WordPress performance

Slow Loading Issues

Pain pointTrend: NewConfidence: LowFirst seen 8/5/2026 · last seen 8/5/2026

Opportunity score

43

Mentions

3

Communities

2

Growth since last check

new

What's happening

Multiple users report slow loading times for their WordPress sites, particularly related to hero images and checkout processes. They are currently trying to optimize their sites by self-hosting images and adjusting caching settings, but still face significant delays.

Why this score: The issues are common and specific, indicating a clear pain point for users trying to improve site performance.

Who's affected

WordPress site ownersE-commerce businesses using WooCommerceWeb developers managing client sites

What people try to do

  • Self-hosting images to reduce load times
  • Adjusting caching settings to improve performance

Why current solutions fail

  • Images are still being proxied from external sources, causing delays
  • Current caching solutions do not effectively address the specific slow-loading issues

What to build

  • Create a tool to analyze and optimize image sizes for web use
  • Develop a caching plugin that addresses specific slow-loading issues
  • Offer a service to audit and improve WordPress site performance

Reasons to be careful

  • People already tried: WP Rocket, Various caching plugins — this space isn't empty.
  • The posts may be from a limited number of users who are particularly focused on performance issues, not representing the broader WordPress community.

Evidence

WP Rocket 3.23 causes severe delays/timeouts on WordPress ?p=POST_ID canonical redirects

Description WP Rocket 3.23 appears to introduce a regression affecting WordPress native post-ID URLs: https://example.com/?p=1624007 These URLs should immediately return a canonical 301 redirect to the final permalink. With WP Rocket 3.23 active, the redirect takes between 6 and 16 seconds and somet

github · LiquidaZona · 8/5/2026

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Cut hero image weight and self-host LCP photos to fix load/nav lag

## Summary Audited the site for the reported "slow hero load" + "laggy navigation" — measured with real Network/Performance timing in a production build, not guesses. Root cause: every page's hero (the LCP element) was being proxied live from `backtonature.net` on every single navigation, at quality

github · SebastianChacon · 8/3/2026

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Wordpress site extremely slow after migrating to Azure App Service and Azure Database for MySQL Flexible Sever

I was previously running both my wordpress application and the mysql database server installation inside the same Linux Virtual Machine on Azure. I recently migrated both to Azure App Service and Azure Database for MySQL Flexible Server respectively in the same region - East US. Unfortunately, this

stackexchange · Faye · 11/26/2021

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