WordPress — Performance
TTFB, cache hit ratio, slow admin — performance problems that hide in plain sight.
WordPress Admin Slow: How to Find What’s Slowing Down wp-admin
The frontend loads in 400ms. The admin takes 4 seconds. Nobody measures this gap - but editors and content teams feel it every day.…
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WordPress cache hit ratio degraded — why your site got slower without a code change
Yesterday the site felt fine. Today every page takes an extra second, the admin dashboard stutters, and PHP-FPM workers are visibly busier in htop. You ran git …
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WordPress memory pressure on specific routes — finding the page or hook that eats memory
Last week your WordPress site was dying with Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 268435456 bytes exhausted. You doubled memorylimit to 512M in php.ini, reloaded…
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WordPress request latency — three causes, three drilldowns, one root cause
Your WordPress site is slow. Not down — slow. The homepage takes 4.…
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WordPress slow after plugin update — finding the hook that regressed
Tuesday at 3:14 PM the auto-updater ran. Wednesday morning support tickets start: "the editor is laggy", "Save Draft takes forever", "checkout spins for 4 secon…
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WordPress slow page load — diagnosing high TTFB when queries look fine
Chrome DevTools shows "Waiting for server response" at 5.8 seconds on a normal post page. You SSH in, run SHOW PROCESSLIST, and MySQL is idle — no long-running …
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