Make WordPress Fast: the home page is fine and one landing page

When the request is make wordpress fast, we look at the live site first. The check we expect to matter is: the home page is fine and one landing page takes ten seconds.

The failure we expect

• The home page is fine and one landing page takes ten seconds
• The host is on an old PHP version
• A slider or page builder loads a pile of scripts on every URL
• The site is fast in the office and slow from a phone

The pieces we open

A slow WordPress site is usually a few heavy pages, a plugin on every request, or images that were never resized. We time the slow URL before we add another cache plugin.

• The plugin list, including what loads in the header
• The URL that is actually slow, measured more than once
• The query or remote call that dominates the slow request
• Whether a cache plugin is already installed and mis-set

After you call

The first fix is the largest of those, not a stack of cache plugins. Caching comes after the page is doing less work, and only if it will not mix up carts or logins.

We measure the slow URL before we install anything. The time is usually in one plugin, one query, one set of images, or a PHP version the host left behind.

Computer Geek works from Toronto with clients in other cities. Distance does not change the check. Access to the host and a page that shows the problem does.

Call 905-426-1784. We look at the site and tell you what the work is before it starts. The service page for this is WordPress speed help.