Title: Website Lagging horribly Last modified: August 30, 2016 --- # Website Lagging horribly * [KellyHoltz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kellyholtz/) * (@kellyholtz) * [10 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/website-lagging-horribly/) * Hi ben! * My site has been lagging on and off for the last month or so. What I mean is that the front end sometimes takes a pretty long time to load and at the same time I cannot load up the dashboard either. I’ve talked to my site hosting company and they’ve suggested I upgrade my plan or talk to the theme developer. * Do you have any ideas as to what could be my site’s problem? * Thank you! Viewing 8 replies - 1 through 8 (of 8 total) * Theme Author [Ben Sibley](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bensibley/) * (@bensibley) * [10 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/website-lagging-horribly/#post-6782324) * Hey Kelly, * Could you share a link to your site, I forget the URL. Once I take a look at it I’ll know what’s slowing it down. * Thread Starter [KellyHoltz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kellyholtz/) * (@kellyholtz) * [10 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/website-lagging-horribly/#post-6782392) * I’m sorry Ben. * Thanks a lot. It seems to be running fine right now. But yesterday it was nearly impossible to do anything with. With that said the hosts website was a tad difficult to get on as well after I finished talking to them which I found off putting. * Anyways, if there’s anything you see that might be causing issues, I’d love to know. * Theme Author [Ben Sibley](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bensibley/) * (@bensibley) * [10 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/website-lagging-horribly/#post-6782452) * It is loading fairly quickly now for me too. Here’s an analysis of the site load: [http://pics.competethemes.com/image/0q3E0i191k1v](http://pics.competethemes.com/image/0q3E0i191k1v)( there are more files below that didn’t fit in the screenshot). * The files are actually loading quickly and quite a few of them (outside the screenshot) are being _deferred_ which is great. The images are all under 100kb which is really good too. * There are two things slowing down the site. First 64 files being loaded isn’t that bad, but could be improved. A plugin like [Minqueue](https://wordpress.org/plugins/minqueue/) is a bit technical, but could help you combine some of the Javascript and CSS files making your site load faster due to fewer file requests. More importantly though, that long green bar at the top shows your site taking nearly 3s to connect to. That number varied between 2-6s on each load I tested. That slowness is due to hosting. A good host will connect in under 1s. * Thread Starter [KellyHoltz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kellyholtz/) * (@kellyholtz) * [10 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/website-lagging-horribly/#post-6782475) * Thank you very much Ben for checking that for me! * The hosts were having a server issue the last couple of days. I’m not completely sure if it’s fixed or not but at least now I know where the problem lies. * I’ve recently been trying to optimize my site for loading quickness and it seems to be working. I’ll try that plugin you suggest but are there any more tips or plugins you might suggest? * Thank you for your time and efforts! * Thread Starter [KellyHoltz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kellyholtz/) * (@kellyholtz) * [10 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/website-lagging-horribly/#post-6782493) * Hey Ben, * I’m experimenting with adding more pages to my site and the primary menu where the new pages show up, the text is not really noticeable. Is there any way to increase the font size, change the color and/or font, and is there anyway to change the alignment of where the page menus are lined up? At the moment they line up on the right. * Thanks * Kelly * Theme Author [Ben Sibley](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bensibley/) * (@bensibley) * [10 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/website-lagging-horribly/#post-6782524) * You’re welcome 🙂 * The only other things I would consider would be using a CDN and caching, if you’re not using either already. Additional performance improvements are quite incremental and harder to implement. * For the menu items, try adding this CSS: * ``` .menu-secondary-items a { opacity: 1; } ``` * That will make them much brighter and more noticeable. * This CSS can be used to change their color: * ``` .menu-secondary-items a, .menu-secondary-items a:link, .menu-secondary-items a:visited { color: #43b3c4; } ``` * And the following should center all the menu items on the page: * ``` #menu-secondary { float: none; text-align: center; } ``` * Thread Starter [KellyHoltz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kellyholtz/) * (@kellyholtz) * [10 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/website-lagging-horribly/#post-6782548) * Thanks! * I did run into one problem though and it’s my fault for not being more clear as to which menu but my intention was for the primary menu that is supposed to appear above the posts to be edited. * Theme Author [Ben Sibley](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bensibley/) * (@bensibley) * [10 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/website-lagging-horribly/#post-6782549) * Ok no worries 🙂 * In that case, you can use the following CSS instead: * ``` .menu-primary-items a { opacity: 1; } .menu-primary-items a, .menu-primary-items a:link, .menu-primary-items a:visited { color: #43b3c4; } #menu-primary-items { text-align: center; } ``` Viewing 8 replies - 1 through 8 (of 8 total) The topic ‘Website Lagging horribly’ is closed to new replies. * ![](https://i0.wp.com/themes.svn.wordpress.org/tracks/1.81/screenshot.png) * Tracks * [Support Threads](https://wordpress.org/support/theme/tracks/) * [Active Topics](https://wordpress.org/support/theme/tracks/active/) * [Unresolved Topics](https://wordpress.org/support/theme/tracks/unresolved/) * [Reviews](https://wordpress.org/support/theme/tracks/reviews/) * 8 replies * 2 participants * Last reply from: [Ben Sibley](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bensibley/) * Last activity: [10 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/website-lagging-horribly/#post-6782549) * Status: not resolved