Try to identify the cause, is a plugin causing the site to load slow, or is it the theme?
You could temporarily try switching to one of the default WordPress themes, or disable all plugins and enable plugins one-by-one and checking the speed in-between.
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In addition to what Rajesh suggested, here are my two cents.
Slowness/high CPU usage could be due to (but not limited to):
– A poor or memory intensive theme. Switch to the WordPress default theme and test loading time and see if you see a difference. If you do, may be your theme can be re-written to be more efficient.
– Poor or memory intensive plugins. One by one disable plugins and test loading time and see if you see a difference. If you do, may be that plugin can be re-written to be more efficient.
– your server is slow (e.g., “process hang”, overload, you get a lot of visitors, other problems, etc.); generally, every inexpensive host out there is slow.
– I don’t know if you use CloudFlare or not but if you do I would suggest deactivating it and seeing if it helps. Also sometimes a good purge of the cache on CloudFlare can help.
– Lots of images can cause slowness. Also images loaded without compression.
Test your site at (free online testing):
http://gtmetrix.com/leverage-browser-caching.html
http://www.webpagetest.org/
http://tools.pingdom.com
https://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/insights/
Also, review these resources:
– http://www.wptavern.com/determining-which-plugins-are-slowing-your-site-down
– http://wordpress.stackexchange.com/questions/656/is-there-a-way-to-measure-server-resource-cpu-usage-by-wp-plugins/
– https://wordpress.org/plugins/plugins-speed-test/
– try installing the Query Monitor plugin and seeing how long the queries are taking.
– http://www.wptavern.com/my-performance-woes
– http://codex.wordpress.org/WordPress_Optimization
– http://codex.wordpress.org/High_Traffic_Tips_For_WordPress
– http://codex.wordpress.org/WordPress_Optimization/Caching
– http://codex.wordpress.org/WordPress_Optimization/WordPress_Performance
