• Resolved Steph

    (@scarydakis)


    Hi,

    Firsty thanks for a great plugin. The functionality is fantastic and a life saver. However I’m experiencing a 500% increase in load times for a custom loop over the Elementor Post widget ‘cards’ skin for the same query. I’m querying a custom post type with some ACF custom fields in the loop.

    In my testing I made a new loop with just the post title being output and the result is the same. So I don’t think it’s because of the custom fields in the query.

    I can’t share the website here as it’s in development but am more than happy to share via PM if you need to.

    Thanks,
    Steph.

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  • Plugin Author dudaster

    (@dudaster)

    It is a lot slower than classic skin. Imagine that Elementor generates the Loop Template for each item. I strongly recommend to keep the skin light if you have many posts per page and/or use a caching plugin.

    Thread Starter Steph

    (@scarydakis)

    I haven’t looked into your plugins architecture but I get that it basically grabs a template for every item. It’s just really slow. Unfortunately it’s unusably slow to be honest.

    Thanks again.

    The same here? Is there no way to optimize the performance?
    When i use the Default WordPress Card it works perfect…
    when i use a custom template it takes tooooo much time…

    @scarydakis did you find a better solutions or a workaround?

    • This reply was modified 4 years, 5 months ago by turanligil.
    • This reply was modified 4 years, 5 months ago by turanligil.
    Plugin Author dudaster

    (@dudaster)

    The speed depends of a lot of factors:
    – Server power;
    – The amount of info you put inside a Loop Template;
    – The amount of posts shown per page (you can use load more pagination with a fewer number of posts per page)
    – Try not to use image backround if the images are to big because it uses the full size image.(Work in progress to solve this issue)
    – Use a cache plugin.

    Remember This plugin offers the posibility to create a skin. So also be sure it is not ECS’s fault. The issue can be from the query perspective like a search plugin and lots of posts to search trough.

    I’m using ele custom skin with success even on woocommerce with lots of products. But because it is flexible you have the power to make it load faster or slow.

    Thread Starter Steph

    (@scarydakis)

    @turanligil No I didn’t. I think the speed issue is related to what @dudaster mentioned,

    Elementor generates the Loop Template for each item

    In the situation I saw a big performance issue (around 2.5 seconds extra load time which tripled the load time) the client wanted all 42 posts shown. As I decrease the amount of posts shown the performance increases. For example showing 3 posts is much faster than 42.

    • This reply was modified 4 years, 5 months ago by Steph.
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