homepage loading too slow

Question

I transferred a website to VPS and when I open that website, the home page takes too long to load, for me its taking 30-35 secs just to display the home page, but when I navigate the internal pages it loads in normal speed, I also tried this when all of my plugins were deactivated, but no change, it was taking time to load.

Answer 1

There was a thread on wp-hackers in December which could be related: Avoid query_post on frontpage on wp initialization. You may give Sergey Biryukov’s code a try:

I was able to cancel the initial query with this code in the active theme's functions.php file:

function cancel_first_query() {
    remove_filter('posts_request', 'cancel_first_query');
    return '';
}
add_filter('posts_request', 'cancel_first_query');

Answer 2

If your normal pages are loading quickly, the calls to the database are probably your culprit.

I would have a look at some caching options for your content. They'll render the page once as an HTML document for your logged-out visitors. Read the descriptions and see if they'll be a good fit:

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-super-cache/ http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-cache/

Answer 3

Your site loads normally for me. It could be something with your own ISP too. Also, try changing your theme and see if the issue is still there.

Answer 4

Make sure you install FIrebug and myabe that YSlow script to see whats holding it up. GO to NEt tab and click ALL, it gives you load time of each dependency.

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