
   SSL globally earlier, and that didn’t seem to help either.
 *  [Henry Tam](https://wordpress.org/support/users/hank0110/)
 * (@hank0110)
 * [10 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/ssl-slowdown/#post-6873245)
 * cirrus965,
 * Going back to your original post. Does non SSL protected sites load fast/normal?
 *  Thread Starter [cirrus965](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cirrus965/)
 * (@cirrus965)
 * [10 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/ssl-slowdown/#post-6873281)
 * Yes, however, I cannot access non SSL pages because for some reason my site defaults
   to SSL. I have no plugins that force SSL turned on, and the site URLs are all
   non-SSL [http://](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/ssl-slowdown/?output_format=md).
 *  [Henry Tam](https://wordpress.org/support/users/hank0110/)
 * (@hank0110)
 * [10 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/ssl-slowdown/#post-6873323)
 * For the whole site under SSL problem. Check for server override files like .htaccess
   for Apache or nginx configuration for Nginx. See if there is a configuration 
   in there that redirects all traffic to https. If you are using CloudFlare, check
   there to see if there are any rules doing the redirect at the DNS level.

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 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
 * 5 replies
 * 3 participants
 * Last reply from: [Henry Tam](https://wordpress.org/support/users/hank0110/)
 * Last activity: [10 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/ssl-slowdown/#post-6873323)
 * Status: not resolved

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