The loading speed of a site is, of course, one of the key factors in how a visitor evaluates a resource. Also, the site loading speed affects the user’s desire to visit the resource in the future. What is the problem? The loading speed of a website is influenced by a huge number of factors, the main ones being: 1. A large number of requests during site loading, including requests for external resources (vk.com, Google services, Yandex, loading content from other sources). The number of requests should not exceed 60-80. 2. Large size of site content files (high-resolution images, not optimized for WEB, flash content). 3. “Heavy” CMS for virtual hosting: OpenCart, 1C-Bitrix, Drupal, etc. 4. Unoptimized code or a problem with the connected plugins/themes of your CMS. 5. Loaded channel of your Internet provider. 6. Problems with the hosting provider As technical support Hosting.Energy receives questions, we would like to note that the first four reasons for slow site loading are the most common. Optimized content and the optimal number of requests when loading a site will not only help you retain your visitors, it is also an important criterion for evaluating a site by search engines. Before contacting technical support of your hosting, you need to make sure that your site is loading slowly. Website load assessment services will act as independent experts in this dispute. Pingdom You can check the loading speed of the site by clicking on link. According to the testing results, Load Time - page loading time and Page Size - page size are important. Please note: if the size of your page exceeds 2-3 MB, this may be a significant reason for the site to load slowly. The key value is the number of HTTP requests while your site is loading. This value is displayed in the screenshot above - the Requests column. If the number of requests exceeds 80, we can talk about the reason for the slow loading of the site. A detailed display of each request is located slightly below the final results, in the Requests done to load this page table: Pay attention to requests to external servers: the number of these requests should be minimal: no more than 10. Host-tracker Check the loading speed of your site and give detailed results. During the diagnostic process, there is also a need to evaluate the speed of working with the database. To do this, we will use a small PHP script that displays the execution time of requests to the WordPress database. In the WP theme folder, which is usually located in the domain.com/wp-content/themes/theme_name directory, edit the footer.php file. At the end of the file, before closing the container, add the following text:

As a result, we have the following code: Load the page of your site, open the source code of the page. At the bottom of the page there will be a line: Queries - the number of database queries that are executed when the page is loaded. If the Queries value exceeds 20-30, try disabling WordPress plugins one by one. The Seconds value is the execution time of queries to the database. If the Seconds value is more than 1 second, then you also need to disable WordPress plugins and change the theme. A possible reason for the increase in query execution time could be heavy queries to the database or a large number of queries. Using the proposed methods to speed up site loading, you can achieve high performance results for your site. Don't forget also about the security of your CMS.