High Latency 4-6s on WordPress sites

I have a few sites which are exhibiting a slow load time. All are WordPress 3.5. All are hosted through BlueHost. All are developed by me (built as child-themes of existing WP themes).

Using Safari Developer tools, I see that they average 4รขย€ย“6 seconds (not ms) of latency before anything happens, which appears to be abnormally high. I’ve tried to wrap my head around latency, and I know I’m not the only one to ask about it here … but I cannot figure out if the primary culprit is my hosting provider (Bluehost) or with my development.

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Here are a couple of my sites with issues:

http://www.HubbardProductions.com

http://www.xla.com

Can anyone point me in the right direction? What can I do to reduce the latency?

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  1. Chris, same problem here. Also with Bluehost + WordPress 3.5.

    Some minutes ago, my sites even went down, and I was unable even to access cPanel. I received the following error:

    Auth failed69.89.31.120:2083 is temporarily down.

    I contacted the technical staff and they told me to try again, deleting cookies, and also sent me this url:

    https://my.bluehost.com/cgi/help/481

    Which, in my case, is of little help, but perhaps it can help you.

    I asked them if there was any problem with the servers lately and they said nope, no issues.

    So, to answer your question, I would:

    1. Wait a few days, in case it is temporary (I hope).
    2. If not, I would run some tests with simple html pages, then php, then php + simple SQL, etc., to find the bottleneck, and if it is a server issue or a wordpress issue.
    3. If I find it is a server issue, I would complain.
    4. If everything fails, I would move my sites to other hosting. Bye-bye Bluehost. ๐Ÿ™

    Good luck!