How to remove External File Requests & Scripts Choking my Site

  • Resolved rfia

    (@rfia)


    7 years, 6 months ago

    Hello WP Gurus,
    I am a designer and I’m decent at updating my site. However, I discovered from Pingdom that there is an external website that I used to upload files for weekly illustrations a year ago, and now it’s sending 96 file requests upon loading my page. I don’t know if that’s from the linked images. I just wiped all the old images and permanently deleted them from my media library, and removed all hyperlinks to them with no change.

    I added plugins: W3 Total Cache and I cleared all caches. Then I added WP Disable. (Both helped with upload speeds, but not the files.) I’m still seeing all these External CCS, Query Strings and File Requests from this *1 site*. I don’t know what they are or how to get rid of them.

    Please point me in the right direction as I have the world’s slowest site at 15 seconds with 191 requests.

    Many thanks!
    Rachel

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  • Moderator Steven Stern (sterndata)

    (@sterndata)

    Volunteer Forum Moderator

    Please provide a link to a page on your site where we can see this. Thanks.

    Thread Starter rfia

    (@rfia)

    Sure thing! I wasn’t sure if that was allowed.
    My site is https://www.fiasdesigns.com

    and the site sending 91 file requests is https://www.illustrationfriday.com and I had previously uploaded about 23 images. Some were from my desktop as submitting to their weekly drawing prompts.

    Thanks so much!

    Moderator Steven Stern (sterndata)

    (@sterndata)

    Volunteer Forum Moderator

    Some of that is coming from Google ads, some from the Discus plugin you’re using.

    This may be a plugin or theme conflict. Please attempt to disable all plugins, and use one of the default (Twenty*) themes. If the problem goes away, enable them one by one to identify the source of your troubles.

    Thread Starter rfia

    (@rfia)

    I can try the above. Do you know why an external site that I frequently visited would cause all the problems? (I used https://www.pingdom.com) Google Ads was only 2.9% and Illustraton Friday was over 2mb. I don’t have anything linked to them. It’s just so strange to me that it’s coming from one site.

    Thanks for taking a look.

    Thread Starter rfia

    (@rfia)

    I’m really at a loss. I”m trying all the W3 Total Cache Plugin settings from tutorials.

    Please note the the Disqus is not on my website. It’s the external site that I can’t seem to disconnect from https://www.illustrationfriday.com I contacted them to remove my posts but haven’t heard back. Half of the file requests are coming from them…not my site.

    Any clues as to how an external site can cause all these problems?

    Many thanks,

    Moderator Steven Stern (sterndata)

    (@sterndata)

    Volunteer Forum Moderator

    I don’t see it directly, but you’re bringing in a lot of content from etsy so maybe there’s some baggage from that.

    Thread Starter rfia

    (@rfia)

    Hi Steve,
    Thanks for being patient. I figured it out! In the Google AdSense, when there’s not an ad to be placed, it requires a mandatory URL in its place. Since my audience are artists, I added the external site https://www.illustrationfriday.com and it caused all their scripts to load on my page. I removed that link in the ad and now those file requests and scripts are gone! Thanks so much. Who knew!?!

    Rachel

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