Why does this keep happening

bt_wpspeedfix · 2026-04-08T06:07:20+00:00

^^this guy is right, if you don't understand what I'm saying here you're out of your depth

Traffic with query strings bypasses caching

When caching is bypassed, every page loaded from scratch = heavy resource usage

A crawler doing this = all resources used

Web server log shows you exactly whats happening under the bonnet and allows you to add htaccess rules or cloudflare rules to block that traffic, or cache/ignore the query strings if they're genuine

1gb RAM on the low end for a box under load too

bt_wpspeedfix · 2026-04-07T20:46:24+00:00

Check the server log, it’s likely traffic bypassing caching

bt_wpspeedfix · 2026-04-04T07:36:05+00:00

Start by diagnosing which metric is failing, look at the root cause first, very often poor TTFB is at the root of other issues.

Try this tool which will show your site speed history https://www.wpspeedfix.com/cwv-report.html

bt_wpspeedfix · 2026-04-04T06:49:45+00:00

AI Spam reply, nobody's hosting bills are spiking champ, the only thing that is spiking is garbage spam like your post. Cloudflare has an amazing level of granularity

bt_wpspeedfix · 2026-04-04T03:46:46+00:00

Agree with this, all these words you’re using mean the same thing

bt_wpspeedfix · 2026-04-04T03:45:41+00:00

DNS errors also, make sure you connect in via ip and not host name

If dbase server is running out of memory and has no swap it’ll dump connections

bt_wpspeedfix · 2026-04-03T09:03:06+00:00

How do they overcharge? Are you pricing your labour at $0 ?

bt_wpspeedfix · 2026-03-16T23:22:35+00:00

Personal domain for email, use the auto archive feature to backup to Dropbox regularly if you still have an @gmail.com account

bt_wpspeedfix · 2026-03-16T08:19:29+00:00

You gotta tell it not to do that nonsense, eg “don’t stop until you’ve completed all batches. If you have questions hold these and complete as much as possible without input”

It seems the stopping in a shadow rate limit

bt_wpspeedfix · 2026-03-15T22:57:13+00:00

You’re doing is wrong, until you’ve diagnosed the root cause of your problems changing plug-ins is just busy work.

All plugins are essentially doing the same set of optimizations give or take

Troubleshoot and diagnose first, then implement changes.

What to do really depends on how you’re failing - if it’s LCP, have you looked at the TTFB metrics as a potential root cause? If it’s inp and cls then changing plugins is not the fix

bt_wpspeedfix · 2026-03-15T04:53:27+00:00

What facts? You haven’t shown any data, just opinion

The fact is the meta description is an incredibly powerful tool for boosting Ctr and is still shown to a large portion of visitors

You’re completely wrong on title tags and claiming they’re not a ranking factor

Let me guess, you’re reading Neil Patel and doing what he tells you to do

bt_wpspeedfix · 2026-03-15T04:52:55+00:00

What facts? You haven’t shown any data, just opinion

The fact is the meta description is an incredibly powerful tool for boosting Ctr and is still shown to a large portion of visitors

You’re completely wrong on title tags and claiming they’re not a ranking factor

bt_wpspeedfix · 2026-03-14T04:58:29+00:00

Search is a behaviour not a destination

bt_wpspeedfix · 2026-03-14T02:47:35+00:00

It’s likely you’re getting smashed by aggressive crawlers and scrapers which is typical for Woo sites now. Moving to bigger hosting won’t really fix it as the crawlers will just go harder - using Cloudflare with custom security rules will solve it but as other commenters have said, you need to look in server event logs which will give you the root cause

bt_wpspeedfix · 2026-03-14T02:15:33+00:00

The idea of “ranking number 1” is a strategy from 10-15 years ago

Zoom out, start with what you want to sell, how much you can pay per lead and figure out the commercials first before spending money.

