Site slowed down after updating

  • Resolved islp

    (@islp)


    6 years, 10 months ago

    Hi, I found my website TTFB really high after the installation of the most recent Wordfence version. I tried uninstalling and re-installing the plugin, but without any improvement.

    TTFB with Wordfence disabled: about 320 ms;
    TTFB with Wordfence enabled: about 2 seconds;

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  • YES! Ours too. We had to turn wordfence off to get the site to load in a reasonable timeframe. Ours kept getting stuck on a.vimeo.cdn…

    Thread Starter islp

    (@islp)

    @novaumc: the crazy thing is we had a fight with the hosting provider, we initially didn’t suspect it could be a WF-related issue

    We started with our host too because WF was the ONE plugin we didn’t deactivate when checking for a plugin conflict. Crazy times. Hopefully the next update will remedy?!!

    Thread Starter islp

    (@islp)

    @novaumc: so we hope, because, aside from the fact that we cache lots of resources, the first load is really slow (and the server is very near…)

    Had the same issue … was able to resolve it by turning off Enable live traffic logging.

    Helped me

    Thread Starter islp

    (@islp)

    @uzmas: I forgot to mention that my live traffic is ALWAYS turned off

    Hi guys!
    Sorry to hear you are having this issue. Are any of you using CloudFlare’s “rocket loader”? We suspect there may currently be a conflict between that and the Wordfence function that checks for human/bots. We’ll be addressing the issue in our next release but for now you could try turning the “rocket loader” off and see if that helps. Turning Live Traffic off (and clearing cache if you are using any cache plugins) should have the same effect.

    Thread Starter islp

    (@islp)

    @wfasa: I’m not using CloudFlare at all, live traffic is off by default, I don’t use any caching plugin. I uninstalled WF, then installed it again and now I’m in WAF learning mode: if, after this week, it doesn’t work like before, I must disable it and search for another solution, these TTFB timings are not acceptable

    Hi @islp!
    Sorry to hear that. I ran some tests (using https://www.webpagetest.org/) and I was not able to replicate any significant TTFB impact. On average I got 0.1s TTFB increase when Wordfence was activated.

    If reinstalling helped I’m wondering if there could have been some garbage in your database tables. This could be due to the database user not having truncate permissions for example, resulting in some tables growing infinitely.

    Another thing to look at would be to make sure WordPress cron is running as it should. Otherwise regular cleanup of the database will not be performed by WordPress itself or any plugins. You would be able to tell if there is a problem with wp-cron by looking at the Wordfence Diagnostics page in the Cron section. If there are Cron jobs listed there that have a date in the past (older than current date) this would indicate Cron jobs are not executing as they should.

    Again, sorry for your troubles islp. I hope you are able to find a solution.

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