You may remember how pleased I was with myself recently, to have found the cause of my website’s low performance – A huge file that was slowing everything down?

Well, I seem to have sorted out the back end too, the admin area, that is!

When everything was running slow, I installed a system that should make everything run really quickly – just how Google likes it when ranking a website.

It seems I made a hopeful tweak, before I had my breakthrough, that slowed down the back end. But, as everything was still slow, I din’t notice any change, and didn’t switch off the tweak.

Every now and then, I get frustrated and search for solutions.

Something new came up today. It didn’t help but it did lead me to a back-end page I’d not taken much notice of before. There was a tab called “Debug”. I knew it would be gobbledygook to me, but I clicked it anyway.

It told me it couldn’t connect to a cache server – in fact it told me frequently. In fact it was trying to connect every few seconds and failing.

I’d turned on all sorts of things hoping to speed things up – maybe they weren’t necessary? Maybe if I turned them off…

POW!

My back end – if you’ll excuse the phrase – was being slowed-down by processes that I had hoped would speed things up!

Sometimes it’s possible to be too clever by half!