[SOLVED - SERVER ERROR] Diagnose Slow Page Load Problem

[Mallee Boy]

My site has slowed down dramatically and is taking up to a minute to load the home page. I do not recall installing or changing anything on my site lately. Back end is Quick. Front end is far too slow.

 

I am looking for someone who can diagnose the problem. I have used Yslow and Page Speed in Firefox but I do not understand the results.

 

Please help if you have skills in diagnosing slow page loading.

Edited October 15, 2012 by David @ gfe. (see edit history)

[El Patron]

start with this:

http://www.prestatraining.com/gzip-compression-browser-caching/

 

if you have not made any changes then you may consider contacting your web hosting company...

[Mallee Boy]

Thanks Elpatron. I rang my host, they said the problem is in my .htaccess, which Kurt also talks about, but they are not able to tell me what the problem is. I notice my .htaccess looks different to Curt's. Mine looks this way: Its one long string in some places and has a filter section with nothing in it.

 

Any advice?

 

<IfModule mod_expires.c>

ExpiresActive On

ExpiresByType image/gif "access plus 1 month"

ExpiresByType image/jpeg "access plus 1 month"

ExpiresByType image/png "access plus 1 month"

ExpiresByType text/css "access plus 1 week"

ExpiresByType text/javascript "access plus 1 week"

ExpiresByType application/javascript "access plus 1 week"

ExpiresByType application/x-javascript "access plus 1 week"

ExpiresByType image/x-icon "access plus 1 year"

</IfModule>

 

FileETag INode MTime Size

<IfModule mod_deflate.c>

<IfModule mod_filter.c>

AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/html text/css text/plain text/javascript application/javascript application/x-javascript

</IfModule>

</IfModule>