very slow performance

[shmoo]

dear Lay Team & community,
I started building my 2 sites with Laytheme in the middle of last year and am very enthusiastic about the scope of possibilities and the constant great updates. Unfortunately I have to struggle with massive performance problems with both domains and am now at the end of my knowledge and do not want to move to another theme/solution.
The domains I am talking about (i have set it to public so that you have access to it):

https://www.josua-rappl.de --> almost finished and manageable in terms of overall size
/ deactivated woocomerce (to test whether this could also be the cause)

https://www.roucs.com --> very naked, only placeholders very little content but still awfully slow
/ activated woocomerce

both domains run via the hoster dreamhost recommended by you and the booked package is called "share-unlimited"

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what I have tried so far:
/ step-by-step activation of plugins
/ superchache --> settings from the LAY-tutorial + all images are optimised (webp)
/ all unnecessary plugins & themes deleted / deactivated
/ different computers & browsers
/ analysed by Lighthouse in the hope of finding out why there is a very long initial server response time
/ checking the size of my wp-data in case there ist so kind of bloating/bouncing

I also have the feeling that it gets worse with the activation of woocomerce. The same applies to the backend of WP - sometimes I have a response time of 20-30 seconds.

What can I do to improve the performance of my pages?
I am very grateful for any help & tips

hugs
Yoshi

[schlegel]

The same for me!
I restored the website from an older backup (with an older Laytheme version), then it worked again.
I'm with Strato, it doesn't seem to be the hoster's fault.

I have another website on the latest Laytheme version that runs smoothly, but there is also significantly less content on it - I am also grateful for tips, until then I will stick with the older Laytheme version.

[dafv]

Hey @arminunruh,
Not sure if it's related but this happens on my 2 Laytheme websites as well.

In the last few months, the performance on the Backend (wordpress admin panel) has become slower and slower, and it's also noticeable on the Frontend. The backend takes very long to change pages, update projects, delete media, etc etc.

I tried to activate Woocommerce in one of the websites and it became a lot worse (so I deactivated).

Do you know what's causing this?
And if so, is there any way to improve it?

[arminunruh]

hey there, i believe its probably dreamhost's shared server performance.
you could ask them if you can upgrade your plan to a more powerful server.

when i had issues with dreamhost's server performance, i started using their VPN server.

especially woocommerce takes more computing power and makes websites slower

I wrote this tutorial, maybe have a look at it:
https://laytheme.com/tutorials/make-your-website-load-instantly-and-manage-your-own-server.html

Hosting can be very cheap but then your website just might not load fast enough, even if you do all these steps: https://laytheme.com/documentation/speeding-up-your-website.html

[arminunruh]

for example i use dreamhost too but i use their VPN, so thats much more performant. mh :|