Platform-Specific Questions
What performance problems occur most frequently with WordPress?
Answer
The most common WordPress performance problems include: an excessive number of active plugins each loading their own CSS and JavaScript files, uncompressed and unscaled image files, missing or misconfigured caching plugins, outdated PHP versions on the server, bloated page builders generating hundreds of kilobytes of additional HTML and CSS, and unmaintained databases with orphaned metadata and revisions. In a typical WordPress project, we reduce the number of HTTP requests by 40 to 60 percent and the total page size by more than half.