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So, I have a website my team and I designed, and we have all of the images in webp format and properly sized. I was able to get the mobile speed to 90, but the client hired an SEO guy overseas and now the site is really slow. I don't know what he did, but here's a list of the active plugins. Imgur: The magic of the Internet
Does anything stand out? I also noticed that I'm not seeing when plugins need to be updated anymore, not sure if he's using some weird code to hide that.
The website is hosted on Cloudways as a 4GB server with only 1 other WordPress site on there. I don't believe it's hosting causing the slow down.
Lots of plug-ins that can go wrong. I’d do a rollback to before. I do WP optimization for a living and I always us a backup plugin. I saw that you didn’t have a migration or duplicator plugin so it’s a good idea for future. Try to get it rolled back through your web host. Most have a week’s images and they can help you. Else God forbid you’ll have to check by turning off each and every plugin for a start and see where the problem is.
Increase php limit to 512 for admin panel if it’s slow. If he recently cleared cache or purged cdn it will take a while to get fast again as the cache refreshes.
He disabled auto updates to the plugins (27 of them) so they no longer appear on the right side.
DM me the URL. I also do speed optimization if interested.
My site is cloudways 2/1 vultr high frequency. It load really fast, but it’s also pretty basic. Plugins don’t cause slow load times necessarily…poorly written and implemented plugins do.
Showing us a list of plugins is not going to help. If you want specific advice, share a link to the site here.
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Okay first of all, I’d clean up the plugins, someone has a bad case of the “Throw a plugin at this problem”.
* Akismet / Bot protection are mostly doing the same thing. Take Akismet over bot protection
* noindex SEO – Not required, [Yoast can do all of this](https://yoast.com/help/how-do-i-noindex-urls/)
* String locator – You should be doing this in your IDE, not live on the site.
* Transients manager – Transients often come with their own expiry time, you very rarely should be interfering with this. The only time they don’t have an expiry time is when the dev wants them to persist for a reason.
* xml sitemap generator – This is not needed, [yoast does this for you already](https://yoast.com/help/xml-sitemaps-in-the-wordpress-seo-plugin/) (put /sitemap_index.xml on the end of your url and you’ll see the yoast one)
Now in terms of slow downs in the admin, its likely that he’s taken a shot at writing custom code. I’d ask what files he modified and take a look there. Its very easy for amateurs to get their code wrong and create slow [loops](https://codex.wordpress.org/The_Loop). (This is a part of the way WordPress works).
My advise is never look at a problem and immediately search for a plugin to resolve the issue. You can often fix the problem by looking at the root cause of it. Also when it comes to hiring people to improve the speed of your site, everyone will jump at the chance because its easy money. Just as SEO is easy money. But your best bet is to hire an actual developer that knows their way around WordPress code, not someone whos a glorified plugin installer.
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The WooCommerce shipping and tax plugin has a lookup on every admin page. This will add up to .7s to the admin page generation time, which can make the admin area feel more sluggish.
Don’t think they ever fixed this but might be able to supply a patch.
You can check external requests by installing the query monitor plugin then checking for http requests in the query monitor menu in the admin toolbar.
Would this match what you were experiencing?