Drupal 7 is too slow on “first load”

Question

I hope someone can help me with this Drupal 7 issue. I noticed that loading time is very slow when I enter the site address for the \"first time\". It takes about 20 (average) s

Answer 1

This is (most likely) because of the Drupal Cron tasks that are run every few hours/days (depending on settings). Drupal then executes all the queued cron jobs.. which can take a long time.

Have a look at this drupal.stackoverflow page.

e: Also, this tweak may help, but I haven't tried this myself: http://drupal.org/node/1576686