My site is loading slowly - what can I do?
Using Jamroom
torbenj:I haven´t done anything to my site yet, but it also seem to load a bit faster here now. The biggest issue is when I clear my cache - and then enter my site. Then it´s to slow. And that´s the way most visitors will see it, if they haven´t been to my site before... Right?
Not really
When you "Clear Caches", think of that as a
full reset of everything - i.e. everything is going to be rebuilt from the ground up. Your next page load after the cache reset will be much, much slower than normal as it has to rebuild the base level cached items that are shared system wide.
When a new user visits your site it should be pretty fast, as none of the "shared" cached items will need to be rebuilt.
So don't test your site speed by resetting caches, as that is the most extreme "rebuild" that will ever happen.
It's important to know too that being on
shared hosting you are going to have times when your site is a bit slow, and times when it is fast, since all the resources are shared among many, many sites. If you want to be sure your site is always fast, then you're going to want to upgrade to a VPS or dedicated server - that's the only way to guarantee your server resources.
Hope this helps!