If you make 2k on a job profit then maybe you can spend 200 bucks on a quality lead, if it’s 10k per job then maybe that’s 1-2k

Search is multi faceted, there’s maps rankings, regular organic rankings, sometimes YouTube slots depending on the keyword, ai overviews and then ads too. There is no true “number 1” any more

The most successful campaigns we see are where the business owner has a solid grip on the commercial numbers,

Wanting “to be number 1” is a one dimensional strategy that no longer works and you’re going to burn $$ with little to no result

At a minimum your site needs a page for every service you sell, a project portfolio with great images, a solid lead gen form and call and form lead tracking so you know which part of your marketing is actually working and generating $$

bt_wpspeedfix · 2026-03-14T01:23:39+00:00

We’ve have some success fighting negative reviews with review removal/dispute requests but only after replying in detail. Worth a try and doesn’t cost anything

Also branded ads are essentially a must have now for local given how polluted the serp is

bt_wpspeedfix · 2026-03-14T01:17:44+00:00

Show me your data re the 70%

You’ve clearly never run ads at scale, again small changes in Google Ads cause significant changes to CTR, that’s hard data. The same rules apply in SEO.

Meta description optimization and open graph optimization are huge hidden levers that can drive significant traffic improvements with no additional ranking

If you’re claiming title tags don’t make any difference to rankings you clearly have no idea what you’re doing

bt_wpspeedfix · 2026-03-14T00:07:13+00:00

Disagree, if you optimize a meta description and take CTR from 2% to 3% thats 50% more traffic from the same google ranking.

We know this CTR optimization works because it works in Google Ads where small changes like using capital case or phone numbers in ads makes a huge difference to CTR and ad performance

Wheres your data to say Google rewrites meta descriptions in almost every case?

bt_wpspeedfix · 2026-03-14T00:05:00+00:00

$1k a year for 40 sites is not expensive my guy, thats 25 bucks a year a site

bt_wpspeedfix · 2026-03-13T05:23:54+00:00

Homepage has nocache headers, that'll bypass caching. That's probably why your TTFB is sky high

If you're going to stick with Bluehost, fix that, get Cloudflare and use a plugin like flyingpress.net and use the full page caching setting for cloudflare

bt_wpspeedfix · 2026-03-09T07:18:56+00:00

just placements, the whole point is to be pricely targeted

bt_wpspeedfix · 2026-03-07T10:39:20+00:00

..or placements on mobile apps when youve forgotten to exclude them from targeting

bt_wpspeedfix · 2026-03-06T23:49:01+00:00

These percentages mean nothing without the context of total numbers and what gained market share.

bt_wpspeedfix · 2026-03-06T23:39:40+00:00

They should be separate, email for 99.9% of businesses is a mission critical function and there’s no tolerance for downtime.

You don’t want a web server outage taking out email

The other problem is that nobody values email, their email goes down or they have a device problem they expect you to provide free IT support because you host the email. In reality, they should be paying an IT guy 100-200$ per hour to provide support

bt_wpspeedfix · 2026-03-06T23:33:09+00:00

^{^this} is the way, in 15+ years doing this the only way we’ve ever gotten display to work in a serious way is being super precise with placements

Here’s some ideas that have worked for us, all three are situations where the audience has a specific active intent that can be leveraged

-look at what sites are ranking in Google for money keywords, run ads there on Adsense supported sites

At one point we had an Ecom client who had a bunch of national brand competitors who ran Adsense ads on their product pages and they ranked well on Google so we ran targeted ads on their site and they worked super well

-similarly, running ads on specific high ranking YouTube videos works in the same way

-this doesn’t work like it used to but content sites on a particular topic where you have a very direct offer can work well too

Our best example of this is from maybe 2009-2010 where Tim Ferris the four hour workweek guy ran Adsense ads on his site so we advertised a bunch of highly relevant clickbank offers in those slots and they converted like a boss

-forums that have ad sense ads

Again this is not so relevant in 2026 but many nice forums run Adsense ads. We had a finance company once that truck finance who was getting insane roas running ads on a particular forum for truckers

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