Hi Anamaria, I am having similar issues with page speed since a few weeks.

My website http://www.pressure-magazine.de is very slow and has a very bad page speed ranking at the moment. I have installed with the latest TagDiv newspaper version. Over the last weeks I stepped up to the fastest managed server product at my server hoster. I had 2 IT consultants, plus the full troubleshooting service team at my server hoster working on the page performance, without success.

During our investigations on the page, we discovered, that tagDiv (The pagebuilder) generates lots of database calls, which are slowing the page down up from the very first call of the HOME page.

Example: Home page:

Total calls of the DB: 1.237 calls | Total time: 2,1272
Calls of the DB from the Pluigin td-composer: 1183 | Time: 2,0234

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Which is also mostly the reason for the 500 (Server Error), because the pagebuilder sometimes makes very slow queries and then very fast opens over 300 open connections to MySQL and my hosting provider (webgo) allows max 300 connections. (normally websites should open ONE connection)

> Would you please provide feedback why so many server requests are necessary ??

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What we have tried:

– Memory limit increased from 265 to 512mb.
– .httaccess slightly adjusted and modified.
– gzip delivery, 301 redirect to https: //
– reduction of banner ads
– compression and optimization of all images (around 13k)
– severall caching options via recommented WP plugin
– removed jetpack to avoid additional loading time