Why is my WordPress site running slowly?
Every time a visitor goes to your WordPress® blog, the server processes PHP scripts and establishes a database connection—in laymen's terms, it's doing a lot of work. The busier your site is, the slower this process becomes.
Slow page loads are problematic as they discourage visitors from visiting your site. The usual culprits are improperly configured or misbehaving plugins or using images that are hosted on other, slower servers.
To speed up your site, try these third-party solutions:
- Consider installing third-party plug-ins like W3 Total Cache, WP-Super-Cache, and WP-DBManager.
- Replace links to external images with images uploaded to your WordPress site.
- Disable all plugins.
- Re-enable plugins one-by-one to see which causes the slowness.
For help using plugins, see Getting Started with WordPress. For more information about plugins, see Using the WordPress Performance Profiler Plugin.
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