Load speed of Local is very slow on windows 11... Why and how do i fix it?

[sambrockway]

Hello there @MrMarqua - thank you for bringing your question the Local community!

There has been lots of chatter around Local performance + Windows machines, this thread has several helpful ideas that may increase the speed:

Local is too slow with wordpress and windows 10

I too can confirm this works. My site is badly optimized and it took literally 30 secs on local for pages to start appearing. Changed the .local to other name like .localwp. Now it only took like 5 secs to load. Still slow but at least I can work figuring out what cause the slow load, much better than waiting 30 secs every time.

Specifically, in that thread, have you tried renaming the host name? It seems like the term local may in fact be causing performance issues:

Local is too slow with wordpress and windows 10

I had a 10 second delay trying to resolve pages too. Windows 10, any browser. Was getting frustrated. I created a new site “redesign”, with twentytwenty2 theme, no plugins and it was still slow. Redesign.local Tried pinging my site like “ping redesign.local” and found it was taking a lot longer to resolve the IP than if I just typed “ping google.com”. Found some general stuff on google regarding windows dns and “.local” stuff and delays for mac, windows, servers, etc… Found that if I just …

Let me know if those things help!

Sam