4.1.1 latest update: Dashboard Load S-l-o-w

Thanks @peterhenrichsen. At least I’m not the only one who’s noticed. Even a brand new install with no plug-ins and no posts or pages, isolated on its own server, is S-L-O-W. The front-end works fine, but the initial dashboard access, whether logged in or logging in fresh takes an eon’s forever, sometimes timing out. Once in, though, everything works pretty well with only the occasional hold-up. But, obviously, we’re stuck with it until a WordPress somebody recognizes it as an issue.

Thanks for your quick answer @cybercobre.

Yeah, you’re absolutely right. I don’t know what to do, than wait. Got totally mad on Hostgator. They just kept sending me links ‘How to optimize you’re WP’.

That’s not the issue. What can I optimize in WP, when I have a fresh installation, with no plugins and the standard theme.

Them: Well, you can use cache.

Me: I did use cache, but you told me to remove all plugins to get WP quicker, and cache is one of the plugins! ?? Arrhg. ??

Best wishes Peter

I don’t have the problem (I use Surpass Hosting) but I wonder if WP 4.1.1 is making additional or different calls to external servers that it didn’t previously?

Hmm..

Thanks, @markrh

Yeah, you’re right. It must do something different. And Hostgator supports thousands and thousands of WP-installations, so when I as a 4.1.1 admin has the problem at their server, there must be a lot of the same inquiries about the slow WP-Dashboard.

So I don’t get, why Hostagor just shrugs it off, and ain’t iterested at all in how the newest WP interact with their servers, but just says it’s WP fault.

Whos fault it is hasn’t solved anything in the world. So I like your point of view: it’s pretty interesting how WP 4.1.1 does something different when calling the servers, that the previous version didn’t.

That should also be interesting for Hostgator, because a lot of their customers uses WP. But of course, I hope the WP-developers who has designed the 4.1.1 will look into it as well.

Best regards Peter

@peterhenrichsen. I’m betting it’s not your hosting. I’m paying for VPS & PS with tons of CPU and RAM on both. Honestly, the best techs have no solution for this, not even the tech level 5 ones. It’s WordPress, and there’s no fix except to revert to an earlier build or hack the code…which I’m not willing to have done because then one is forever on one’s own.

@markrh : Lucky man!!

@cybercobre Thanks for the info about your VPS.

Sadly, I’m actually thinking of reverting to an earlier build, if it’s possible in an easy way.

I’ve found one bug now.

Google Chrome browser added up with the ‘Hola Better Internet’ app and the 4.1.1

When I removed the ‘Hola Better Internet’ app, WP 4.1.1 was quick again!

Why WP also was quick with the previous version AND HOLA AND Chrome, I can’t answer.

I just can say, that the cocktail: HOLA, Chrome and 4.1.1 works bad.

Best wishes Peter

@peterhenrichsen : What in the world is HOLA??

@peterhenrichsen : Also, it doesn’t work any faster in Mozilla FireFox or IE, either one, at least not for me. And I’ve tried via my tablet, and no deal there either. My husband tried using his highend smartphone (I have a dumb cellphone, thanks) and it was equally as slow.

You are not alone in this. One of my websites has been updated to 4.1.1 and is behaving exactly as you described. I’m no help but hope to see something helpful eventually posted. It’s killing me!

Thanks for the public support on this issue, @fadran. And I do know what you mean by it’s killing you. I wind up setting up a new render formula while it grinds away. That’s like 56k dial-up days or something.

Just to confirm that I have the same problem, with the backend being like the snail in Monsters University, but the front-end being nice and fast.

I have a VPS with Hostwinds who have looked into this and said that it is due to the current version of WordPress being used, as the resources are not being used up when running the site, so shouldn’t be slow.

Awesome report, @horroruk. The more of us who confirm this issue, especially those of us who run on PS and VPS with excellent resources available and have an inkling as to how to run through the test hoops, the more maybe somebody who is somebody up in the WP coderoom will start looking into it. Then we can be overjoyed and doing dances when, via stealth update, it gets miraculously fixed. ?? (Yes, I’m an optimist, because WP has always come through in the end.)

It looks to me like a javascript issue as the browser hangs rather than slow response time. For me it effects only the edit pages and not the entire admin panel.

Hoping for a quick fix.

Thanks for the input, @ijaas!