Fixing a Suddenly Slow Website by Optimizing Caching

Project context

A website that previously loaded quickly suddenly became significantly slower.

Page load times increased and users experienced delays when navigating the site.

Goal

The goal was to identify the performance bottleneck and restore the original response speed.

Solution

Server logs and performance profiling revealed that the caching layer had been disabled after a configuration update.

Caching was restored and optimized using server-side caching mechanisms.

Result

Page load times returned to normal and server load decreased significantly.