My normal page load time per query monitor is 40-70 seconds. This makes it hard to do anything and its been like this for days. At first I thought it was bot traffic but with all bots blocked and under attack mode on its still like this.

I used site health troubleshooting (so everything turned off). With the theme reset and all plugins deactivated it still has a 10 second load time.

When I updated a plugin it seems to clear the processes and works again for 5-10 minutes at less than a second load time.

I downloaded w3 total cache and turned on object and page cacheing but that did nothing

Site health says critical issue

The REST API is one way that WordPress and other applications communicate with the server. For example, the block editor screen relies on the REST API to display and save your posts and pages. When testing the REST API, an error was encountered: REST API Endpoint: https://awesomefreebie.com/wp-json/wp/v2/types/post?context=edit
REST API Response: (http_request_failed) cURL error 28: Operation timed out after 10000 milliseconds with 0 bytes received

QM also shows a ton of duplicate and slow queries

It also shows in red an api call

GET

Certificate verification disabled (sslverify=false)

https://awesomefreebie.com/wp-json/wp/v2/types/post?context=edit

Error: cURL error 28: Operation timed out after 10000 milliseconds with 0 bytes received

WP_Site_Health->get_test_rest_availability()

wp-admin/includes/class-wp-site-health.php:2233

WP_Site_Health->perform_test()

wp-admin/includes/class-wp-site-health.php:204

WP_Site_Health->enqueue_scripts()

wp-admin/includes/class-wp-site-health.php:139

do_action('admin_enqueue_scripts')

wp-admin/admin-header.php:123

Host support said its due to high cpu usage so everything gets slowed down and processes can't run but didn't say how to fix it unless I paid for a full support plan.

How do I fix the above?

My performance with the pagespeedinsights scan is a 55 score

The site is super slow but I can't figure out why. I do have query monitor installed and its giving some of the above info but I have no idea what to do with it. Does anybody know?

My website crashes every other hour for an hour so down like 50% of the time UNLESS I have under attack mode on in Cloudflare which blocks bots. If I turn it off and the website crashes, it immediately comes back online a minute after turning it on.

I have about 1,000 real page views a day. However Cloudflare says for each day:

66,000 visitors

320,000 requests

7% Cached

6GB served

401MB Data Cached

Are these number normal? Is there a way to fix this without having under attack mode on 24/7? I feel like it annoys the viewers with that 5 second loading screen and also potentially effect google analytics.