Title: WordPress very slow
Last modified: August 31, 2016

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# WordPress very slow

 *  [hchanbluebell](https://wordpress.org/support/users/hchanbluebell/)
 * (@hchanbluebell)
 * [10 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-very-slow-7/)
 * Hi, my site
    b20.f42.myftpupload.com
 * is running very slow.
    Is that because of the theme or my DB?
 * I have over 12000 posts in backend.
 * Thanks for your help.

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 *  [Liam Stewart](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gingeds/)
 * (@gingeds)
 * [10 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-very-slow-7/#post-7149057)
 * My guess is the hosting is also an issue.
 * Try getting a VPS and real domain 🙂
 *  Moderator [t-p](https://wordpress.org/support/users/t-p/)
 * (@t-p)
 * [10 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-very-slow-7/#post-7149064)
 * 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://gtmetrix.com/leverage-browser-caching.html)
   OR [http://www.webpagetest.org/](http://www.webpagetest.org/) [http://tools.pingdom.com](http://tools.pingdom.com)
   [https://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/insights/](https://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/insights/)
 * Also, review these resources:
    – [http://www.wptavern.com/determining-which-plugins-are-slowing-your-site-down](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/](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/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/plugins-speed-test/)–
   try installing the [Query Monitor plugin ](https://wordpress.org/plugins/query-monitor/)
   and seeing how long the queries are taking. – [http://www.wptavern.com/my-performance-woes](http://www.wptavern.com/my-performance-woes)–
   [http://codex.wordpress.org/WordPress_Optimization](http://codex.wordpress.org/WordPress_Optimization)–
   [http://codex.wordpress.org/High_Traffic_Tips_For_WordPress](http://codex.wordpress.org/High_Traffic_Tips_For_WordPress)–
   [http://codex.wordpress.org/WordPress_Optimization/Caching](http://codex.wordpress.org/WordPress_Optimization/Caching)–
   [http://codex.wordpress.org/WordPress_Optimization/WordPress_Performance](http://codex.wordpress.org/WordPress_Optimization/WordPress_Performance)

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 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
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 * Last reply from: [t-p](https://wordpress.org/support/users/t-p/)
 * Last activity: [10 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-very-slow-7/#post-7149064)
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