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By: Melissa C.

Melissa C. — Mon, 16 Aug 2010 09:16:28 +0000

Hello,

Thanks so much for this post…very informative. I’ve done a tracert to my website and noticed that I timed out at the #2, #4 and #5 spots. I was noticing that my blog took forever to load, especially at night. Well, that’s not really true. I would just get the loading… and waiting to connect… messages that would take forever. Then, once everything connected, my blog loaded fast. Do you know what I can do to correct this problem? It affects my load time in both my site and WordPress dashboard.

By: John Adams

John Adams — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 17:43:48 +0000

No, you don’t add turbo by adding Google Gears because you can’t demand this of your visitors, and you need to be using the browser that the least well-equipped of your visitors will be using. Very poor advice.
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If your WordPress website is running slowly, get the Firebug add-on for Firefox and troubleshoot it. My friend did this and discovered that the “Automatic Upgrade” plugin was adding 18 seconds the execution time of most functions such as logging-in./

By: Jason

Jason — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 19:48:27 +0000

Ok, well. I am writing this comment as I’m waiting for my wordpress admin screen to load.

I disabled plugin’ and everything but it is still not going any faster. I want to blame GoDaddy but I bet that will be difficult to do.

Thanks for the ideas. I am testing the Database manager plugin now.

By: This Eclectic Life

This Eclectic Life — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 13:19:51 +0000

You saved me! I couldn’t figure out why my blog seemed so slow (when the same theme on my test site loaded like lightning). Last night, I turned off every plug in and turned them back on (one at a time). Yes, there it was. My comment form was the culprit. It wasn’t configured correctly, and I don’t know how to repair it so it “went away.”

Thank you for this info. It was very useful, and I don’t know what I would have done without you.

By: Velvet Blues

Velvet Blues — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 04:12:55 +0000

@mahen: Well, it would depend on the plugin. But yes, incompatible plugins are often a big reason why blogs are slow.

By: mahen

mahen — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 18:03:13 +0000

The plugins show that it is not tested for this version of wordpress, can it be a possible reason of slow admin pages???

By: James Itokazu

James Itokazu — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 07:38:24 +0000

I had an issue recently. I did remove my plugins folder temporarily and the issue went away, but I wanted to see what the real issue was. In my case, I found that some code in the site and plugins were trying to resolve the site by dns and then trying to access the site. It was basically trying to access itself by its external ip address and timing out. The server is on a private IP range and is Natted to the internet. The location’s router did not allow this communication to occur. After adding the web sites domain names to the servers host file, the site became very fast once again, since the private IP was being used instead.

By: Velvet Blues

Velvet Blues — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 01:48:06 +0000

@Ajay: Thanks for visiting. We have an article about troubleshooting a slow WordPress website. You can check it out here: http://www.velvetblues.com/web-development-blog/how-to-make-your-wordpress-website-load-faster/

By: Ajay Kumar Singh

Ajay Kumar Singh — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 22:46:31 +0000

Thanks for sharing info.
For me it was Turbo which worked for the admin.
however the website still loads too slow and I can’t figure out what is wrong with it.

Any tips on front slow loading issues?

By: Velvet Blues

Velvet Blues — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 13:53:53 +0000

@Ben: Yes, its sort of hidden in the upper right of your dashboard. And most people don’t use it, so it is rarely talked about.

By: Ben Pei

Ben Pei — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 06:28:39 +0000

Thats cool.. I didn’t know there was a turbo function. Something new I learnt today haha..

By: Velvet Blues

Velvet Blues — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 20:51:11 +0000

@Kim, Turbo is typically only worth it on slow connections. For example, it’d make a huge difference on dialup and wireless, as well as some cable or dsl connections.

And yes, in most cases slowness is due to plugins. So I’d always start with that. In this case, for example, my client had installed additional plugins on their own which were incompatible. So, it causes some problems. (I foolishly assumed that they hadn’t done anything, so I went through an entire checklist of possible causes before I checked out the plugins. lol.)

By: Kim Woodbridge

Kim Woodbridge — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 20:31:11 +0000

So, do you think turbo is worth it? I haven’t tried it because I rarely have connection problems and I don’t travel but I am curious about it.

I frequently recommend that users disable plugins when they are having this type of issue and they are so hesitant to do so – do you run into this?

By: Velvet Blues

Velvet Blues — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 14:21:10 +0000

@Kurt, yes, I have that problem too. Unfortunately, there’s never enough time to make every idea happen. So I have a running list over here that gets longer by the day, and it has very few items completed.

By: Kurt Avish

Kurt Avish — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 13:52:12 +0000

Lol. I think we share the same addiction then. The disease to find a solution.

I have the tendency to do like this for everything. Normally when I start working on something, I got to finish it as soon as I can and with perfection else I cant sleep. And if I do sleep then…its nightmare about it lol.

Another big problem is that I get ideas too often to do new things. Gonna look for a cure to stop the ideas overflow lol. For example you just said above about a website or blog page which keeps a running list of plugins which slow down the admin area. :p

No no. I’ll keep that aside this time. I still have to complete my university final year project on AI chatterbot.

By: Velvet Blues

Velvet Blues — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 14:31:27 +0000

@Nihar, great tip. You know, there should be a website or blog page which keeps a running list of plugins which slow down the admin area.

By: Nihar

Nihar — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 12:03:10 +0000

Nice post. I think it would help for those who are looking for troubleshooting the slow loading of wordpress admin panel.

I would like to add my experience. I had this problem before and i followed the same process and found out that Bad Bahaviour plugin was the culprit and i disabled that plugin and got my admin panel to work properly as before.

By: Velvet Blues

Velvet Blues — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 07:32:50 +0000

@Kurt, yes, I was initially hesitant to ‘mess’ with Turbo too. But when I upgraded to 2.7, I decided to also take advantage of all of WP’s features.

And yes, troubleshooting can be exasperating. I’m the kind of person that will think about a problem non-stop until it has been resolved, even while I am doing other things.

By: Kurt Avish

Kurt Avish — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 04:38:16 +0000

Even I was hesitating a bit about that Turbo stuff. Gonna activate it today then. Btw Troubleshooting is fun only when you find a solution…but at time we can go crazy trying to find a solution that is not coming by

By: Yan@Review

Yan@Review — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 04:23:12 +0000

Yeah, you bet I am but I’m coping well now that TSB is in good hand. Thanks for your continued support, Shirley.

Yan

By: Velvet Blues

Velvet Blues — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 04:11:52 +0000

@Yan, yeh I find that very few people use the ‘Turbo’ option. But it is useful, especially if you are on a slower internet connection.

Btw, it appears that you’ve been all over the blogosphere lately. Busy busy busy. I just checked out the SponsorReview.com site.

By: Yan@Review

Yan@Review — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 03:35:22 +0000

I’ve been wanting to push that “TURBO” button but I wasn’t too sure what it was. OK, I’m off to do it now. Thanks for the reminder, Shirley.

Yan

By: Velvet Blues

Velvet Blues — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 14:17:15 +0000

@stratos, I don’t know if I’d say that I love troubleshooting. But it is satisfying when you’ve isolated the problem.

By: stratosg

stratosg — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 14:10:53 +0000

i love troubleshooting… you never know what you will come up with