How Many Connections from a WP Admin Browser Tab?

  • HKP

    (@hiskingdomprophecy)


    3 years, 5 months ago

    Hi Folks,

    I am suffering high server load averages and cannot yet pinpoint the cause(s).

    However, when a warning message is received, I always note that my IP has multiple connection established.

    Last night with 2x WP Admin browser tabs open – one for edit – one for the published post – I saw that the server was recording 12 established connections from me at that moment.

    I can’t find documentation on this as to what the norm is.

    Can you tell me, in Admin, with one WP edit tab open in a browser, how many connections may that make to the server?

    Regards and thanks,
    Angus

    • This topic was modified 3 years, 5 months ago by Jan Dembowski. Reason: Moved to Fixing WordPress, this is not an Everything else WordPress topic
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  • Topher

    (@topher1kenobe)

    The Gutenberg editor uses the REST API for many things, so it could potentially hit the server several times per second, each connection lasting a random amount of time. If a particular query is being slow it can take several or more seconds.

    Are you seeing it only when using Gutenberg, or all the time?

    Thread Starter HKP

    (@hiskingdomprophecy)

    @topher1kenobe

    Hi Topher,

    Thanks for that reply.

    I am a WP user and not a developer and my site has constantly high server load averages and our server free swap memory has been zero for months now.

    If I am working on Admin when I get a server warning message the Five Minutes Average >10, even with only 2x tabs open – one with the edit page and one on say the newly published post – I will find the “Connection counts” for my IP is 15.

    I use a VPS and have all rights to the server, but I lack the technical knowledge to interrogate the server for more information, and even with such diagnostic data, don’t have the skill set to interpret it ??

    The WP troubleshooting/ analysis/ monitoring plugins I can can find are not pointing to any issues as to which script is causing the issues, and I can’t find one to monitor the server as needed. I’m really not wanting to or capable of setting up a console for the server as my ignorance could kill the site ??

    Also, FYI, as we have no free memory ever and a fully loaded cpu all the time, all the monitoring plugins use a lot of resources and after a while, start to contribute to the site problems…

    So my questions was to try to get a handle on how much influence 1x edit page should have, as I think 7-8 server connections per active Admin tab, is not normal.

    I am working with the author of 1 plugin which probably causes or contributes to our situation, but they are struggling to find the source of the problem.

    I started this site in 2010 and WP was very simple then. Now I can barely cope with the issues that arise as a result of all the updates and the effects they have on legacy sites, as well as the wider eco-system of social media, phone screens etc. etc. ??

    But, we’ll keep going ??

    Thanks for your information. I’ll mull that over and see if I can get some insight as to where to look for our script error(s).

    Oh and finally, I use Classic Editor and Advanced Editor Tools and will never transition to Blocks… I just can’t get my mind around how they work and how to work with them. I use copy and paste and it is so simple and fast….

    I also manage several WordPress.com site for authors – just do the posting for them – and I’m almost to the point that it is just getting too hard to bypass Blocks there, and paste in code. It seems each time I go there, it’s getting harder and harder to find the code editor….

    Regards and thanks,
    Angus

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