Reply To: Connections making site slow

05/09/2018 at 10:59 am #461875
Steven Zahm
Keymaster

@ Jessica

Ok, you can reactivate. I wish I could share the results directly so you could see…

The directory page is in fact much faster with Connections deactivated. Load time is about 4 seconds But, I would expect that.

The events page is about 1.2 seconds faster when Connections is deactivated. That is a little higher than I typically see. This does vary. Sometime it loads quicker, sometimes it loads slower. But there seems to be a 1 second average.

It seems the web host is slower at processing pages with “larger” plugins seeing as the events page is not impacted much whether Connections is active or not.

Question. What version of PHP is running on the web host? You can find out by navigating to the Connections : Tools admin page and click the System Info tab. If it not PHP version 7.1, I very highly recommend that you ask the web host to upgrade that for you. WordPress and all plugins generally can receive 3-5x performance improvement. Many web host allow you to choose which version of PHP to run right within you control panel.

I would also recommend using WP Rocket. When combine with PHP 7.1, it can make you site substantially faster.

Hope this helps!