The Plugin Increases Site Load Time

Hi Rachit,

I’ll be more than happy to help track this down.

Could you go to Downloads > Tools > System Info and post the contents here for me?

### Begin System Info ###

— Site Info

Site URL: https://www.hacknovations.org
Home URL: https://www.hacknovations.org
Multisite: No

— Hosting Provider

Host: iPage

— User Browser

Platform: Windows
Browser Name: Firefox
Browser Version: 38.0
User Agent String: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.3; WOW
64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Fire
fox/38.0

— WordPress Configuration

Version: 4.2.2
Language: en_US
Permalink Structure: /%postname%/
Active Theme: Prose 1.5.2
Show On Front: posts
Remote Post: wp_remote_post() works
Table Prefix: Length: 8 Status: Acceptable
Admin AJAX: Accessible
WP_DEBUG: Disabled
Memory Limit: 40M
Registered Post Stati: publish, future, draft, pending, private, trash, auto-draft, inherit, refunded, failed, revoked, abandoned, active, inactive

— EDD Configuration

Version: 2.3.8
Upgraded From: 2.3.2
Test Mode: Disabled
Ajax: Enabled
Guest Checkout: Enabled
Symlinks: Disabled
Download Method: Direct
Currency Code: USD
Currency Position: before
Decimal Separator: .
Thousands Separator: ,
Upgrades Completed: upgrade_payment_taxes,upgrade_customer_payments_association

— EDD Page Configuration

Checkout: Valid
Checkout Page: https://www.hacknovations.org/hacknovations-checkout-page/
Success Page: https://www.hacknovations.org/transaction-successful-cheers/
Failure Page: https://www.hacknovations.org/transaction-failed/
Downloads Slug: /downloads

— EDD Gateway Configuration

Enabled Gateways: PayPal Standard
Default Gateway: PayPal Standard

— EDD Tax Configuration

Taxes: Disabled
Tax Rate: 0
Display On Checkout: Not Displayed
Prices Include Tax: No

— Must-Use Plugins

— WordPress Active Plugins

404 to Start: 1.5.9
Affiliate Link Manager: 2.1
Akismet: 3.1.1
Async JS and CSS: 1.7.13
CommentLuv: 2.94
Comment Redirect by Yoast: 1.1.3
Dequeue Font Awesome: 1.1
Easy Digital Downloads: 2.3.8
Floating Social Bar: 1.1.7
Force Regenerate Thumbnails: 2.0.5
Genesis Simple Edits: 2.1.1
Google Analytics by Yoast: 5.4.2
GZip Ninja Speed Compression: 1.2.3
JavaScript to Footer: 0.4.1
JP Widget Visibility: 3.5.3
Leverage Browser Caching Ninja: 2.1
MyCommentAuthors: 1.4
Rel Nofollow Checkbox: 1.1.4
Remove Widget Titles: 1.0
Rocket Lazy Load: 1.0.4
Simple Alexa Traffic Widget: 1.0
Simple Social Icons: 1.0.8
Speed Booster Pack: 2.7
Use Google Libraries: 1.6.2.1
W3 Total Cache: 0.9.4.1
Wordpress Ad Widget: 2.8.2
WordPress SEO: 2.1.1
WP-Optimize: 1.8.9.10
WP CleanFix: 4.0.0
WP Database Backup: 2.3
WPDBSpringClean: 1.6
WP Hide Post: 1.1.9
WP Media Cleaner: 2.4.2
WP Smush: 2.0.6.1
WP Super Minify: 1.3.1
wpXtreme: 1.5.2

— WordPress Inactive Plugins

— Webserver Configuration

PHP Version: 5.3.13
MySQL Version: 5.5.36
Webserver Info: Apache/2

— PHP Configuration

Safe Mode: Disabled
Memory Limit: 256M
Upload Max Size: 20M
Post Max Size: 20M
Upload Max Filesize: 20M
Time Limit: 120
Max Input Vars: 1000
Display Errors: On (1)

— PHP Extensions

cURL: Supported
fsockopen: Supported
SOAP Client: Not Installed
Suhosin: Not Installed

— Session Configuration

EDD Use Sessions: Enabled
Session: Enabled
Session Name: PHPSESSID
Cookie Path: /
Save Path: /home/users/web/b769/ipg.hackcom/cgi-bin/tmp
Use Cookies: On
Use Only Cookies: On

### End System Info ###

I am sorry to say I will move to another plugin if the speed remains affected for some days and the issue isn’t resolved.

I suspect the issue is due to a conflict between EDD and one of the caching or minification plugins you have installed.

Deactivate the following and then run another test:

WP Super Minify
WP-Optimize
Speed Booster
W3 Total Cache
Rocket Lazy Load

While each of those plugins is designed to improve performance, they are generally do not play well together and combining all of them together like you have will actually severely hurt the performance of your site, not improve it.

Please deactivate those plugins then run another test.

If that does not make a difference, please do this:

1. Deactivate every plugin, including EDD. Run a pingdom test and record the results.
2. Activate only EDD and run another pingdom test.
3. Compare the results from step 1 and 2. How are they?

I don’t have so much ample time to do all this stuff. All I Know is site was working well before and whatever happened, after plugin installation.
So, better I install it on another to site and sell themes there

Diagnosing issues like this take time, there’s no other way around it. In order to track it down, you have to take the time to test out each of your plugins for compatibility issues.

Easy Digital Downloads is used across more than 40,000 sites and cases like this are exceptionally rare. When it happens, it is nearly always due to a plugin conflict.

I would definitely recommend testing each of the “performance” plugins you have because I can almost guarantee you that combining all of those together is doing far more harm than good.

Testing for performance in this case is very simple: just deactivate the plugins I mentioned above and see what happens. That takes no more than a few minutes at most.

To be blunt, if you have time to open a ticket and express that you’re having problems, you have time to test deactivating a couple of plugins.

Thanks for your kind words.. I will do this tonight

Let me know what you find!