Performance: query monitor shows 3 secs used by Pods

  • Resolved syost

    (@syost)


    2 years ago

    I’m working on performance for a website, using a test site hosted on AWS Lightsail. It’s a bitnami WordPress instance using PHP 8. Using the Query Monitor plugin, I saw a 4.5 second TTFB, and then using p3, I saw that the Pods plugin was using double the resources of any other plugin. So I deactivated it, and immediately saw Query Monitor show 1.5 seconds or less TTFB, and a noticeably faster user-level responsiveness to the site.
    Not knowing how my client was using Pods, I didn’t see any appreciable difference in the site’s page.

    So, two questions:
    1. Any idea why Pods is apparently using resources heavily?
    2. Is it possible that Pods can be deactivated at runtime and used only for site building, with no change in the site’s runtime behavior?

    Other details:
    I’m currently not using any caching. The only performance-specific plugin I’m using is Smush, which I added after this experiment.
    All other plugins are up to date, and I’m on WP 6.1.

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  • Plugin Author Jory Hogeveen

    (@keraweb)

    Hi @syost

    1. Any idea why Pods is apparently using resources heavily?

    Before we can say anything about this we’ll need more info on what Pods was used for.
    3s is a lot and wouldn’t be happening unless Pods was used extensively.

    Please share some more info!

    2. Is it possible that Pods can be deactivated at runtime and used only for site building, with no change in the site’s runtime behavior?

    No, you have some settings in Pods > Settings that could affect performance and you could move the created Pods to JSON instead of the database.
    Honestly I think this is a combination of Pods and some plugins that work together but P3 assigned the resource usage to Pods only. Note that P3 is a very, very.. very old plugin and one that I don’t consider 100% reliable, it only gives you an impression of where you might want to start debugging.

    Hope to hear from you as we’d like to sort this out!

    Cheers, Jory

    Thread Starter syost

    (@syost)

    Thanks for your quick response.
    After some further looking into it, I found that Pods was not the culprit. Actually, with Pods disabled, the portion of code that was causing the slowdown wasn’t being reached. So disabling Pods eliminated the problem, but also disable a chunk of code where the problem actually existed.

    Thread Starter syost

    (@syost)

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    Plugin Author Jory Hogeveen

    (@keraweb)

    Hi @syost

    Thanks for letting is know and good to hear you’ve found the issue!

    Cheers, Jory

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