Clicking on links is very slow even though individual pages are fast

[movieseals]

Hi guys!

I have a problem that puzzles me. My website is really slow: clicking a link, even a link with barebones stuff in it, is very slow.  But if I test pages directly, most of them load super fast.  I have optimized my images, still have work to do to combine css and javascript but it is getting there, I score high on time to first byte for most of the pages and get high score for optimization and compression overall.  Yet, clicking on a link can take up to ten seconds before the page is show.  Entering the link directly in the browser is ten times faster.  Anybody knows why?  It does not matter what page.  I have all the caches enabled, so I am at a loss for the probable cause.

I also installed mod_page speed, which help with some of the css and javascript issues, but still does nothing for the very slow linkage.  Could it be related to SSL?  I checked the SSL and we score high too there for connectivity.  Any clues will be appreciated.

[led24ee]

It still is very slow. I experienced something similar when server was misconfigured with .htacces file.

Edited July 31, 2019 by led24ee

[yaniv14]

Can you share a link to your site

[movieseals]

6 hours ago, yaniv14 said:

Can you share a link to your site

Sorry!  It used to be in my signature: https://www.librairiezbookstore.com.  Thanks for the help.

[datakick]

Every page takes many seconds to load, regardless if I enter it into address bar directly, or if I click on it

[wakabayashi]

Same here: Every page I tried loads slow.

[movieseals]

If you guys went this morning (my time zone), all the caches were disabled.  I was busy replacing some modules with the brand new HTML block module!  I was able to replace about a dozen modules so far!  Great touch!  Caches should be back to normal now.

[movieseals]

On 7/31/2019 at 2:33 PM, led24ee said:

It still is very slow. I experienced something similar when server was misconfigured with .htacces file.

That is interesting.  However, I only use the auto generated htaccess created by TB.

[led24ee]

I don't have this version anymore. But if I remember correctly then my host did also something, this was with PS and TB 1.0. And I tried to ban some IP's with htaccess.

[movieseals]

1 hour ago, led24ee said:

I don't have this version anymore. But if I remember correctly then my host did also something, this was with PS and TB 1.0. And I tried to ban some IP's with htaccess.

Interesting.  It at least gives me a direction to investigate.  Thank you so much!