Help please - create page to warn of site slowness

slow site fix

[Mark_Young]

I have various wordpress websites that generate their content dynamically via an API.

As the sites have grown they has slowed down considerably. I am in the process of getting the sites and their hardware looked to see how we can get around this bottle-neck, but in the mean time I would like to try to keep all visitors on site so they wait for pages to load.

My idea is to have a page that loads instantly when the visitor visits the site and notifies them of the site slowness, that we know there is a problem, and ask them to please wait while the page renders.

My question is regards to how best to achieve this in Wordresss without falling foul of any Google penalties. I don't want the notice to be indexed (or even seen by Google if possible) and I don't want it to interfere with any existing page rank etc.

How best to proceed?

Thanks for any help with this

[not2easy]

I am not sure that you can do this without causing ranking problems because anything other than the display of the page you have indexed would be seen as a "soft 404". it would not take long for google to see that clicks are not going where people thought they were landing, and showing a different result to users and google is definitely not a good idea.

You are doing the right thing to look into ways to speed up page loading, but overlays and "please wait" are not a good user experience. Beyond optimizing images and scripts, leveraging cache for resources and limiting the use of superfluous plugins or resource requests, one more place to look is at hosting capabilities.

[Mark_Young]

Thank you for the feedback, it's appreciated. I'll prioritise those things you mentioned now..

[tangor]

Also pack and optimize the database regularly ... makes a difference!

[Rosalie]

Best solution is to change a good dedicated server as soon.