Wordfence is slowing the loading of my website by more than 30 seconds

  • After various adjustments including slideshow picture size and optimizing the mySQL database, the only thing that made a difference in the load speed was disabling Wordfence.

    I even tried reinstalling a fresh copy of Wordfence.

    I tried turning off the Real Time Firewall.

    All changes made no improvement except totally disabling Wordfence.

    How can I tell my client to upgrade to the Premium when I am not sure the load time will still be way too slow?

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  • Hi artzcj,
    Do you mean the loading speed of your website front-end? I wonder what was the result for running services like “Google PageSpeed” and “Pingdom“?

    Also, using “Query Monitor” plugin and keep watching for slow database queries would be helpful in this case.

    Let me know how it goes,
    Thanks.

    Thread Starter artzcj

    (@artzcj)

    Google Page Speed results

    Timeout while fetching the main resource. Ensure that the page loads in a browser and try again.
    ……………
    Query Monitor results

    SELECT name, val
    FROM wp_wfConfig
    WHERE autoload = ‘yes’
    wfConfig::loadAllOptions()
    wp-content/plugins/wordfence/lib/wfConfig.php:158
    + Plugin: wordfence 147 23.5520 THAT IS 23 seconds

    Google Page Speed results for the home page:

    DNS 61 ms
    Connect 7 ms
    Send 0 ms
    Wait 33.91 seconds
    Receive 22 ms

    I am going to install Gator Cache. As one of the suggestions was to cache.

    Thanks for the insightful tools. So it is Wordfence that is slowing us down. Any recommendations to speed up Wordfence?

    Thread Starter artzcj

    (@artzcj)

    https://sitecheck.sucuri.net results:

    Unable to properly scan your site. Unable to connect. (probably because it timed out).

    Thread Starter artzcj

    (@artzcj)

    Does anyone know how to speed up Wordfence? Or submit a ticket without paying more money?

    SELECT name, val
    FROM wp_wfConfig
    WHERE autoload = ‘yes’
    wfConfig::loadAllOptions()
    wp-content/plugins/wordfence/lib/wfConfig.php:158
    + Plugin: wordfence 147 23.5520 THAT IS 23 seconds for Wordfence to load

    Thread Starter artzcj

    (@artzcj)

    Although I have been using Wordfence for years on various sites, I have been forced to use a different plugin – at least until someone can help me.

    Hi artzcj,
    This is not normal to take 23 seconds for this call from the database, on one of my sites it only needs 0.1 ms, so I suggest checking your database error log for any more information related to this slow query.

    Also, you could enable “Delete Wordfence tables and data on deactivation” option from (Wordfence > Options) and deactivate/re-activate the plugin, by doing this you should know that you will lose all the current plugin configuration and it will be as if the plugin has been activated on your website for the first time.

    Thanks.

    Thread Starter artzcj

    (@artzcj)

    How do I check the database error log?

    It depends on your server configuration, what kind of database management system you are using, etc…
    So it’s better to get in contact with your web host to get a solid answer for this question.

    Did you try my suggestion in the last reply?

    Thanks.

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