Title: hellomcfly's Replies | WordPress.org --- # hellomcfly [ ](https://wordpress.org/support/users/hellomcfly/) * [Profile](https://wordpress.org/support/users/hellomcfly/) * [Topics Started](https://wordpress.org/support/users/hellomcfly/topics/) * [Replies Created](https://wordpress.org/support/users/hellomcfly/replies/) * [Reviews Written](https://wordpress.org/support/users/hellomcfly/reviews/) * [Topics Replied To](https://wordpress.org/support/users/hellomcfly/replied-to/) * [Engagements](https://wordpress.org/support/users/hellomcfly/engagements/) * [Favorites](https://wordpress.org/support/users/hellomcfly/favorites/) Search replies: ## Forum Replies Created Viewing 6 replies - 1 through 6 (of 6 total) * Forum: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/) In reply to: [Site loads very slow, 'waiting for server'](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/site-loads-very-slow-waiting-for-server/) * Thread Starter [hellomcfly](https://wordpress.org/support/users/hellomcfly/) * (@hellomcfly) * [12 years, 12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/site-loads-very-slow-waiting-for-server/#post-3045576) * Hmm. Sounds quite similar to my approach. It would be nice if Yoast could chime in on this one. I wouldn’t be suprised if the SEO tricks interfere with speed optimization tricks. * Forum: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/) In reply to: [Site loads very slow, 'waiting for server'](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/site-loads-very-slow-waiting-for-server/) * Thread Starter [hellomcfly](https://wordpress.org/support/users/hellomcfly/) * (@hellomcfly) * [12 years, 12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/site-loads-very-slow-waiting-for-server/#post-3045574) * No, I never really figured it out. My site loads quite swiftly now, but I’m not sure what did the trick. * I tried a lot of things, including switching off minification in the W3 Total Cache plugin and getting rid of CloudFlare. It might have to do something with the intermingling of minification/caching and the workings of the SEO plugin. Do you use CloudFlare or any other optimization tool? * Forum: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/) In reply to: [Site loads very slow, 'waiting for server'](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/site-loads-very-slow-waiting-for-server/) * Thread Starter [hellomcfly](https://wordpress.org/support/users/hellomcfly/) * (@hellomcfly) * [13 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/site-loads-very-slow-waiting-for-server/#post-3045483) * Got it! Turning off the All In One SEO-plugin seems to do the trick. Page loading time is now just 1 second – just like it used to be. I think stuff went wrong when I updated the plugin, last week. * (Judging on the plugin forum page, though, this doesn’t look like a common issue. Could there be some form of interference with W3TC or Cloudflare?) * Thanks for your help, Damon! * Forum: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/) In reply to: [Site loads very slow, 'waiting for server'](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/site-loads-very-slow-waiting-for-server/) * Thread Starter [hellomcfly](https://wordpress.org/support/users/hellomcfly/) * (@hellomcfly) * [13 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/site-loads-very-slow-waiting-for-server/#post-3045470) * Yes, I do purge the cache every now and then. I’ve done that before, though. Didn’t make too much of a difference. * I just noticed that the loading time has risen again. It’s about 9 seconds now. I’ll ask my host about this. Though the jump in loading time is new, the ‘waiting for server’-part isn’t. * Forum: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/) In reply to: [Site loads very slow, 'waiting for server'](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/site-loads-very-slow-waiting-for-server/) * Thread Starter [hellomcfly](https://wordpress.org/support/users/hellomcfly/) * (@hellomcfly) * [13 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/site-loads-very-slow-waiting-for-server/#post-3045442) * I just remembered I started using a child theme last week. Just switched back to the parent theme and loading time seems to have improved quite a bit: from 8-20 seconds to about 2,5 seconds. Great stuff. Any idea what could have been wrong? * The ‘waiting for server’-part still takes the most time, though: about 1,7 seconds. Seems a waste of time. Any idea what could be causing that? * Forum: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/) In reply to: [Site loads very slow, 'waiting for server'](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/site-loads-very-slow-waiting-for-server/) * Thread Starter [hellomcfly](https://wordpress.org/support/users/hellomcfly/) * (@hellomcfly) * [13 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/site-loads-very-slow-waiting-for-server/#post-3045422) * Good questions. Cloudflare has minify enabled, W3TC has it disabled. W3TC does have ‘rewrite URL structure’ enabled, though. * In Cloudflare’s CDNJS-section, Modernizr, Flexie and JSON2 are on. * By the way, I just noticed this message, written in red on the top of the W3TC settings page: * > It appears Page Cache URL rewriting is not working. If using apache, verify > that the server configuration allows .htaccess or if using nginx verify all > configuration files are included in the configuration. * I did have some problems with the .htaccess file of my WordPress-folder last week (got a 500 Internal Server Error after messing with a referrer group in W3TC and solved it by renaming that .htaccess). Maybe W3TC is behaving strangely? Should I try removing and re-installing it? * Roibn Viewing 6 replies - 1 through 6 (of 6 total)