Cloudflare wait time over 20 seconds

StackOverflow https://stackoverflow.com/questions/20670581

  •  19-09-2022
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Question

I have been trying to find ways to speed up the load time of my site, so I have turned to CloudFlare to see if I can improve my load time.

My site is thelocalgolfer.com and I host it with hostmonster. I took three consecutive gtMetrix tests w/o cloudflare enabled and then enabled cloudflare ran three consecutive gtMetrix tests w/ cloudflare enabled. You will see that with cloudflare enabled it takes on average 21 seconds of wait time on the initial load. I have spent hours on the phone with hostmonster tech support trying to troubleshoot the problem and they said they have exhausted all options on their side.

Also to note when cloudflare is enabled one of the errors I have been
getting is 
    Error : cURL error 6: Resolving host timed out: www.thelocalgolfer.com
    in the middle of the page after the page loads. The page still takes about 21 seconds

Try it yourself I still have it enabled (for now).

Here are the gtmetrix results with CloudFlare enabled:

http://gtmetrix.com/reports/www.thelocalgolfer.com/C3Yv7xNW
http://gtmetrix.com/reports/www.thelocalgolfer.com/Y35wcjzO
http://gtmetrix.com/reports/www.thelocalgolfer.com/x82tUdhH

Without Cloudflare enabled:

http://gtmetrix.com/reports/www.thelocalgolfer.com/NevlWuVV
http://gtmetrix.com/reports/www.thelocalgolfer.com/GDiEPUnG
http://gtmetrix.com/reports/www.thelocalgolfer.com/CcuvxYdq

By the way I have gone back and forth with CloudFlare and they have been less than helpful, they tell me to tweak this option or that option, and they take 24-48 hours to respond.

I am hoping that someone has experience with this issue and can help me out!

Thanks, Neil

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Solution 2

So for anyone that runs in to a similar problem, I was running simplepie on my site which was causing a loopback situation where the page was calling an RSS feed on the same domain.

OTHER TIPS

I actually posted some information in your support ticket relative to the issue. Doing a curl against the www record, with no CloudFlare in the middle, is returning a very large response time.

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