Title: WordPress website exceeding CPU usage?
Last modified: August 30, 2016

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# WordPress website exceeding CPU usage?

 *  Anonymous User
 * (@anonymized-3905352)
 * [10 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-website-exceeding-cpu-usage/)
 * Hi,
 * I got a message this morning from my hosting provider (hostgator) my website 
   has exceeded CPU usage. They’re telling me it’s coming from my index.php page.
   I’m not sure what to do about this.
 * I should also mention my WP website recently got hacked. I believe I corrected
   the issue but now I’m getting this message from my host. How should I go about
   fixing this problem? What should I do next?

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 *  [1upnate](https://wordpress.org/support/users/1upnate/)
 * (@1upnate)
 * [10 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-website-exceeding-cpu-usage/#post-6727836)
 * `They're telling me it's coming from my index.php`
 * If that’s the case, it probably has to do with some heavy traffic to your site,
   whether legitimate or not.
 * As someone who works for a web host, I would recommend making sure your files
   are “clean” as in the core files resembling that of a new installation, and making
   sure you have some sort of caching plugin setup. You never know how much that
   helps till you sit there and look at the load on a server while sending tons 
   of requests to the page.
 *  Thread Starter Anonymous User
 * (@anonymized-3905352)
 * [10 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-website-exceeding-cpu-usage/#post-6727856)
 * How would I even look at the load on the server? Where can i get that info?

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 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
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 * Last activity: [10 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-website-exceeding-cpu-usage/#post-6727856)
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