Widget : big slow down in my pages display

since few weeks

Are you up to rev? 5.3.8 is current. A problem like this has been fixed in 5.3.7.

Yes, I am. I have checked again: my current version is 5.3.8 as well.

The only thing i can think of is that the number of photos in the album is very high ( > 100 ? ) or you selected –all– albums in the widget activation screen.

If this is not the case and you want me to investigate on this, re-activate the widget and tick the box in Photo Albums -> Settings admin page Table IX-A3: Allow WPPA+ Debugging. Then i can see more if you supply me a link to a page with the widget.

I have checked my albums as you recommended and you were right : one of my album exceeded the number of photos (166!). So I have create a new album and move half of them on it. And now, it looks like there is no slow down anymore orit is less slow than before.

Anyway, I have re-activated the slideshow widget sidebar and I’ve allowed WPPA+Debugging mode so you can check it also by yourself: https://tryandplay.com/critique-cine-x-men-days-of-future-past/

Great thanks Jacob !

I did some tests and wppa+ takes less than 80 milliseconds at the server side, and 26 kb of page load. This should be no problem.

Try to keep the number of slides approx where it is now ( 32 ).

You may untick the debug box. People can see too much maybe…

Hi Jacob,

Sorry to disturb you this time again but it seems my loading page slow down is appearing again since few days. And it is not only relative to the slide-sidebar widget but the whole plugin I guess.

I haven’t done any image upload since last time, and even delete one album with 90 pictures. Even afeter that, it makes my entire WP blog very slow to refresh.

Is it possible to check this problem ? I’ve allowed WPPA+Debugging mode like you told me last time. You can check on the same link I gave you: https://tryandplay.com/critique-cine-x-men-days-of-future-past/

Great thanks !

I did several tests on your site. WPPA+ took 0.075 sec server time. This value does not change noticably.

The total load time: first time ( discarding browser cache ): 12 to 16 seconds, a reload ( using browser cached js files and css files ) most of time approx 2.5 sec, sometimes up to 15 sec

You have very many plugins active:

[WPPA+ dbg msg: akismet/akismet.php]
[WPPA+ dbg msg: author-info-widget/wp-plugin-widget-author-info.php]
[WPPA+ dbg msg: category-icons/category_icons.php]
[WPPA+ dbg msg: category-posts/cat-posts.php]
[WPPA+ dbg msg: contact-form-7/wp-contact-form-7.php]
[WPPA+ dbg msg: dynamic-content-gallery-plugin/dynamic-gallery-plugin.php]
[WPPA+ dbg msg: feed-nu/feed-nu.php]
[WPPA+ dbg msg: feedburner_feedsmith_plugin_2.3/FeedBurner_FeedSmith_Plugin.php]
[WPPA+ dbg msg: google-analyticator/google-analyticator.php]
[WPPA+ dbg msg: google-news-sitemap/apgnsm.php]
[WPPA+ dbg msg: google/plusone.php]
[WPPA+ dbg msg: juiz-social-post-sharer/juiz-social-post-sharer.php]
[WPPA+ dbg msg: limit-login-attempts/limit-login-attempts.php]
[WPPA+ dbg msg: post-author/post_author.php]
[WPPA+ dbg msg: ratings-shorttags/ratings-shorttags.php]
[WPPA+ dbg msg: recent-posts-slider/recent-posts-slider.php]
[WPPA+ dbg msg: sem-dofollow/sem-dofollow.php]
[WPPA+ dbg msg: seo-image/seo-friendly-images.php]
[WPPA+ dbg msg: simply-instagram/simply-instagram.php]
[WPPA+ dbg msg: social/social.php]
[WPPA+ dbg msg: special-recent-posts/special-recent-posts.php]
[WPPA+ dbg msg: tantan-flickr/flickr.php]
[WPPA+ dbg msg: tubepress/tubepress.php]
[WPPA+ dbg msg: twitter-tools/twitter-tools.php]
[WPPA+ dbg msg: wordpress-importer/wordpress-importer.php]
[WPPA+ dbg msg: wordpress-seo/wp-seo.php]
[WPPA+ dbg msg: wordpress-social-ring/wp-social-ring.php]
[WPPA+ dbg msg: wp-paginate/wp-paginate.php]
[WPPA+ dbg msg: wp-photo-album-plus/wppa.php]
[WPPA+ dbg msg: wptouch-pro/wptouch-pro.php]
[WPPA+ dbg msg: yet-another-related-posts-plugin/yarpp.php]

The load times of the individual files tend to very a lot ( 40 to 4500 msec ), but i did not notice that wppa+ gives a remarkable contribution to the total load time.

Maybe you should have a critical look if all your plugins are really needed.

Try tick the box in Photo Albums -> Settings admin page Table IV-A8: Defer javascript. This may improve loading the page a bit.

Dear Jacob,

Than k you for taking your time and help me to resolve my problem.
I have followed your advice and I have uninstalled few useless plugins. And it works now, it improves the refresh time a lot. I really owe you ! I have send you something to thank you for your great help. You really deserve for your work. See you !

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