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Why is my WordPress site slow on shared hosting? Check these five things first

“The host is slow” is the usual diagnosis and it is usually wrong. On nine sites out of ten the server is fine and something on top of it is doing far more work than it needs to. Here is the order we check, which is also roughly the order of how often each one turns out to be the culprit. 1. CacheIs anything cached at all? Check the response headers in a private window. 2. DatabaseHow long do the queries take, and how many are there? 3. PHP versionThe version the site actually runs, not the