Nice Interface, Heavy Weight

  • Checking Google’s site checker for speed, most of the warnings I was given for things dragging down the site were from Hummingbird. Not sure that’s an improvement.

    Update: Caused more problems than it cured. Bye.

    • This topic was modified 4 years, 6 months ago by anoleimaging.
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  • Plugin Support Amin – WPMU DEV Support

    (@wpmudev-support2)

    Hello @anoleimaging ,

    I’m sorry to hear about this issue.

    Do you maybe have a screenshot or exact message from the page speed test results?
    My suspicion is that Google page speed test was showing that there are Render Blocking Resouces and it showed files that Hummingbird compressed in Asset Optimization.
    In this case, you would need to switch to the Advanced Mode and start moving those files to the Footer (CSS) and also defer for the JS files.
    https://premium.wpmudev.org/docs/wpmu-dev-plugins/hummingbird/#advanced-mode

    kind regards,
    Kasia

    Thread Starter anoleimaging

    (@anoleimaging)

    Discovered one of the problems: It doesn’t play well with The Event Calendar. Took the site footprint from less than 500mb to 1gig!

    Plugin Support Williams – WPMU DEV Support

    (@wpmudev-support8)

    Hello @anoleimaging

    Thank you for response but I’m not quite sure what do you mean by “took the site footprint from less than 500mb to 1 gig”. Are you referring to database size or size of files on server?

    Does the change happen depending on whether Hummingbird is installed/active (or some of it’s option) or if The Event Calendar is installed/active?

    I’d love to assist you further but I’m slightly confused so could you elaborate a bit more on this, please?

    Best regards,
    Adam

    Thread Starter anoleimaging

    (@anoleimaging)

    I mean the files on the server. I deleted a folder from Hummingbird’s files (wphb-cache) for The Event Calendar and watched the account go from (over its capacity at) about 1g down to normal of less than 500mb.

    Plugin Support Dimitris – WPMU DEV Support

    (@wpmudev-support6)

    Hello @anoleimaging

    That’s normal, as long as you have a lot of pages that are getting cached. Keep in mind that each page (post type to be exact) generates a static HTML file on the server, so next time it’s requested, the cached copy is being served instead.
    I wonder though, how many posts/pages do you have in your site? Number of plugins?

    Thank you,
    Dimitris

    Thread Starter anoleimaging

    (@anoleimaging)

    There aren’t that many pages and not even that many event entries in the Event Calendar.

    I think it’s caching dates that have no events. My theory is that it’s somehow saving each calendar date as a page, regardless of content. I don’t know if that’s a flaw of Hummingbird or the Calendar plugin, but I’ve turned off caching for events on the site and it seems to keep the disk space within reason.

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