Said It Here

Why did page load times suddenly spike to 20+ seconds?

Page load times can suddenly jump from a normal 6-7 second average to 23-25 seconds, severely tanking mobile Lighthouse and PageSpeed scores. This abrupt slowdown ruins overall site performance and leaves pages taking far too long to render.

What people tried

Every workaround mentioned in the threads below. We haven’t tested any of them — and nobody here is claiming they worked.

  1. 1
    enabling caching and CDN plugins
  2. 2
    optimizing images and web fonts
  3. 3
    removing unnecessary visual effects and heavy scripts
  4. 4
    Upgrading versions like 26.2
  5. 5
    Using APM, screen recordings, and .har files to gather data on different records
  6. 6
    Raising a support case

In their words

Unedited, grouped by where they were said, most upvoted first within each place, each linked to the thread it came from.

r/Netsuite1 person · September 2026

“did anyone else see a large change in page load time around 9/24?”source ↗

“If I pull a two-week average for the period leading up to through the 23rd, the View load times on various records is in the ~6-7 second range; for 24th-present, it's more like 23-25.”source ↗

dyjafi · r/Netsuite · 5 upvotes
r/Wordpress1 person · September 2026

“I'm working on a WordPress website for a car dealership and I'm struggling with performance, especially on mobile Lighthouse/PageSpeed.”source ↗

Loud-Researcher-9890 · r/Wordpress

Where this came up

r/Netsuiter/Wordpressperformancesoftwaretroubleshootingwebsite performance

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