i have just installed query monitor plugin - shed loads of information - most of it above my head but one part looks useful.

at the top you will find numbers - hovering over these you will get a drop down - go to queries
down the side at the bottom scroll down till you get to queries by component and you can then see how long it takes each component which loads up to do it.
at least you can see
i went into posts and view and it shows how long it takes for the post to load.
you can then navigate through your site looking for long loading points and hopefully fix them.
good luck
i hope support can help a bit, but no harm in looking yourself.
phil

One thing to check give some body your link and let them see if its loading slowly for them as it could be your own internet cache that's causing the problem

Barry

That is one for the support team where your website is hosted.

Did you change anything recently?

Update WordPress?
Update a WP theme?
Update a WP plugin?
Change any CSS code?
Upload any files using FTP?
I changed my htaaccess file and my site had issues. I immediately knew why and looked at the code I changed and saw the technical issue.

I agree with Ruzel; it may be one (or more) of your plugins causing the speed issue. That's been my experience. Try disabling your plugins, and re-activating them one at a time, testing speed between each.

Do you have a lot of plugins installed? Sometimes that can slow site speed down. If it were me, I would have site support look at it to determine what the issue could be. Hope you get it resolved.

Renee

Thank you to both of you for providing some suggestions. I will now see if either of these suggestions will work for my situation.

I appreciate you both taking the time and responding to my question.

Greg

To Get the video in the featured video spot instead of a featured image you can try this recommendation by wpbeginner.com

https://www.wpbeginner.com/plugins/how-to-add-featured-video-thumbnails-in-wordpress/

if you go to the video on youtube and go to the share button you will see an option called embed.

click that and then you can copy the HTML coding and insert it on your post or page.

You are also given an option to exclude youtube controls from your copy that you paste on to your post/page.

Sorry about the inconveniences, GShaw! It occurs like that once in a blue moon, though I haven't experienced this again in the last 13 months after the only once it happened when I was just logging in for the first time to my WordPress back office. And once I reported this to the Site Support, it was fixed for me right away. Please, do the same now. They will surely help you get it resolved.

SiteSupport looked after my issue

Absolutely amazing how quickly they were on the issue and had it fixed. Another amazing example of the type of support we get here on WA.

I don't know many other opportunities you'd get this kind of support and so fast.

Greg

Hi Greg,

If I had that problem, and because it has something to do with your website not functioning properly. I would do what Stuart has suggested and contact Tech Support.

I hope it's nothing major and very temporary!

All the best,

Diane

I had a similar problem and contacted support. Seems they have been having some server issues which have now been resolved.