Wordpress site painfully slow

Question

What tools are there out there for determining why a site takes so long to load pages?

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Answer 1

I saw a front page load time of 7.5 seconds (according to wp-super-cache).

I'd first look at the amount of content you're listing on the front page. Try reducing it down to just the first day's content at the top and see if the page speeds up. If that works then you need to look at optimizing the content pull on the front page. If those are each a WordPress loop then you're going through a lot of high load routines. You might look at using filters on each of those WP Queries to only pull the small amount of data that you need to display the page.