Title: Website going extremely slow
Last modified: August 30, 2016

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# Website going extremely slow

 *  [tyosim](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tyosim/)
 * (@tyosim)
 * [10 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/website-going-extremely-slow/)
 * My website is incredibly slow. I deleted unused plugins, checked for vulnerabilities,
   and checked the cache options. Nothing seems to work. Any advice, suggestions?
   My website is hosted with Dreamhost.

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 *  [Fotis](https://wordpress.org/support/users/fstat/)
 * (@fstat)
 * [10 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/website-going-extremely-slow/#post-6186894)
 * What is your website’s address?
 *  [Matthew](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kidsguide/)
 * (@kidsguide)
 * [10 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/website-going-extremely-slow/#post-6186896)
 * I would suggest doing the following:
    - **Compressing all of your images** – You can download lots of plugins or if
      you prefer computer software that will compress images for you. Compressing
      images can reduces the size of the images by up to 80%.
    - **Are plugins slowing it down?** – I would [download P3](https://wordpress.org/plugins/p3-profiler/)
      and run a scan. By doing this you can see what plugins are slowing down your
      website.
    - **Cloudflare** – If you are using CloudFlare I would try deactivating it to
      see if it speeds up the website. Sometime things like this can have opposite
      affects on your page speed.
    - **Disable all Cache** – I would try clearing and disabling all your cache 
      to see if it helps
 * Let me know if any of this helped.
 *  Thread Starter [tyosim](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tyosim/)
 * (@tyosim)
 * [10 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/website-going-extremely-slow/#post-6186916)
 * kickly.co
 *  [Fotis](https://wordpress.org/support/users/fstat/)
 * (@fstat)
 * [10 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/website-going-extremely-slow/#post-6186954)
 * It loads pretty quickly. Have a look at an analysis of page load time
    [http://tools.pingdom.com/fpt/#!/dvKyqD/kickly.co](http://tools.pingdom.com/fpt/#!/dvKyqD/kickly.co)
 *  [maxinehowarth](https://wordpress.org/support/users/maxinehowarth/)
 * (@maxinehowarth)
 * [10 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/website-going-extremely-slow/#post-6186968)
 * If you are using large images make sure they are in RGB format this drastically
   reduces the file size which also reduces page load time.
 *  [Matthew](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kidsguide/)
 * (@kidsguide)
 * [10 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/website-going-extremely-slow/#post-6187050)
 * It appears to be the browser. On Firefox your website loaded quite fast but on
   Internet Explorer it took a little time.

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