Hi everyone,
I’m reaching out for help with an issue that’s been stressing me out. I’ve been managing our website for the past three years. We use GoDaddy as our host provider and Elementor as our theme builder. However, in recent months, our website has been extremely slow, taking minutes to load.
I’ve tried everything I can think of to improve the load time: optimizing the images, clearing the cache, removing unnecessary plugins, and optimizing the CDN. Despite these efforts, the problem persists. We only have four plugins active, yet the website remains sluggish.
This situation is causing me a lot of stress and anxiety, as my job is on the line. If anyone has any advice or solutions, I would greatly appreciate it.
Our website is https://www.growprofitscale.com.
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>We use GoDaddy as our host provider
Found your problem for you 🙂
Yeah avoid GoDaddy like the plague. Overpriced and terrible in every way.
I’d move to a new host asap,
I’m not seeing minutes to load. Several seconds, yes, but not minutes. Have you tried the chrome devtools Lighthouse performance auditing feature?
Before jumping over to another hosting provider, can you list the plugins you have?
RE a caching solution, have you tried litespeed cache? Take the time to configure litespeed with memcached. (if you’re not sure about this, ask).
[https://pagespeed.web.dev/analysis/https-www-growprofitscale-com/w1l3pti660?form_factor=mobile](https://pagespeed.web.dev/analysis/https-www-growprofitscale-com/w1l3pti660?form_factor=mobile)
Focus on improving these stats. Ignore everything except the mobile platform.
It’s saying that you need to engage lazy loading of images for a start. That should see a big improvement.
The Youtube plugin is taking time to load, you should engage lazy loading on that too.
Ensure those images are small and in the correct format, I use [https://squeeze.pics](https://squeeze.pics) for bulk image compression & conversion.
Improve that SEO score on pagespeed too. It should improve when you add a meta description.
Godaddy…enough said.
I ran your site through webpagetest: [https://www.webpagetest.org/result/240610_BiDcB0_EQT/](https://www.webpagetest.org/result/240610_BiDcB0_EQT/)
You can clearly see that from the waterfall chart that Elementor is the culprit here; There are 13 CSS files that are blocking page render:
[https://www.webpagetest.org/result/240610_BiDcB0_EQT/1/details/#waterfall_view_step1](https://www.webpagetest.org/result/240610_BiDcB0_EQT/1/details/#waterfall_view_step1)
The page is also spending 6 seconds looking for the missing favicon.ico file – add that back immediately.
Also +4 on the GoDaddy hosting being junk. A good host can mask alot of page performance problems or eliminate them. GoDaddy is not one of them.
As others have all said GoDaddy + a page builder is potentially your biggest bottle neck. But also read the performance section on the [pinned post](https://www.reddit.com/r/Wordpress/comments/1cqlvod/start_here_essential_resources_faqs/).
[Read this](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ncQcxnD-CxDk4h01QYyrlOh1lEYDS-DV/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=114514252262811175804&rtpof=true&sd=true)
The table of contents is the hamburger menu icon on the top left on desktop. Let me know if anything needs further explanation.