php processes

Umm maybe, do you have the browser Chrome? I say Chrome because I know it best, but there are others that other people may be able to suggest you to use for this example.

Cool, when your website has loaded, right click on the page and press “Inspect element”. A new toolbar appears. Select the “Network” tab and hard-refresh the page, usually by pressing the key ctrl + the key R at the same time.

Once your Webpage (it’ll just be for the one page you visit, not the whole site) loads you will see a breakdown of what’s causing the site to load. And there you will see the PHP file being loaded. That’s the one that causes the PHP processes. That’s what you should focus on. Okay, that should be at the top of the list in the Networks tab. It might just be called the URL of the webpage, e.g. “http://example.com” and it’ll be represented as a file. It’ll show the loading time to the right of it.

Right. So you can *monitor* your PHP processes and you’re not just relying on your hosts, great! Now start deactivating your plugins to explore whether any affect the loading, improve it etc.

Ugh I swear that used to work, okay forget that too! Instead in the “Network” tab click on the “Disable cache” checkbox and then refresh the page :p