Dead slow site

Hi,
I wish I had a look at the site. There are 16 plugins? I avoid using too many plugins unless there is a die situation as it badly impact performance.

Though hard to balance the site speed and design sometimes with higher page heights or blogs with images but business sites could be well optimized with a few things in mind. I mainly focus on

Smaller image sizes
Low plugin usage
Pptimized css and javascript
..and of course good web host

Marshall

Hi Marshall,

If we disable the Nextgen Gallery the site runs just fine but almost unusable with it running.

https://www.northbondisurfclub.com is the site and we currently have the plugin disabled to try and fix the issue.

Is that an old version of the plugin?
May be you can try to fix it by deleting the plugin and reinstalled it afresh or used another plugin…

@marshall – Thanks for offering the tips.

@gannear@gadesa.biz – That is a huge disproportionate reading for NextGEN Gallery (yes, we are aware of some performance issues but that is way outside what we have ever seen) and although I do not see anything in particular in those details it is still possible something could be interfering with NextGEN Gallery causing it to take that much time to load.

– Cais.

We have disabled all other plugins and still get this issue. How can we test to find the reason?

@gannear@gadesa.biz – Have you also checked if you use a default WordPress twenty series theme as well?

As it is, I just ran a P3 test on one of my test sites, with this basic result: https://screencast.com/t/dQfDNE1SZ

Although NextGEN Gallery is still using the lion’s share of the pie, it also loaded at 1.3675 seconds … and I have several plugins actively in use on that test site as well, not just NextGEN (and Jetpack).

– Cais.

We have had some success after removing 40,000 lines from the database after using the advice in this post:

Ever since 2.x was released this has been a MAJOR issue. It kills my site. Literally kills it so pages time out and you can’t access it to the point where you can’t even reach the WP admin. The problem is simple – the plugin dumps thousands of trash entries into the wp_options table in your MySQL database slowing it to a crawl or killing it completely.
My fix for this is to strip these out manually, but it’s at the stage where I have to do this every day just to keep the site running. For those who want to try this, run this SQL query against your database:
DELETE FROM wp_options WHERE option_name LIKE ‘_transient_%’ OR option_name LIKE ‘displayed_gallery_%’ OR option_name LIKE ‘displayed_galleries_%’OR option_name LIKE ‘_site_transient_%’