Quote Originally Posted by chestercat View Post
There are currently no products in the shop, I have only set up the categories so far. I have disabled the new, featured and upcoming products and turned on Gzip compression but don't see any noticeable speed increase. I think my hosting provider is blocking the load averages because it shows Unsupported next to the Server Up Time. There may be nothing else to do but reduce the number of categories.
or change your hosting to something more suitable....