WP Admin extremely slow

Question

The WP back end of a site I\'m working on (It\'s a multisite) takes about 25 seconds to load.

Everything was working fine until yesterday and the front end still works p

Answer 1

I also had a very slow Dashboad in wordpress. Reading the James C´s answer, I realized that my site is located in a corporate intranet behind a firewall to access internet.

James C answered: "I've seen this before where the admin pages are trying to poll external Wordpress sites for details of Wordpress upgrades, plugin updates and Wordpress news. If there's no proper access (because of firewall restrictions, bad DNS, etc) then the page has to wait for the HTTP requests (I think WP uses cURL) to timeout."

My solution was avoid all the internet conections: (1) disable all the wordpress updates using the wordpress plugin "Disable all wordpress updates". (2) activate de wordpress pluging "Disable google fonts"

After these two plugin activations, the Dashboard works to a suitable speed.