Thank you for contacting WP Engine today! I apologize for the issue, but I'm more than happy to help with your site speed.

We noticed that PHP execution time is taking 5.76 seconds, and is causing drag on your page load.
Here's a breakdown to help you identify and resolve the root cause of the issue:

PHP Core code took 0.87 seconds to execute
The 'pinspro' theme took 3.75 seconds to execute
8 plugins took 1.14 seconds to execute. The three slowest plugins:
'jetpack' took 0.832 seconds to execute
'wpengine-common' took 0.229 seconds to execute
'query-monitor' took 0.038 seconds to execute
So I looked into what the theme is trying to run, and came across its slowest query, which is taking about 8 times longer than the next slowest query:

SELECT t.*, tt.* FROM wp_terms AS t INNER JOIN wp_term_taxonomy AS tt ON t.term_id = tt.term_id WHERE tt.taxonomy IN ('post_tag') AND tt.count > 0 ORDER BY tt.count DESC LIMIT 6
Source:
/nas/wp/www/cluster-1095/nyc/wp-content/themes/pinspro/dms/includes/lib.theming.php:266

Backtrace:
require('wp-blog-header.php'), require_once('wp-includes/template-loader.php'), include('/themes/pinspro/index.php'), setup_pagelines_template, get_footer, locate_template, load_template, require_once('/themes/pinspro/footer.php'), pl_get_core_footer, require_once('/themes/pinspro/dms/footer.php'), pagelines_register_hook, do_action('pagelines_after_page'), call_user_func_array, pl_region_footer, pagelines_template_area, do_action('pagelines_footer'), call_user_func_array, PageLinesEditor->process_footer, PageLinesTemplateHandler->process_region, PageLinesTemplateHandler->render_section, PageLinesTemplateHandler->section_template_load, PLSectionArea->section_template, render_nested_sections, PageLinesTemplateHandler->render_section, PageLinesTemplateHandler->section_template_load, PinFooter->section_template, pl_popular_taxonomy, wp_list_categories, get_categories, get_terms