Title: php processes
Last modified: August 22, 2016

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# php processes

 *  [rltullis](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rltullis/)
 * (@rltullis)
 * [11 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/php-processes/)
 * so my host says that my php processes are what are making my site struggle/load
   slow. at times i have one gong and then it spikes to 6 or 7. I get around 4k 
   visits per 30 days so not super high traffic. Is there a way to see what the 
   php processes are so i can back track and figure out the cause?

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 *  [Andrew Nevins](https://wordpress.org/support/users/anevins/)
 * (@anevins)
 * WCLDN 2018 Contributor | Volunteer support
 * [11 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/php-processes/#post-5623518)
 * 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.
 *  Thread Starter [rltullis](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rltullis/)
 * (@rltullis)
 * [11 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/php-processes/#post-5623519)
 * yes i use chrome
 *  [Andrew Nevins](https://wordpress.org/support/users/anevins/)
 * (@anevins)
 * WCLDN 2018 Contributor | Volunteer support
 * [11 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/php-processes/#post-5623521)
 * Cool, when your website has loaded, right click on the page and press “Inspect
   element”. A new toolbar appears. Select the [“Network” tab](https://developer.chrome.com/devtools#improving-network-performance)
   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&#8221](http://example.com&#8221);
   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.
 *  [Andrew Nevins](https://wordpress.org/support/users/anevins/)
 * (@anevins)
 * WCLDN 2018 Contributor | Volunteer support
 * [11 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/php-processes/#post-5623522)
 * Hopefully that’ll narrow it down to a plugin and we can go from there.
 *  Thread Starter [rltullis](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rltullis/)
 * (@rltullis)
 * [11 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/php-processes/#post-5623526)
 * are you sure it is ctrl r on mac?
 *  [Andrew Nevins](https://wordpress.org/support/users/anevins/)
 * (@anevins)
 * WCLDN 2018 Contributor | Volunteer support
 * [11 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/php-processes/#post-5623527)
 * Don’t know that actually, but forget that, just right click on that same “Network”
   tab and you should get the option to clear this cache stuff.
 *  [Andrew Nevins](https://wordpress.org/support/users/anevins/)
 * (@anevins)
 * WCLDN 2018 Contributor | Volunteer support
 * [11 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/php-processes/#post-5623528)
 * 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
 *  Thread Starter [rltullis](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rltullis/)
 * (@rltullis)
 * [11 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/php-processes/#post-5623529)
 * strange but the number of processes drop in the evening, at least it has for 
   the last 2 nights. i did not have this issue with my last host. could it by that
   this host limits cpu usage more than my last?
 *  Thread Starter [rltullis](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rltullis/)
 * (@rltullis)
 * [11 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/php-processes/#post-5623530)
 * well all i see is one of my plugins and the theme. ill turn off the plugin and
   watch and then try the theme. seems strange though that this theme casues a problem
   on this host but not my last. why would it change?
 *  [Andrew Nevins](https://wordpress.org/support/users/anevins/)
 * (@anevins)
 * WCLDN 2018 Contributor | Volunteer support
 * [11 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/php-processes/#post-5623534)
 * That is strange for a plugin, or a theme to do that temporarily and at a certain
   time, if they are doing that. Other than themes/ plugins it’s outside of my knowledge,
   I’m sorry I cannot help further.
 *  Thread Starter [rltullis](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rltullis/)
 * (@rltullis)
 * [11 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/php-processes/#post-5623535)
 * thanks, im still searching. not sure where else to go. plan to do a duplicate
   of the site on another host and see if i get the same issues

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