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How To Fix Slow Loading WordPress Blogs
February 1st, 2010
What a drag it is when your blog loads up so-o-o-o slowly. That was happening here at PageOneWithGary.com and I’m sure it was annoying to our visitors. Certainly was to me. So here’s how I fixed the problem – and how you can too.
THE CAUSE & THE REMEDY
It turns out that one of the plugins was slowing things down to a crawl so here’s how to firstly identify the culprit.
1. Deactivate all your plugins and see how much faster the site loads. Hopefully it’s nice and quick. If not, maybe the theme is a problem and you should look for another one.
2. Re-activate your plugins a few a time. I reactivated 3, then I checked the page loading speed by clicking on the link to a post I hadnt opened in a while. The reason for doing that is so it didnt load from the cache on my computer.
If I had wanted to be totally thorough, I could have emptied my cache first but I didnt bother and this method worked just fine for me.
3. Keep re-activating a few plugins at a time and checking page load speed each time. If it’s a problem with one of your plugins, when you turn on the offending plugin, your site will once again load slowly. Delete that slow-working plugin.
You can learn more here...
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Posted in On Page Optimization, Written by Gary Harvey | 
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