what makes a website so d@mn slow?

I'm curious, I finally got my site set up for the most part and now i see it takes about 3 light years to load. there's really nothing on the site to cause it to be slow, it's set up on wordpress with 2 effing posts. Is it the server? the host is bluehost.

If it weren't that, what would cause it to be so damn slow?

I think i might put my Louisville slugger to good use.

 

can you show your site url ?

 

If it's the site in your sig, it took like 2 seconds for me to load.

 

Could be a number of things:

• improperly configured server
• nameserver problem
• mysql/database server problem (or just latency)
• .htaccess problem (or just processing if it's large/convoluted)

I'm sure there are other possibilities. You might check with your web host to see if they can diagnose the root issue.

 

Thanks people, yeah it's the site in my sig. I clicked on it again right after i posted, and tada! it took 2 seconds too.

But i guarantee it'll start up again as soon as this thread dies.

 

One other thing you can try is to run a traceroute from your computer to the domain (">tracert www.domain.com") and see if there is a problem in a router between you and the site.

 

tell me your site address

 

^ Here you go. http://www.starfall.com/