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trusto
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Thought I’d pop back and share how I resolved this issue as it may help someone else.
I came across this plugin P3 (Plugin Performance Profile). The P3 plugin will scan your installation and measure each plugin’s impact on your site’s overall performance time. It creates easy-to-read charts and profiles to help you narrow down the issue.
This showed me the biggest cause of the slowdown was a twitter plugin.
Then by going through the results I removed some other offenders and made the 40% faster in less than 20 minutes
Worth a try
Thread Starter
trusto
(@trusto)
Vayola – thank you for the suggestion and I ran the test and am pleased to say it is not a Malware issue.
Christine – I have gone through the plugins deactivating with no notable difference in speed.
A possibility may be my theme which I will test by selecting the Twenty Ten theme to see if the site is quicker.
One thing I was wondering is maybe its purely a server issue and that I should consider upgrading my hosting to VPS?
The site has over a 1000 posts and is on shared hosting. I have always assumed that would be fine for now.
