Cloudflare on my website, however, when I did my site was still not loading optimally. It's >400kb site with ~16 requests loading at anywhere between quickest of 1.6 to the slowest I had was 2.9 seconds. A majority of this was taken by the response time of the server to respond to the connection request.

https://tools.pingdom.com/#!/dTL5Or/https://www.danieltaylorproducer.com.au/

When I tried to bring this up someone from the team explained to me that they did a speed test and this is what they sent me Verbatim "I have taken a look at both of your sites and can see that danieltaylorproducer.com.au loads within 0.8 seconds and alpha1memorials.com.au loads within 1.28 seconds"

The way I have my site structured is as such, Alpha1memorials was the setup years ago by a webdev who I no longer employ. danieltaylorproducer is a new site and set up as a subdomain, by me. Alpha1memorials is in the current stages of being redesigned because the current landing page is just over 7MB, how they got a 7MB landing page to load in 1.28 seconds I wanna know because that is magic tbh.

When I brought this up and asked them to clarify how and why this discrepancy was present the replies stopped. And I was doing tests off Pingdom on and off through this and somehow magically my site started loading at 1.1 seconds. I didn't touch a single thing backend, no edits to my page, no settings in my Cloudflare changed. No settings in my Autoptimze plugin changed. This never before seen spike in speed just happened after I asked them about the speed discrepancies. The only thing I could credit this spike in speed was Cloudflare, but it's been running all this time without such an increase in speed.

I have no idea what DP is doing in the background, whether they are capping performance on subdomains, whether they are actively shifting resource allocation, whether they are piling on a bunch of sites into a server but I'm not a fan of it. I do appreciate the effort they've made to contact me and get things fixed but I still don't have a resolution or understanding of why the server was taking so long to respond. Or even the initial issues I was having with not being able to access my site(danieltaylorproducer), it would periodically go offline while I was working on it and I would not be able to access it or the other website. I wouldn't even be able to login to the WordPress backend of either site.

Both times on phones I would simply be given the line that "Oh I was working around then and that server didn't have any issues at that time."