Did the latest update slow the plugin down?

I also felt that my site was slowed down. I set the time for refreshing the cache to a higher number (was 30 changed to 3000) and I think this helped.
But I had these short refresh-times in the old plugin and there they did not seem to cause noticible delays. So probably the caching could be optimized in this new version of the plug in.

The next and back buttons on it are WAY slower to change the month than the old version.

Indeed it is not a caching problem, but the process of retrieving the feed from Google seems to use a lot of server capacity.

When I had set the refreshing to short times I even often got server errors (pages on all sites on my server could not be loaded at all temporarily).

In the latest version (2.0.5) I am seeing a 10 second delay for any GCE display to appear on any page or sidebar regardless of whether anything else is on that page or sidebar. In addition, the Theme we are using has a built banner slider on the homepage. When we have the GCE on the homepage sidebar, that slider also takes 10 seconds to load. When GCE is not located on the homepage sidebar, the slider loads instantly, as it used to do with your older version. So the latest version of GCE is taking an unacceptably long time to load itself into any page or sidebar it is located on, and in addition is slowing down the loading of other material by a similar amount of time.

Thanks for the feedback everyone. We’ll look into getting the performance improved as soon as possible.

Thanks, Phil. I would like to add a few additional comments on this issue. After the initial 10 second loading delay time, any time that I navigate away from the page or sidebar that has the GCE display on it and then navigate back to that page or sidebar (without even leaving the website), a new 10 second delay occurs to reload the GCE display. So it is acting as if the cache is not working, and GCE is having to reload its cache every time any page or sidebar is re-accessed. In addition, any events on a page or sidebar which WordPress schedules to occur after GCE loading, is also delayed by that amount. This includes slideshow loadings and even clicking on any links on that page or sidebar. In my case, with the GCE display on the homepage sidebar, that means that the homepage slideshow (Theme generated) is locked out from loading for 10 seconds every time the homepage is loaded and in addition all links on the homepage are locked out from being used for those 10 seconds. And these things happen every time the homepage is accessed or re-accessed on a single visit to the website. This really makes the website appear handicapped, and I can’t see leaving it this way for very long.

Hello,

We just release version 2.0.6 which has some performance increase. Please let me know if you are still having issues.

Thanks!

Thanks!! Much, much better. What was recorded as 1.5 seconds load-time in P3 Plugin Profiler is now down to – get this – .05. This is great!! Thanks.

Glad to hear that ??

Yes, it is much improved. The 10 second “loading delay” that I referred to above, has now been reduced to 1 sec or less. Thanks