Title: High CPU load
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# High CPU load

 *  [jweasl](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jweasl/)
 * (@jweasl)
 * [15 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/high-cpu-load-3/)
 * I need to bring down the CPU load on my blog – [http://thefrugalfind.com](http://thefrugalfind.com).
 * I am on shared hosting, and my server is currently being throttled. I have moved
   over to a CDN for my content, but I have a feeling I need to do more. I do use
   lots of plugins, but everything that is currently active is needed.
 * Help?

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 *  [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/)
 * (@esmi)
 * [15 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/high-cpu-load-3/#post-1694649)
 * Try installing a caching plugin.
 *  Thread Starter [jweasl](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jweasl/)
 * (@jweasl)
 * [15 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/high-cpu-load-3/#post-1694736)
 * Currently using W3 Total Cache, with the CDN option using maxCDN. Page caching
   and every other caching I have available is enabled. Any other suggestions?
 *  [webjunk](https://wordpress.org/support/users/webjunk/)
 * (@webjunk)
 * [15 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/high-cpu-load-3/#post-1694746)
 * You need to go over your site. Almost 2MB is from images alone. With the rest
   of the page objects it is a joke. Think of the download times…
    Then there is
   the sheer number. My script reported 93 total images. Too many scripts. And content
   seems to be pulling from a number of external websites which if that is processed
   Server-side it would kill the CPU.
 *  Thread Starter [jweasl](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jweasl/)
 * (@jweasl)
 * [15 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/high-cpu-load-3/#post-1694752)
 * Right… Most of the images are hosted on a CDN, so that shouldn’t be affecting
   my CPU resources much. I’m not super savvy on all this stuff – I can do CSS editing,
   but honestly don’t even know where to start.
 * Can you give me any specific direction as to what to do?
 * Thanks.
 *  [webjunk](https://wordpress.org/support/users/webjunk/)
 * (@webjunk)
 * [15 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/high-cpu-load-3/#post-1694834)
 * First, I would not ignore anything just because it is being served from elsewhere.
   It still directly effects the site visitor negativly. Unless you do not care 
   about having site visitors. And its part of the total picture anyway.
    Google
   for “website analyzer” and choose one. The better ones should be able to point
   out what needs to be changed for optimization. Then check the site against: [http://validator.w3.org/](http://validator.w3.org/)
   and you will probbly find many coding errors that need to be fixed. Don’t worry
   about the small ones for now. Finally you need to change the structure of the
   site for **visitors**. Again unless you do not want visitors to your website.(
   They always seem to be the forgotten people) Your main page takes 30 PageDowns
   to reach the bottom. Besides that much content on one page causes the problems
   I stated before, research has shown visitors will not pagedown that many times.
   4-6 should be max. And reduce the amount of ads on the page. When you have too
   many, they ALL just get ignored.

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