When I first started this blog, I decided to use Godaddy’s WordPress shared hosting. At the time, I had another site that was already being hosted at Godaddy and thought their hosting services were pretty solid. My other site was a 100% HTML site. Since it was an all-HTML site, I didn’t have a database associated with my website. I just noticed the site loading pretty fast and didn’t think any more of it.
Now, that brings me to DomsTechBlog. I had only posted 2 posts to the site and I was already noticing that the site was super slow. Sometimes, I would get load times of over 20 seconds when using http://www.webpagetest.org/. Considering I wasn’t getting any traffic, I thought this was very odd. Since my past experience with Godaddy was so good, I thought that there was something wrong with my site. I tried removing images, changing themes, caching, disabling plugins, downloading and installing WordPress site speed plugins, etc and none of this sped up the site.