Posted it on WooCommerce Slow · Issue #53322 · woocommerce/woocommerce · GitHub hope someone pays any attention.
Can you try a WordPress hosting, setup a WordPress site add WooCommerce plugin and observe the speed there. If that seems to be ok to you then there is something wrong with your server’s configuration? I came to this conclusion as no solution has worked for you so far. Typically using a cache plugin solves the issue in the most cases.
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Interesting observation. not sure which WordPress hosting to try without spending a lot of money or getting locked in into a contract? Any suggestion?
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I’ve seen that Hostinger has been good with WordPress hosting. Try that.
You can also try Digital Ocean.
woocommerce is notoriously slow. Just search for “woo commerce slow” you will find thousands of posts with similar issues. This is something you have to live with. Caching may improve it a bit but it is slow by nature. Wordpress is not an eCommerce script, it is just a blogging platform.
It just shows 1.44s as page loading, that it not slow?
It shows .144s but the time it takes to show every element on any dashboard page is way too much. It is certainly not under 2 seconds. It is like 4-5 seconds by the time the refresh stops and page displays fully.
I just setup woocommerce on Hostinger and it loads much faster than my dedicated server. It is almost like no delay than just plain WordPress installation. I didn’t configure the full woocommerce store such as adding payments etc.
So what is next?
As I suspected, something is not quote right withy your dedicated server settings which is causing it to slow down WooCommerce. Shared hostings like Hostinger use caching and are fine tuned that’s why WC is loading faster on Hostinger.
Next to try is to copy the Site info from both sites, save them in .txt files and then use a compare tool to compare both files line by lines and check for the settings. Make changes to your server to match Hostinger settings.
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I did that. I don’t see any specific parameters which I haven’t tried.
I observed that Hostinger is using LiteSpeed and Maria DB. My dedicated server has Apache and MySQL. Does that make a difference like it is a game changer?
I also tried setting up a WooCommerce store on IONOS shared hosting and there too it is way much faster loading. here they are using Apache and MariaDB.
I haven’t tried LiteSpeed or MariaDB so can’t say anything about that. I’ve read that their performances are better than Apache and MySQL.
A dedicated server is way much better than shared hosting suckers. I still think that there is something wrong with your server which is causing WooCommerce to load slow. I can’t think of anything more right now. Will come back if I have something more to contribute to this interesting topic. I can see that this is going to be an epic topic.
Can you optimise and repair database tables? Also check if any table has unusual large size or number of rows?
Just did that, no improvements.
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Ok, I’m going to suggest something which may sound crazy but it is a logical step to prove that your dedicated host + woocommerce are causing issues.
Can you move your site to shared hosting on either Hostinger or IONOS as you already have account with them?
If moving site to either of these two host improves performance then your server has some issues (with woocommerce).
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Good idea, I was also thinking the same. My only worry is the downtime.
Change TTL of various records to be 30 seconds (value will be 180). Wait for 72 hours to let it propagate. You can then transfer your site.
It may not be relevant with slowing down woocommerce but can you check logs, specially for any fatal errors on WooCommerce → Status → Logs?
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Thanks for that. I’ve checked the logs and there are nothing significant there. No fatal errors.
Hello Caleb, Did you find any solution to fix slow WooCommerce?