Title: Website speed – Static caching issue
Last modified: November 23, 2018

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# Website speed – Static caching issue

 *  [elixircbd](https://wordpress.org/support/users/elixircbd/)
 * (@elixircbd)
 * [7 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/website-speed-static-caching-issue/)
 * Been having trouble with my page speed the last few days. It takes around 5 second
   for my website to even start to load. Even though I use Cloudflare CDN I seem
   to have a slow site. After trying almost everything, I contacted my hosting provider,
   HostGator. The live chat guy said he would request a reboot of the server. This
   however hasn’t happened because I received this reply by email:
 * In reviewing the site, I am seeing that the largest issue in your site’s speed
   is that the site has multiple requests which are attempting to refresh the content
   despite the caching being in place. In effect, this element of your combination
   of theme and plugins is rendering the caching ineffective. You can review this
   using the waterfall section at the following URL
 * [https://gtmetrix.com/reports/elixircbd.com/jzxgGcft](https://gtmetrix.com/reports/elixircbd.com/jzxgGcft)
 * The issue is the amount of time that the front page is taking to long to generate,
   along with other resources. You need to improve your page design so that static
   caching will actually work as static caching, and push everything that you can
   to be precached by CloudFlare.
 * So my questions are: does it look as if HostGator are correct and if so what 
   do I do?
 * The page I need help with: _[[log in](https://login.wordpress.org/?redirect_to=https%3A%2F%2Fwordpress.org%2Fsupport%2Ftopic%2Fwebsite-speed-static-caching-issue%2F%3Foutput_format%3Dmd&locale=en_US)
   to see the link]_

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 *  [graphicscove](https://wordpress.org/support/users/graphicscove/)
 * (@graphicscove)
 * [7 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/website-speed-static-caching-issue/#post-10909350)
 * Even before anything on your page it loading, it seems it’s taking 5 seconds 
   to connect. This is probably the cloudflare caching.
 * Strip out anything you don’t need from the site. There are a few resources that
   are taking 3/4 seconds to load.
 * That said though, loading the site in the browser from the UK was pretty snappy.
 *  Thread Starter [elixircbd](https://wordpress.org/support/users/elixircbd/)
 * (@elixircbd)
 * [7 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/website-speed-static-caching-issue/#post-10909363)
 * Thanks for your time [@graphicscove](https://wordpress.org/support/users/graphicscove/)
 * I’ve stripped out what I don’t need on my site already. It seems ajax is taking
   about 4 or 5 seconds to load. Surely my site should be connecting faster initially.
   Well, that’s what I want anyway.

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 * Last reply from: [elixircbd](https://wordpress.org/support/users/elixircbd/)
 * Last activity: [7 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/website-speed-static-caching-issue/#post-10909363)
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