How Fast Is Your WordPress Dashboard? Help!

How fast is your WordPress dashboard? How long does it take to open a new page or new post?

For me, working on my website here for the past few years, the norm has been about 25 seconds to open a new page or new post and around 10 seconds to wait for saving a change.

And then, whenever I made changes for 4-6 times, saving no longer works where the top right corner doesn't show the "Saved" status. I had to close all my working tabs relating to my website and then relogin again via Site Manager.

The waiting time above and the constant need to relogin has been terribly frustrating.

I thought it is a norm for WordPress until I had a chance to try designing a website elsewhere with another hosting company.

There, loading a new page or post just take me 3 seconds, saving 2-3 seconds and no issue with refreshing the page I'm working on to see the changes.

Productivity has been excellent over there.

Realising this, I raised a ticket with Site Support to seek help to see why is it so slow here at Wealthy Affiliate hosting.

I'm still working with them on it but it seems there is little that can be done.

What Has Been Done So Far?

What has been suggested to me and I followed are:

1. Try different browser
2. Clearing browser cookies, cache, or temporary internet files and flush the DNS cache.
3. Deleting unused plugins. I deleted 6 plugins (1 deactivated and deleted, remaining 5 was already not active and I deleted them

None of the above work to improve the speed at the backend. (Note: I'm not talking about PageSpeed, just WordPress Dashboard performance)

My website was also checked to be on PHP8 server.

So the verdict so far from Site Support is that there is no issue on the server end.

I'm told that I have too many plugins which I have 21 plugins installed but all in use.

In the other website that I'm working on which is so much faster, I have 15 plugins, and they are very similar.

I don't really buy in that the "many" plugins really matter that much - 25 seconds vs 3 seconds.

Getting Information from Site Support

I tried to enquire with Site Support the following but I'm not able to get an answer:

1. How many seconds does it take from your end to load a new page? (So that we can compare)
2. Could it be because I am based in Asia and the server is in Canada? (I'm not savvy on server but I can guess is it because of the distance causing the lag. At least let me know, even if it is a dumb question?)

Instead of answering my questions, I was asked to do something else. I really don't know why.

Seeking Help from the Community

Can I reach out to all of you reading this to share with me:

1. How long does it take for you to load a new page or post and where are you located?
2. And do you experience any issues with saving your work where it hangs after a while?
3. Do you have any other solutions for me to troubleshoot so that the performance of my WordPress Dashboard can run faster?

I'd really appreciate to hear from all of you.

Help.

Thank you.

Regards,
Richard