: Does my hosting provider have an impact on my website loading speed? My website size is around 3.3 MB and takes 7 seconds to load! My hosting provider is some x.com and my nameservers are

@BetL925

Since before a browser can download a website it needs to resolve the domain name, slow nameservers can be a problem. It doesn't matter whether you use the same provider for DNS and website though.

Your hosting provider most likely has a lot more impact on your website loading speed. Of course if your site is larger it will load slower but there can be are huge differences between providers.

But even if your provider is fast, if it's not including a CDN it can be still very slow to users far away from the physical location of the provider's servers. This is how response times looked for mail.live.com:
(take some time last week).

As you can see, even though the response times are good in New York, they are really bad in Singapore.

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@Ann8826881

Does my hosting provider have an impact on my website loading speed?


It can have, but that's probably not the main cause in this instance.


Does it need to have the nameservers from my hosting company?


No.


Where am I possibly going wrong?


The million dollar question, with a million (approx) possible answers.

If you've ruled out that it's not the network between you and your website then it could literally be anything to do with your website. Is your site doing anything particularly taxing?


How does the site perform on your development server?
Too many/conflicting plugins on a WordPress install is a common one (but also, incredibly broad).
You can make improvements with client/server-side caching and compression. But that's only an "optimisation". You still need to cut the load time by half - at least.

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