This is the latest version of Zen. Everything seems to run just fine. I have searched here and googled on several occasions. So far I have not found anything that seems to fit this particular issue.

What seems to be happening is an initial parse time of 20 seconds, Query times are always well under 1 second. typical around .08 - .12 seconds. The parse time only jumps up and it is always exactly 20.xxx seconds.

It is most noticeable if I have not been to the site in a while. Say an hour or so. Every subsequent page load parse times are normal. >1 second. I am at a loss here and cannot explain it to the customer.

Does anyone have any idea at all what this could be? I know we are losing some people while they are waiting for the page to load.

FWIW you will have to view source to see the Parse times, they are not "on page" but they are embedded in source near the end of page.

It seems it may be a cache issue, where the cache must be rebuilt if it is aged? IDK I am drawing straws. hopefully someone here can point what I am missing.

site is at http://www.bodyjewels.com