Why is my blog running slow lately?

edesignhome · Member · Feb 24, 2015 at 9:31 pm
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Hi, I’ve tested my blog several times lately and in the past as well. Since I’ve changed theme from Edin to Zuki and now back again to Edin it’s running slow. In fact if I want it to be tested it doesn’t come out with a result on pingdom:
http://tools.pingdom.com/fpt/#!/cRwVhe/http://edesignhome.org/
What could be wrong?
Hope you guys can help me out, because I’m not a pro:(

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abouddandachi76 · Member · Feb 24, 2015 at 9:58 pm
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Hello, Ive tested your website using WebPageTest.org and the results seem quite reasonable, around four seconds to load from a connection in NY

http://www.webpagetest.org/result/150224_2R_17GM/

However there is always scope for improvement. Before we discuss the steps you can take, are you self hosting or hosting on WordPress.com? Just a reminder that WordPress.org have their own forums.
edesignhome · Member · Feb 24, 2015 at 10:07 pm
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Thank you, I’m hosting under WordPress.com. Before my changing from themes I had many performance tests under 3 seconds and I could see the test result on Pingdom, that’s why I’ve found it so strange that I can’t see the result anymore.
abouddandachi76 · Member · Feb 24, 2015 at 10:15 pm
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Well the results seem quite reasonable, sometimes Ive had my own site seem slow because of my location in Turkey, but you can run multiple tests on WebPageTest.org and select different locations to be sure.

Since you are hosting on WordPress.com, are Super Cache and Photon available to you? They come with Jetpack but Im not sure if they are available on WordPress.com.
edesignhome · Member · Feb 24, 2015 at 10:50 pm
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Great to hear, thank you:) I’ve tried it a couple of times one was 11 seconds that was very slow and another one 4 seconds. So there are some big differences location wise. Sorry but I am a beginner so not yet familiar with all this.
I cannot see any plugins on my dashboard and I found this article so maybe that’s why:

http://www.wpbeginner.com/beginners-guide/step-by-step-guide-to-install-a-wordpress-plugin-for-beginners/
abouddandachi76 · Member · Feb 24, 2015 at 10:57 pm
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Yes eleven seconds is excessive, and locations do make a difference. But even from Turkey your website seems to load quite fast. Your images are of a reasonable size and you arent using any plugins that may slow down your website. I’d suggest testing it over the next few days to make sure.
edesignhome · Member · Feb 24, 2015 at 11:11 pm
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I am happy to hear that:) I will check it in the next few days and great thanks you for your help:)
edesignhome · Member · Mar 5, 2015 at 11:39 am
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I’ve checked it the last days and now it’s perfect, within 3 sec. great thanks for your help!

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