Hello, can website theme affect server response time?
I have two websites with Newspaper theme and I got the error Root document took 1.6s or more. (bucharestjournal.ro/calculatorescu.ro on same host provider, different cpanel)
The website that does it more often is calculatorescu.ro
I’ve also tested on two different hosting and other blogs hosted there have no problem with initial response time (sometimes some ms, but that’s it)
For reference: I scan both calculatorescu.ro and mariuscalin.ro (one has newspaper theme, the other doesn’t) that are hosted in the same place. Only calculatorescu always have problems with response time.
It has php version 7.4.23
WP version 5.8.1
Wp memory limit 256
And using LiteSpeed caching plugin (I tried to deactivate it and it doesn’t improve response time)
Can you take a look at this and give me some ideas on how to improve server response time? It causes me problems with LCP and SEO.
Thank you!
*I scan them with gtmetrix
After few hours of testing I found the issue 🙂
Cookie plugin was adding that extra loading time.
Site is now back at 90%+ performance in gtmetrix.
Hope it helps other people too, if you run into the same issue, deactivate plugins 1 by 1 and test again till score improve.
Have a nice day!
