Wordfence slowing down initial website load or TTFB

  • Resolved Aleksandar

    (@jashimili)


    4 years ago

    I have noticed on every website where i have wordfence loaded, initial time to load a website is increased up to 3-5 seconds wait before website start loading sometimes even more, i am guessing this has to do with number of attacks, blocked ip’s and database informations wordfence holds.

    I have measured the times on websites on the same server.
    The DNS response is always the same 20-25ms

    Without wordpress: 30ms initial response, 400ms to load a website.
    WordPress website with wordfence disabled: 100ms initial response, 600ms to 1s to load a website.
    WordPress website with wordfence enabled: 3-5 seconds initial response, 6 to 7s to load a website.

    So the initial response is the time it takes server to process files and client waiting for the response.
    But is there a way to optimize it somehow so it can be a bit faster?

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  • Plugin Support WFAdam

    (@wfadam)

    Hello @jashimili and thanks for reaching out to us!

    Can you send a diagnostic report to wftest @ wordfence . com? You can find the link to do so at the top of the Wordfence Tools > Diagnostics page. Then click on “Send Report by Email”. Please add your forum username where indicated and respond here after you have sent it.

    Thanks!

    Thread Starter Aleksandar

    (@jashimili)

    Hello, thanks for support,

    I have sent it from 3 different websites and all of them are on different servers and providers.

    Plugin Support WFAdam

    (@wfadam)

    Thanks for sending those diagnostics!

    Any way you could get your hands on the PHP error logs for one of these sites as well?

    I don’t see anything standing out in the diagnostic to make me think there is a conflict. I want to look over the logs as well.

    Send them to wftest @ wordfence . com with subject line ” @jashimili Logs ” and let me know when you have sent them!

    Thanks!

    Thread Starter Aleksandar

    (@jashimili)

    Hi, i can access error logs on 2 of the websites and apache logs on one of them, i can’t access error logs on 3rd website.

    I have sent the logs on the mail.

    On one of the websites i disabled wordfence and selected option to delete database on deactivation, enabled it again, reduced the load to 2 seconds.

    I will monitor that website to see if load time will increase over some period.

    Plugin Support WFAdam

    (@wfadam)

    That was actually going to be something I suggested. Sometimes I have noticed with some versions of PHP that some of the WF tables will duplicate themeselves. It’s a flaw in the PHP version itself with table management.

    By clearing them, it should remove the issue. Monitor it and let me know if the issue comes back.

    Thanks again!

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