Speeding Up Wordpress
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- vaxorcist0
I think it's your host. I'd try to download and clone the site to your computer, install a local hosting environment like MAMP, WAMP or http://www.instantwp.com/
WP can be slow under load, but should be reasonably fast when you are the only concurrent user. If there's a huge load, I've found cloudflare to be a lifesaver, but that doesn't seem to be your problem, unless we all click on the link at once.
Google's tool is interesting... it really seemed to point to your server.
http://developers.google.com/spe…QUOTE:
Reduce server response time
In our test, your server responded in 10.2 seconds. There are many factors that can slow down your server response time. Please read our recommendations to learn how you can monitor and measure where your server is spending the most time.
/QUOTEalso, their notes about blocking javascript can be interesting... you can move the javascript calls to the bottom of the page in many cases. One small trick is to combine multiple javascript files into one if they are custom to your site, and also I try to use direct links to google's jquery library so as to take advantage of browser probably already having it from some other website...
There are other tricks, but tweeking them is like polishing the wheels of a car that has an engine that's barely running...
- it's on godaddy, according to http://toolbar.netcr…vaxorcist