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  • 05/20/2014 at 7:05 pm #291725
    Society of Gilders
    Participant

    Over the last few days our web host has initiated CPU Throttling due to a large use of resources on shared hosting. While evaluating performance issues I noted the Connections plugin takes 10 seconds to load.

    Any suggestions or insights? (I’m not ruling out throttling to force an upgrade to a dedicated server. <grin>)

    http://societyofgilders.org

    05/20/2014 at 8:52 pm #291730
    Steven Zahm
    Keymaster

    @ Kathy

    I browsed around your site, it seems that many pages, hit or miss, have very high load times. Connections will only affect the page on which the [connections] shortcode was added.

    I see you have at least cMap and Form. I can tell from the minified CSS and JS. I found the page with Form, but not cMap. Can you please share a direct link to that page?

    As for the load time for the Connections page, how many entries do you have on it? I recommend no more than the 20 that cMap defaults to as a max. WordPress limits posts per page to 10, one blog pages, in order to help prevent long load times. Having to many posts or Connections entries on a single page will cause many database queries. So this really is not a issue limited to Connections.

    I also see that you are using W3TC, great plugin, I use it too on this site. One thing to keep in mind, it can create very high server loads when not properly configured for your webhost. I highly recommend turning off most options and enabling them one at a time doing after doing page load time analysis to determine if the feature is providing a benefit or not.

    I hope that helps!

    05/22/2014 at 9:22 am #291835
    Kathy
    Guest

    There are 300 entries in Connections, however only 3 are marked a Public on the directory test page: http://www.societyofgilders.org/live/directory-test/

    The notes below are the report from running the P3 Plugin Performance plugin prior to installing W3 Total Cache.

    ===========================================
    Report date: 05/20/2014
    Theme name: Twenty Twelve
    Pages browsed: 3
    Avg. load time: 9.6435 sec
    Number of plugins: 27
    Plugin impact: 52.53% of load time
    Avg. plugin time: 5.0655 sec
    Avg. core time: 0.6838 sec
    Avg. theme time: 0.6808 sec
    Avg. mem usage: 75.83 MB
    Avg. ticks: 39,810
    Avg. db queries : 74.67
    Margin of error : 3.2133 sec

    Plugin list:
    ===========================================
    P3 (Plugin Performance Profiler) – 0.0123 sec – 0.24%
    Gravity Forms – 0.1621 sec – 3.20%
    Akismet – 0.0202 sec – 0.40%
    BackWPup – 0.3304 sec – 6.52%
    Cimy Swift Smtp – 0.0072 sec – 0.14%
    Connections Cmap – 0.0009 sec – 0.02%
    Connections Csv – 0.0140 sec – 0.28%
    Connections Form – 0.0041 sec – 0.08%
    Connections Link – 0.0024 sec – 0.05%
    Connections – 2.4365 sec – 48.10%
    Envira Gallery – Gallery Themes Addon – 0.0013 sec – 0.03%
    Envira Gallery – 0.1523 sec – 3.01%
    Envira Gallery – Protection Addon – 0.0010 sec – 0.02%
    Envira Gallery – Supersize Addon – 0.0051 sec – 0.10%
    Events Manager – 0.3848 sec – 7.60%
    Expire Users – 0.0206 sec – 0.41%
    Gravityformsmailchimp – 0.0097 sec – 0.19%
    Gravityformspaypal – 0.0024 sec – 0.05%
    Jetpack by WordPress.com – 0.6359 sec – 12.55%
    MailChimp for WordPress Lite – 0.0112 sec – 0.22%
    s2Member Framework – 0.6579 sec – 12.99%
    S2member Pro – 0.0268 sec – 0.53%
    Si Captcha For WordPress – 0.0059 sec – 0.12%
    Social Media Widget – 0.0082 sec – 0.16%
    TinyMCE Advanced – 0.0007 sec – 0.01%
    Unattach – 0.0401 sec – 0.79%
    Wordpress Ecommerce – 0.1114 sec – 2.20%

    05/22/2014 at 1:51 pm #291871
    Steven Zahm
    Keymaster

    @ Kathy

    In regards to P3 please see this support forum thread which includes comments from the plugin developer about its accuracy. I suggest looking at using the Query Monitor plugin. You’ll notice on non-Connections pages, the impact from Connections is next to none. On a Connections Page you will see an increase in database queries, those are necessary and only affect the page load time which the [connections] shortcode exists.

    If you want to really did deep in monitoring your sites performance, I recommend New Relic, W3TC has built in integration for it. If you’re on a shared host, it will be unlikely that you’ll be able to use New Relic. I’ve only recently installed this myself and still working to understand all the data it captures.

    I hope that helps.

    • This reply was modified 12 years, 2 months ago by Steven Zahm. Reason: Add missing support forum link
    05/22/2014 at 3:47 pm #291911
    Kathy
    Guest

    Thank you! Given that the site was not using a lot of resources a week ago, I am almost convinced the CPU Throttling by the web host is a sales ploy for upgrades.

    You can mark this issue resolved.

    05/22/2014 at 4:04 pm #291913
    Steven Zahm
    Keymaster

    @ Kathy

    Will do … and, I added the missing link to my previous reply.

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