WordPress website started to load one minute, how to fix it?
Glad you were able to resolve your issue. One way I check the performance of my websites is to use 2 free online performance tools.
Both tools will give you a break down of how your website performs. They also provide a detailed analysis of what may be impacting your website load time.
Since you are using WordPress I recommend a few plugins to improve overall performance.
These are some really easy to use plugins that can dramatically improve your websites performance.
If you know how to work with the .htaccess file or if you are using a plugin like Yoast SEO that enables you to add code to your .htaccess file then you can place this next code snippet in there that will also help improve your websites performance.
- ## EXPIRES CACHING ##
- <IfModule mod_expires.c>
- ExpiresActive On
- ExpiresByType image/jpg “access 1 year”
- ExpiresByType image/jpeg “access 1 year”
- ExpiresByType image/gif “access 1 year”
- ExpiresByType image/png “access 1 year”
- ExpiresByType text/css “access 1 month”
- ExpiresByType text/html “access 1 month”
- ExpiresByType application/pdf “access 1 month”
- ExpiresByType text/x-javascript “access 1 month”
- ExpiresByType application/x-shockwave-flash “access 1 month”
- ExpiresByType image/x-icon “access 1 year”
- ExpiresDefault “access 7 days”
- </IfModule>
- ## EXPIRES CACHING ##
The code snippet above helps you to leverage browser cache.
These are just a few tips that I recommend.
Hope this helps, Good Luck.
