Comments on: Too Many Plugins Slow Down Your WordPress Blog

By: axe

axe — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 16:30:19 +0000

Hey Otobong,
With your hosting account being shut down the only solution is to contact the hosting company. They should be able to shed light on any particular plugin or script that was using too many resources. Call or email them for some help. Let us know what you find out about resource-intensive plugins, ok?

You’re right about not activating plugins that are unused. They’d be using valuable resources for no good reason. Once you get your blog set up and functioning the way you like, then you can delete the plugins you’re no longer using.
Good luck!

By: otobong

otobong — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 14:25:12 +0000

This is really helpful. Do you know am having the same problem. I just activate plugins anyhow and my account was suspended. Now I have learn a lesson not to activate unused plugins and useless plugins too. Thanks alot

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By: Atironta

Atironta — Sun, 24 Jul 2011 07:48:31 +0000

When I open a home page first time, it takes several seconds even there is nothing there. Consuquent calls take much less. I guess a browser caches JavaScript files. I also suspected the theme I used (Suffusion). It is flexible, but seems heavy. I found an article at http://wpmu.org/built-for-speed-11-free-and-fast-loading-wordpress-themes/, so I switched to the default theme and noticed that it works much faster now. The number of queries is down, 20-30 less. I used WordPress 3.1.3 and updated to 3.2.1. Subjectively, it also improved performance.
Still my concern is that the home page loads more than 10 JavaScript files, which makes it slow sometimes, depending on the network speed. It can give bad impression.

By: axe

axe — Sat, 23 Jul 2011 13:16:33 +0000

Hey Atironta,
Even though there are 67 queries I wonder how fast or slow your page loads in your browser? That is the main thing. What version of WP are you running?

By: Atironta

Atironta — Fri, 22 Jul 2011 14:00:02 +0000

Hi,

I have 3 plugins (e-commerce, classified, contact forms) on my local test PC. I get 67 queries for an empty page. I see that all JavaScript files from different plugins are included in every page even if they are not related to those plugins. Some files like thickbox.js are included several times for different versions. I wonder if there is a way to clean and properly organize this mess? I would appreciate you advice.

Thank you.

By: Stuart

Stuart — Mon, 07 Mar 2011 13:45:03 +0000

Thanks for your reply.

I used http://www.websiteoptimization.com/services/analyze/ to test (I’m not sure of the best tool to use to test?)

Level 1 (homepage) 35 queries gave the following results:

Connection Rate / Download Time
56K / 28.52 seconds
ISDN 128K / 9.43 seconds
T1 1.44Mbps / 1.73 seconds

Level 2 page – 61 queries gave the following results:

Connection Rate Download Time
56K / 35.37 seconds
ISDN 128K / 12.36 seconds
T1 1.44Mbps / 3.08 seconds

So I can see that the queries definitely increase the page load time. Given that the majority of my target audience will be on broadband (T1) I think homepage load time is reasonable but obviously level 2 pages are long at >3 seconds.

Given that most of my plugins are utilised would you recommend one of the wp cache plugins to increase speed?

P.S. websiteoptimization.com advises that the speed is due to the size of my script and css files.

Thanks in advance for any help/advice you can offer.

By: axe

axe — Sat, 05 Mar 2011 15:15:36 +0000

Hey Stuart,
Even though the number of queries seems high, I’m wondering if you’ve noticed a long page load time? About how long for the 2nd and 3rd level pages to fully load?
Let us know!

By: Stuart

Stuart — Fri, 04 Mar 2011 15:32:46 +0000

Thanks for the useful post and replies.

I have 35 queries on my home page and 70+ on level 2 and 3 pages.

I tried deactivating plugins one by one which made no difference to the number of queries – so based on some of these comments I imagine it could be the theme which was professionally designed for me?

I’d appreciate some advice if anyone can help please?

Thank you

By: axe

axe — Mon, 13 Dec 2010 13:16:34 +0000

@ngcity – I have one second to wait for a site to open, don’t you? I don’t think someone will surf away that quickly. The latest “standard” wait time that is bantered about is 4 seconds. It used to be 8 seconds. Even if your site had a lot more queries and it still opens in just a couple secs, your traffic should be ok and not wandering off too quickly.