Wordpress SLOW!!

[rob998]

Last week wordpress site running fine. Today it is dog slow. Nothing changed and no plugins need updating. Server is up to date and has been restarted. The site loads so its not an access/firewall issue.

 

Any suggestions on where to start?

[ass17]

Does using a Wordpress cache plugin speed things up? If not what web server server are you running iis/xampp?

[rob998]

Still slow when usung W3 Total Cache. Running on IIS.

[ass17]

If you disable all plugins does it run faster? What are the load timings if you run it in developer console in chrome? Does it point to anything obvious?

[rob998]

All plugins disabled and still the same. It takes roughly 40s for TTFB

[NokiX]

Are you pulling any external content at all on your wordpress theme?

[MkII]

Anything else happening on the server?

[Steve21]

There's a fix we implemented on ours in regards to MySQL temp files

 

By default the place it puts the temp files is really slow processing, as you said 30-40 seconds a page, but if you set it to a new folder it works fine.

 

Will try to find the page/fix to try if you want

 

Steve

[Steve21]

There you go try this if it's not that it's easy to put it back won't do any harm

 

Open your MySQL My.cnf file and set this line:

 

tmpdir=C:\\MySQL\\temp

 

Just below

 

[mysqld]

 

Make that folder in your local drive, and restart services and it should start writing log files to there instead

 

Fixed the problem with slowness for us

 

Steve

[rob998]

Thanks guys. I updated SQL and wordpress today and it seemed to pull itself around.

 

I'll definitely implement your suggestion also.