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Hi….website is http://www.georgianlife.ca. The two event pages…listings and submission load really slow. http://www.georgianlife.ca/events/ (12.58 seconds) and http://www.georgianlife.ca/events/community/add (39.09 seconds). We’ve tested 3 other pages….homepage, photobooth and advertise and they are all loading in 3 seconds or less. Thank you in advance for your help.
Howdy Selblais,
I would love to help you with this. I enjoy helping folks with performance optimizations, it’s a bit of a passion of mine.
The first step I would do if I were you is install the plugin Query Monitor. From there if you could share the info from the Queries tab with me that would be extremely helpful. You can view this tab by visiting the slow page, then clicking the Query Monitor drop down > Queries. If you are interested in creating a new temporary admin account on your website, and sharing the user/pass with us here in Private Reply I would gladly examine this for you. It will give us some info on why this is slow, and we can take it from there.
Does that all make sense? Will that work for you? Please let me know.
Cheers!
– Brook
Hi Brook…thanks so much for your help and enthusiasm!! The plugin you suggested has been installed. Instead of sending you all the info that loaded, I hope it’s okay that I’m sending you the login info requested.
You are so welcome!
Thanks for the login. I had a look at your site. I noticed the following:
- All of the pages are loading pretty slow. The events page loaded in 12.2 seconds for me. Which was actually faster than every other page in my tests, except the Advertise one. The slowest was the Read an Issue page @ 26.7 seconds.
- Your database is actually quite fast! Usually this is the cause of slowness, but on your site it is only taking a fraction of a second. Technical talk: The other 11 – 26 seconds is going to be the CPU or perhaps the HD running slow.
In brief, I do not believe the calendar is causing the slowness at all. It might not even be the fault of any plugin on your site, but let’s double check that. Could you try testing if “conflict” is happening? To do this try temporarily deactivating all plugins on your site except Query Monitor, and switching themes to Twenty Fifteen. Now navigate to any of the pages on your site. Are they still taking 12 seconds to load? You will notice Query Monitor tells you how many seconds the page took to load in the WP Admin bar, so it can be an easy way to measure the time.
If the site is loading much faster, try reenabling plugins one at a time until it gets really slow again. When it gets slow, what plugin did you just enable?
Cheers!
– Brook
Hi…we had someone else respond to this ticket and they said they removed the calendar widget. The pages are loading so much faster now. Thanks for your help.
Thank you for getting back. That is good to know. We are searching through the Minicalendar widget right to see if there is any way to optimize it to be even faster. Until then though I am happy that leaving it disabled is an option, that could definitely help speed things up a bit.
Cheers!
– Brook
Hello again!
I just wanted to followup with you and let you know we were able to find some areas of the Minical where the performance could be improved. If everything I found pans out it will be much faster once the modifications are made!
Tentatively our improvements are scheduled for version 4.2 of the plugin suite. If you are interested in reenabling the widget at some point keep an eye on the changelogs for any mention of improving the Minicals speed or performance.
Thanks for bringing this to our attention! It’s been a few months since our last performance audit, so its great to catch this one early (before the next audit). Cheers!
– Brook
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