: Why does DNS lookup take more than 6 seconds? I am running a photography website for my girlfriend, and currently trying to improve the site's loading speed. It is a photography website, and

@Shakeerah822

DNS lookups are not taking six seconds for all users, and you can confirm this by testing DNS speed with and of the third-party DNS speed testing services. Here is one example result from SolveDNS' test showing that DNS responses are actually very fast for the domain: www.solvedns.com/dnsspeedtest/evamilbrandt.de
Looking at the bigger picture, it appears that your web server does not have Keep Alive enabled, which is very strange. Enabling this is recommended (it is enabled by default) and will likely resolve the DNS issue because established connections will be re-used.

If speed is the goal, you have other optimizations you can make which are beyond the scope of this question, but you can consult a third-party testing site like GTmetrix for feedback on how fast your site is and what can be done to improve page load time. Here's a test I just ran for example: gtmetrix.com/reports/evamilbrandt.de/WN0LkH9B
Nice looking site by the way, now go make it fast and everyone will be happy!

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