Wordpress site running slow?
Well, we ran into the same issue, our site was running slow. Because of this, people were not even waiting to visit the site, so we did some investigating.
Here’s some background.
- We’re on a shared server, we’re growing though
- We have a lot of Word Press plugins installed
- It was taking the page approximately 3-5 seconds to load, way too much time
After some reviews from other sites, we started off by investigating what we had installed. We found that we had some redundant plugins and honestly plugins we were not using. We removed all of those miscellaneous plugins.
Next, we investigated 2 different plugins to help speed up the site, namely WP Super Cache and WP Cache.
We first installed WP Super Cache, after many tries, we were not able to get it to work. It might have been the fact we had to edit our .htaccess files manually and may not have done it correctly. So, after an hour we gave up.
Next installation was WP Cache. We installed this, turned it on, and we were up and running. So, if you’re looking to speed up your site, we definitely recommend WP Cache for it’s ease of use and simplicity. Thanks!
