WPP slowing down site? URL requests

  • Resolved sidelancer

    (@sidelancer)


    2 years, 11 months ago

    I have a 4gb ram 2 core server with Cloudways and 3 WordPress sites on it. All of them use WordPress popular posts but only one website is getting a lot of traffic recently (~300k pageviews/month).

    I’ve been having issues with high CPU usage on the server (frequently spiking up to 100%) and I contacted Cloudways about this. They said that “the server is going through a high load due to php-fpm requests that are generated when there’s high traffic on the site.”

    and linked me this screenshot. Most of the files here have WPP in the URL. Does this mean WPP is causing my website to be slow? What can I do about this?

    Thank you

    • This topic was modified 2 years, 11 months ago by sidelancer.
    • This topic was modified 2 years, 11 months ago by sidelancer.
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  • Plugin Author Hector Cabrera

    (@hcabrera)

    Hi @sidelancer,

    Does this mean WPP is causing my website to be slow?

    Not necessarily but it might be contributing to the problem. WordPress Popular Posts is a resource intensive plugin by nature after all. You should review all of the scripts / DB queries that are currently running on your websites to get a definitive answer.

    What can I do about this?

    I’d start here: Performance Guide – WordPress Popular Posts.

    • This reply was modified 2 years, 11 months ago by Hector Cabrera. Reason: Fixed typo
    Thread Starter sidelancer

    (@sidelancer)

    Thanks Hector I’ve been looking into the issue more and I don’t think it’s the plugin because I still have high CPU usage when I turn it off.

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