Not as great as advertised

  • Resolved Keith

    (@keithkhl)


    8 months, 3 weeks ago

    This is more a review than a Q/A posting.

    When I first saw the discussion in 6.4 development that WP dev team finally catches the fact that foreign language WP is way slower than English version, I had some level of hope. Then, among many options to deal with it, when conversion from .mo to .php was proposed, I really hoped that it would change my websites’ performance.

    I’ve used Performant Translations for about 3 months, before/after WP 6.4 release.

    This week, due to debugging issues, I changed my website’s language to English. I can feel that everything got sped up at least 20%, and sometimes a lot more than that. When it was in non-English version, for one of the subsites that has over 100MB post and post_meta tables, respectively, admin’s post list loading took me about 5 seconds, after Redis Object Cache. After changing the site language to English, it takes less than 4 seconds, mostly around 3 seconds. Lighter subsites are more dramatic. For subsites that required 3~4 seconds now need only 2 seconds.

    I am glad that Performant Translations’ key function will be incorporated to coming WP 6.5 in late March 2024, but if there isn’t any significant change of WP’s multi-language structure, most non-English websites should still suffer from translation related dragging issues.

    Though the idea to change .mo to .php is great, the experience was not really material. I will stick to English version WP for all my services from now on, until I hear otherwise.

    I speak multiple languages and most non-English website owners usually do not regards WP as a reasonable alternative, if they have local language based solution. After months of testing on my sites, I can now confirm that they are right and WP is still for English speakers. Not sure how long it will take to say otherwise, but I am now certain that .mo to .php is not a solution.

    The reason I still post this one to Q/A forum is because there might be a configuration setting that I have missed. I thought it is just install, activate, and forget type plugin. Plz let me know if it is not.

    • This topic was modified 8 months, 3 weeks ago by Keith.
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  • Thread Starter Keith

    (@keithkhl)

    @swisspidy

    After recent update in PHP, all aforementioned issues are disappeared. My non-English webpage loading is finally as fast as English pages on the same network.

    It must have been unknown PHP version issue, or your hard work on update may have attributed! Thx for this great work!

    Plugin Author Pascal Birchler

    (@swissspidy)

    That’s amazing to hear! You know, I was pulling my hair out trying to reproduce the issue as I couldn’t explain why this would happen. So glad that the issues are now gone and you finally get to experience the promised speed improvements! I also appreciate you taking the time to let me know about it.

    Thread Starter Keith

    (@keithkhl)

    @swisspidy

    I may have offended you, and I am sorry for that. I really didn’t expect PHP update can solve the issue.

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