Title: WordPress site dragging Last modified: August 30, 2016 --- # WordPress site dragging * [themaxonline](https://wordpress.org/support/users/themaxonline/) * (@themaxonline) * [10 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-site-dragging/) * For the last month and a half to two months, I have been experiencing unusual drag on my WordPress site. It’s hosted on my server (Lunarpages). * The way it drags is what I find unusual. It’s like a bottleneck affect where nothing happens for anywhere from ten seconds to over a minute and then everything comes through as normal. * I did some troubleshooting of my own including the usual deactivating all plug- ins and reactivating them one-by-one. This had little affect overall. I also installed and activated W3 Super Cache, WP Optimize, and Query Monitor to see if it would pick up anything, and put in a generic robots.txt in case it was from bots. * The wait time isn’t consistently slow and doesn’t seem to follow any pattern. There have been times when the load time of my site was almost instant and others where it was up to 90 seconds. But it is almost always slower when I’m using the dashboard. To create one post that would normally take a minute to set up and post can take ages. Every action I perform in the dashboard results in that same wait time over again. Pressing “new post”; pressing “save draft”; clicking“ add media”; waiting for images to load; typing in the image search if I need to; selecting the image and waiting for its information to load; clicking ‘post to blog’; waiting for the code to show up in the blog text. Each of these actions takes from 10-60+ seconds each. While these happen, I sometimes get the ‘Connection lost: We’re backing up this post in your browser’ error, though it always reconnects. * I have contacted my server host and they haven’t been able to find out anything in particular. I even gave them my login info so they could investigate my dashboard and again, nothing. * The only thing I can think of that would have changed around the time it started to go slow was when I got emails telling me my WordPress was updated to 4.1.4 and 4.1.5, something I didn’t do myself (it’s 4.2.2 right now). After that, I started to get constant errors of: Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 33554432 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 7680 bytes) in /home/thema20/public_html/wp- admin/includes/class-wp-upgrader.php on line 1963 These occurred both on my website, meaning it wouldn’t load most of the time, and in my dashboard, preventing me from doing much. Changes were then made to my .htaccess and ini.php files to increase the WP Server Limit, which fixed that issue. Shortly after was when I noticed everything was dragging. * Logging into my server and looking at the Resource Usage Logs, this message comes up: “Your site has been limited within the past 24 hours CPU resources were limited for your site Virtual memory resources were limited for your site” It also shows the Virtual Memory Usage as being really high, maxing out at several points over the last 24 hours. * I’m not sure if any of this might explain what the issue could be and whether it is WordPress-related or something actually with my server. * Thanks for any help! * EDIT: Apologies, my site is [http://www.shuffleplay.net](http://www.shuffleplay.net) Viewing 2 replies - 1 through 2 (of 2 total) * [Bill](https://wordpress.org/support/users/chubbycrow/) * (@chubbycrow) * [10 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-site-dragging/#post-6316553) * > The wait time isn’t consistently slow and doesn’t seem to follow any pattern. * Sometimes these intermittent troubles can be traced back to the shared hosting environment where there may be bad players folded into the mix. WP issues _tend_ to be (but not always) more regular in my experience: it works or it doesn’t. * I personally have had similar issues in the past which ultimately only ceased when I convinced my host to move me to a different server. The result was immediate. * Thread Starter [themaxonline](https://wordpress.org/support/users/themaxonline/) * (@themaxonline) * [10 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-site-dragging/#post-6316729) * Is it entirely possible the loading issues are an issue of my own internet connection or computer? I would find it strange that my server hosts didn’t detect any issue from their end as far as load times go and it almost seems as if they aren’t experiencing the same issues I have been. I should mention that I don’t experience any sort of loading issues with any other website I visit so I feel ridiculous even making that suggestion but if the hosts didn’t pick anything up, it makes me question the possibilities of where the issue even stems from. Viewing 2 replies - 1 through 2 (of 2 total) The topic ‘WordPress site dragging’ is closed to new replies. * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/) * 2 replies * 2 participants * Last reply from: [themaxonline](https://wordpress.org/support/users/themaxonline/) * Last activity: [10 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-site-dragging/#post-6316729) * Status: not resolved ## Topics ### Topics with no replies ### Non-support topics ### Resolved topics ### Unresolved topics ### All topics