I'm trying to figure out why, all of a sudden, my site is running abnormally slowly. It started yesterday afternoon and I'm still trying to figure out why. I didn't change anything that I can think of, other than adding a new article or two. Here's a link to the site: http://www.marinmommies.com/.
What's so maddening is that it seems intermittently slow: sometimes pages load extremely quickly (and they should, since we're using Boost and running the site through CloudFlare), sometimes they take a while to load, with the browser lingering on the "Waiting for…" or "Connecting to…" message.
I've tried disabling modules that I suspect might be causing the slowness, I've looked at the database for crashed tables or other problems, and I've checked it out both as an anonymous and logged-in user, where it exhibits pretty much the same behavior. The server logs don't tell me anything, and the hosting account does limit resources but that seems to be under control. Everything works fine—no timeouts, errors, etc. It's just sluggish.
The only other thing I can think of that I did recently was edit the filters for a view of "What's popular" content. I'm going to try disabling it and see what happens.