Why Is WordPress so Slow for over a Month?
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I can’t figure out why wordpress suddenly went slower than a sleepy slug. Is it some widget I added? When I go to update a blog I am writing, there are all sorts of things it waits for and takes far too long.
Some of the items are bcphotoadventures.wordpress.com (my own blog here), s.bit.ly, maps.google, etc.
Help, I’m ready to head back to Blogger if this is going to be the norm here at WordPress.
The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
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I visited your WP blog and all but one loaded extremely quick and I’m on a 1 meg ADSL broadband. The first thing I noticed was how incredibly long it took for the header image to appear while noticing the “Transferring data from http://www.bcphotoadventures.com” status in the browser. Try remove your header for a moment and see if loading improves. If it does then downsize it accordingly I’m sure it helps.
From my observation, posts load fast, header image very slow.
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It’s not the norm. Have you cleared your internet history? Your cookies? Most of the time when that happens to me I clear my history, cookies, you name it and it solves the problem. It’s not on wordpresses side since you said it’s happening else where also.
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Are you sure that you are not viewing a cached version? Have you tried these techniques? http://en.support.wordpress.com/browser-issues/
Which browser and version of it are you using?
Can you try another browser?
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Here are the results of an “ismyblogworking?” diagnostic check
http://ismyblogworking.com/bcphotoadventures.wordpress.comThe recommendation is to reduce the number of posts on your front page to decrease page loading time, and there are actually 3 approaches you can choose from to do that
(1) You can reduce the number on the front page this way:
> Settings > Writing
Blog pages show at most __ posts
change the number and the click “Save Changes”(2) You can choose to split the content in the posts using “the more tag” and only display an excerpt of posts on the front page.http://en.support.wordpress.com/splitting-content/more-tag/
(3) You can do both (1) and (2).
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@bcphotoadventures WordPress.com isn’t slow.
Your front page has many image links to bcphotoadventures.com/BlogPhotos… which are hosted elsewhere – and it’s these that are slow to load.
On my PC, the page took 3 seconds to load; the images took 45s.
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Thank you all for your comments. My issue is not with how long the pages load, but how long it takes to edit an article I am authoring, a blog post.
I’ll try to respond to all your suggestions and observations…
I regularly clear my Internet history (I’ve been at computer since the early 80s), and the cookies get cleared every time I close out my browser, which is often. It is ONLY WordPress that is slow in the authoring/editing, etc. of a new post, the downloading of stats information, the Preview option, and the Save Draft that hangs up my Firefox so that I can’t even go to another page, etc.
When I Save Draft, it takes forever (it didn’t back in November and early December). WordPress used to do this very quickly, even with my current header that I just reduced to 70% from 80%. That header has been there for several months, so I don’t think that is the issue.
The only thing I am doing differently is that perhaps I added a widget that is slowing things up, to wit the s.bit.ly, maps.google, etc.
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@bcphotoadventures can you describe the problem in more detail please? Be specific and say exactly what you click on and do, starting from when you begin a new draft, and exactly how long it takes.
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I understand what bcphotoadventures says, and I have the same problem. I am not concern with how long it takes to load my blog. My problem is that when I edit post or page, and then press Update, it takes more than minute. Yet in November 2009, it was just a few seconds
I understand that we need to be specific but it seems that the problem is inside wp-admin
Thanks in advance for any hints!
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Excuse me but you have already posted to this thread on the same subject https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/slow-loading-often-unresponsive-wordpresses/page/2?replies=32#post-421683
Please do not haul every thread on this topic out of the searchbox and post the same thing into them. One thread is sufficient.
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@sensit
I noticed that you did a good job of providing as much information as you could – the same information in two threads. I visited your blog before I posted and I knew you were new. I just wanted to tell you right away because I didn’t want you to repeat, and pull all the threads out of the forum box and flood the front page of the forum with them. Best wishes for a happy ending. :) -
As noted before, it’s not the time my blog takes to load, rather the time it takes in the authoring of a blog process.
Thank you for your input thus far.. The problem comes when I have authored part of my blog, then press Update. I am in the latest version of Firefox, and no, going to IE is NOT an option! Firefox wasn’t the issue last fall, so I suspect it is something within WP.
Sorry for the delay. I’ve been preparing for a couple of workshops, and I realized Ihave to check in to see if there are any responses. Mea culpa!
I am not doing anything different from what I did last fall, except for perhaps a different widget (don’t know which one it might be). I have been bringing my images over from my own website, just as I did before when WP was so much faster, so that can’t be the issue.
When I click on Edit, it takes nearly a minute for the Edit link to show up and be functional. It shoes up reasonably quickly, but certainly not at the speed one used to see on WP, but you cannot click on it and have anything happen for about a minute.
When I just clicked on Add New, Firefox hung up. I could not go to another tab, even though “Done” was noted in the lower left of the browser. Then it frees up.
One of the messages down in the lower left starts off with or contain such verbiage as:
Waiting for s2.wordpress.com (35 seconds)
waiting for maps… (what maps? and why?)I started a new blog, then clicked on Save Draft. Nothing happened the first time, and I do know how to click my mouse. Only WP gives me a problem (and I’ve been at computers since the early 80s, so I’m not an ingenue).
After about ten seconds, I click again, then after quite a few seconds saw connected maps.google.com. That lasted over 38 seconds, and from the first clicking on Safe Draft to full functionality again (remember Done does NOT mean Done), it took one minute and 18 seconds. That is not acceptable in my book.
Done is not really done for another 15 seconds or so, and anytime wordpress is doing its thing, It freezes up Firefox, and I cannot go to another tab. Again, this is the only website that has this effect … not banking, not PayPal, not other forums, etc. while I’m waiting.
As noted above in an earlier post, I clear out my cache regularly. Again, I’m not doing anything different from last fall.
Many thanks, I hope.
What about this maps.google.com? What does that have to do with my blog?
I appreciate any insights and help that anyone can bring.
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@ TimeThief
“(1) You can reduce the number on the front page this way:
> Settings > Writing
Blog pages show at most __ posts
change the number and the click “Save Changes” “I have no <b>Blog pages show at most ___ posts</b> choice.
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I’ve come up with some more sample times.
Went to edit posts. s2.wordpress.com and maps.gstatic.com took a long time to load, over a full minute.
Went to edit a specific post. It took 88 seconds before I could actually start editing.
On another pass, it took over 80 seconds, much of it waiting for maps.google.com.
Another time, it was 89 seconds, much of it taken up with polldaddy ratings to load.
Another time, secure.quantserve.com brought the total waiting time to 93 seconds.
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@bcphotoadventures
I’m sorry I goofed and sent you to Reading page instead of the Writing page. That being said I’m fairly sure that there isn’t anything the we Volunteers can do to help you becuase if we did have a solution it would have been posted byt now. -
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