Recently my site started to use excessive loading times on every page. After the first GET request I have this:
"receive" : 2,
"dns" : 15,
"send" : 0,
"ssl" : 100,
"wait" : 6005,
"blocked" : 1,
"connect" : 142
I suspect this has to do with the SSL certificate (Let's Encrypt) as my identical subdomain http://stage.example.com does not behave like this. The waiting time is about 1 sec on the stage site.
I have this in my .htaccess file to redirect users to https:
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTPS} !=on
# This checks to make sure the connection is not already HTTPS
RewriteRule ^/?(.*) https://%{SERVER_NAME}/$1 [R,L]
# This rule will redirect users from their original location, to the same location but using HTTPS.
# i.e. http://www.example.com/foo/ to https://www.example.com/foo/
# The leading slash is made optional so that this will work either in httpd.conf
# or .htaccess context
# Set "protossl" to "s" if we were accessed via https://. This is used later
# if you enable "www." stripping or enforcement, in order to ensure that
# you don't bounce between http and https.
RewriteRule ^ - [E=protossl]
RewriteCond %{HTTPS} on
RewriteRule ^ - [E=protossl:s]
Anyone who can think of a possible reason for this loading time on my production site?
EDITED: Sorry, the redirect rule was incomplete, the code above is what I use. Also when accessing a phpinfo.php file directly in the root, there is hardly any waiting time (<50 ms).
