Website is super slow but I can't figure out why
When a website or wp-admin dashboard feels sluggish, there is rarely an obvious reason why. Even if you install a diagnostic tool like Query Monitor, the technical information it provides is often confusing and leaves you with no idea what to actually do to fix the performance.
What people tried
Every workaround mentioned in the threads below. We haven’t tested any of them — and nobody here is claiming they worked.
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- 1clearing cachesDid this help you?
- 2disabling random pluginsDid this help you?
- 3optimizing the databaseDid this help you?
In their words
Unedited, grouped by where they were said, most upvoted first within each place, each linked to the thread it came from.
“The site is super slow but I can't figure out why.”source ↗
“I do have query monitor installed and its giving some of the above info but I have no idea what to do with it.”source ↗
“One of the most frustrating WordPress problems I deal with is this: **The site — or wp-admin — feels slow, but there’s no obvious reason why.**”source ↗
Where this came up
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