Slowing down site

Hi, i did a test on localhost and didn’t see any abnormal result https://take.ms/fdRoa but a conflict might exists. Are you using core only?Is the javascript loading slowly?

Hi Nicola – thanks for getting back to me. The site has quite a few plugins so I’m assuming its some sort of conflict. That being said, I’ve since increased the PHP memory limit through the server (to an abnormally high number of 256MB) and things are moving along a lot better… so it may be that. Out of interest I also switched from fastCGI to running PHP as an Apache mod and this significantly improved loading speeds, but I was getting an outwardly facing error from another plugin (ninja forms) so I had to switch back.

We’re soon moving from a VPS that we’re maintaining ourselves to WordPress specific hosting from a WordPress expert, so I’m also pinning some hopes on server configurations helping out (and if not, the expertise of our new hosts to pinpoint exactly what is happening)

I can’t unfortunately give out the address or credentials or anything, given the nature of the site.

Thanks again

John

Hi John,

if you can try to pinpoint down the problem to a single plugin we would be happy to investigate. Maybe try deactivating plugins one by one and see when you catch the one that conflicts. Since version 2.0 we got much better at not using too much memory especially when our plugin does nothing, which was a big problem with 1.x, since it wasted 40MB on every request.
But we have conflicts sometimes, we had a big one with Visual composer and it was a big memory leak

I’m seeing slow load times on my site as well – https://www.georgetowncollege.edu. A load analysis shows each of the widgets (looks like the JS but I could be wrong) is taking 1+ second to load.

Hi,

do you mean that javascript is loading slowly?Or are you using javascript widgets on the side?

I’m using the embed script produced by the plugin. If you load the link above using Firebug or Chrome’s Network tab under Developer Tools you’ll see each script takes over a second to load.

You should use that script only to embed in a different site.
On WordPress you should use WordPress widget

Ah, thanks for pointing that out. That fixed the problem.

marking this as fixed