Slow Site & Server Load articles
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The site is slow: what actually makes a difference
«The site is slow» means different things depending on who says it: the first page takes ages to appear, the admin...
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The site is slow: what to measure before you change plan
«The site is slow, I think I need a bigger plan.» It is one of the messages we get most, and most of the time the...
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What eats CPU on a website, and how to bring it down
The processor is the one resource in your account that does not fail when it runs out: it slows down. No error...
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admin-ajax eating your resources: how to find out and cut it down
admin-ajax.php is the door through which plugins talk to the server in the background, without reloading the page....
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Fast for you, slow for everyone else: why
You open your site and it appears in a blink. A customer says it drags. You are both right, because you are not...
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High TTFB: how to find where the server response time goes
TTFB (time to first byte) is the time from the request to the arrival of the first byte of the reply. If it is high,...





