Pages in WP Admin SLOW

10,000 pages that simply contain some text and an image of the movie poster

– 10,000 images of the movie poster! That’s a lot of images to load.

– Anyhow, see if info in these threads point you in right direction:

https://wordpress.stackexchange.com/questions/166727/how-can-i-speed-up-my-wp-admin-section/167014#167014

https://wordpress.stackexchange.com/questions/166727/how-can-i-speed-up-my-wp-admin-section

Provided the rest of the site loads fine, are there any plugins that specifically interact with the admin-side that could be causing the issue? Have your friend disable plugins to see if the slow behavior alleviates.

I do apologize but it’s a bit too technical for my understanding how moving the jQuery to the footer. I’m in cPanel but don’t really know where to begin.

are using any cache plugins? If not, look into some cache plugins, they should help speed up the site. For example:

https://www.ads-software.com/plugins/w3-total-cache/

https://www.ads-software.com/plugins/super-static-cache/

I’m not sure caching plugins will help the Admin Pages area.

Yeah I am using W3 Total Cache but it doesn’t do anything for me within the Admin area.

I know it’s a lot of pages/images to load, but if you click on any given page you’ll find it’s pretty basic information per page.

Do you have any plugins that impact the Admin side of the equation?

I have a review plugin that is utilized on every page. So, when creating a new page the plugin provides a section to add a review table to the page.

Is there any way of compressing the pages?

I have the cache plugin and Gzip already.

You reported slow behavior of the Admin Pages section, not the public side of your site.

Install the Query Monitor plugin and then load your Admin Pages screen. You should then click the Queries by Caller option to get an idea of what exactly is slowing down your Admin area.

Trying now…

My initial results show “93.77s 376.49MB 0.7672S 245Q”

Click on those results and send along the information found within for:

Queries by Caller
Queries by Component

Here’s the results:

Page generation time
93.7704
52.1% of 180s limit

Peak memory usage
385,525 kB
75.3% of 512,000 kB limit

Database query time
0.7672

Database queries
SELECT: 244
UPDATE: 1

A 93.77 second page generation time, 376.49MB of memory and 245 queries. Seems high…

Queries by Caller
Caller SELECT

update_meta_cache() 51 0.4381
WP_Query->get_posts() 51 0.1081
get_pages() 1 0.0853
wp_enqueue_media() 3 0.0605
wp_get_object_terms() 99 0.0447
WP_List_Table->months_dropdown() 1 0.0136
wp_count_posts() 1 0.0068
get_option() 25 0.0040
WP_User_Query->query() 2 0.0039
wp_load_alloptions() 1 0.0006
delete_option() 6 0.0006
get_page_by_path() 1 0.0005
WP_User::get_data_by() 1 0.0002
update_option() 1 0.0002
wp_count_comments() 1 0.0001
244 1 0.7672