title: Slow Page Load Times - Long 'Wait' Period According to Pingdom
body: <p>My page load times have been wildly fluctuating, and sometimes it takes so long to serve a page that I get a server timed out error, even during relatively quiet times of day for my site.</p>
  
  <p>I have been using pingdom to check page load times and to try and find where the problem lies.</p>
  
  <p>It seems when a page loads normally (in approx 6 seconds), there is a 1.63 second 'Wait' Time for the main html file, before it starts receiving the file.
  You can see this here:
  <a href="http://tools.pingdom.com/fpt/#!/GEoqJlVdZ/http://www.bluedogposters.com.au/shopdisplayproducts.asp?id=11&amp;cat=Movies" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http://tools.pingdom.com/fpt/#!/GEoqJlVdZ/http://www.bluedogposters.com.au/shopdisplayproducts.asp?id=11&amp;cat=Movies</a></p>
  
  <p>But 2 minutes later, when the same page is taking 17 seconds to load, there is an 11.7 second Wait Time before starting to receive this same html file.
  You can see an example here:
  <a href="http://tools.pingdom.com/fpt/#!/he2L5Jhgz/http://www.bluedogposters.com.au/shopdisplayproducts.asp?id=11&amp;cat=Movies" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http://tools.pingdom.com/fpt/#!/he2L5Jhgz/http://www.bluedogposters.com.au/shopdisplayproducts.asp?id=11&amp;cat=Movies</a></p>
  
  <p>Do you know what can cause this difference in the Wait times because it seems this is the reason my site has been so slow recently.
  Accoring to the Waterfall chart, there is nothing else happening, so why the Wait?</p>
  
  <p>Is it more likely to be a code or server issue? 
  I found some useful info here <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/10938682/how-to-reduce-server-wait-time">How to reduce server &quot;Wait&quot; time?</a> </p>
  
  <p>Any advice is much appreciated.</p>