Plugin performance impact

[Riccardo]

I am investigating performance issues in my WP install, spotting ill behaved plugins, and I have discovered that although in some pages there are no references to the calendar, the plugin will require some resources.
I am attaching a screenshot of stats run on an empty page (only theme’s headers and footer) and the calendar plugins seems to be busy compared to others although there’s no data in the page.
Of course there are other plugins impacting a lot page load time, however I am trying to fine tune also the “small contenders”!

See here

Maybe there’s a way to improve performance?

Thanks

[Nico]

Hi there Riccardo,

Thanks for reaching out to us! Interesting question here…

Can you please send a screenshot with the items the-events-calendar and events-calendar-pro expanded so I can see what’s loading for our plugins?

Not sure if there’s a way to minimize this footprint but we can give it a try,
Best,
Nico

[Riccardo]

Sure. Attached here

[Nico]

Thanks for sending that over! I’ve shared this with one of our developers, his opinion is that this might be optimized but that won’t be easy at all. What he suggests can do a difference is to use a front-end caching engine so all this operations / set-up is not done in every page load.

Does this sound like something you could implement?

Best,
Nico

[Riccardo]

I will definitely use a caching plugin.
In the meanwhile it would be good if the Events Calendar plugin will issue less possible calls on pages not containing any reference to the calendar

[Nico]

Thanks for the follow-up Riccardo 🙂

We actually have a ticket to kill front-end request on non calendar pages, I guess this will bring improvements to this area as well. I’m linking this thread with the bug report and bumping the ticket priority!

Do you think we are good to close the ticket?

Best,
Nico

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[Geoff]

Hey Riccardo,

We wanted to follow-up to let you know that we were able to patch this up in The Events Calendar and Events Calendar PRO 4.2.2, which is now available to download and install if you haven’t done so already.

Please do be sure to check out our release notes for a full overview of what’s new in the release and feel free to let us know if you run into this or any other issues after the update.

Thanks so much for your patience while we worked on this!

Cheers,
Geoff

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