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Site loads fine for first half of page and then very slowwww after that...

http://www.indysouthportdental.com.php5-1.ord1-1.websitetestlink.com/

Hosting at Rackspace Cloud.

The way the pages load is weird to begin with, but very slow overall.

Any ideas?

Thanks!

Brett

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How many plugins do you have running? – fdsa Jun 20 '12 at 5:31
I only have about 5 plug-ins loaded. Contact Form 7, Google XML Sitemaps, Login LockDown, Reed Write and WP DB Backup. – Brett Jun 20 '12 at 11:46
How is this question off-topic? – Brett Jun 20 '12 at 11:46
Performance is not a WordPress specific problem. Explain which WordPress part makes the site slow, and I will reopen it. – toscho♦ Jun 20 '12 at 12:49
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As you can see from the Pingdom test result provided by @fdsa and also from here, your site seems to be loading fine. There are a few suggestions, though.

  • Setup a caching layer (using WP Super Cache, W3 Total Cache, Batcache, Varnish, or anything that fits your server)
  • Remove outdated and/or unsupported plugins. For example, your site seems to be using Reed Write plugin, that is compatible only up to 3.2.1 (as of today's statistics).
  • Load Contact Form 7 plugin's CSS and JS files only when needed. They are unnecessarily loaded on the front page.
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Although some of the other pages on the site also load really slow creating some weird background effects. – fdsa Jun 20 '12 at 5:31
Thanks for the answers. I'll implement a Cache plugin. I'll look into only loading Contact Form 7 stuff on the appropriate page. I'm using ReedWrite for CPT configuration-not sure why that needs to load anything on the front-end though. Do you have a better suggestion for this functionality? – Brett Jun 20 '12 at 11:43
Unfortunately, no. – Pothi Kalimuthu Jun 20 '12 at 14:08

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