images outside uploads folder slowing down?

Are you using Jetpack’s Photon module, or another image CDN plugin?

thanks for reply, I’m using the autoptimize plugin without CDN …
Multisite w/ 4 languages … sometimes it seems that WP is searching for images in uploads first …

If you deactivate autoptimize, does that resolve the situation?

Hi guys;
Autoptimize does not do anything to images, so that would not really make sense (I’m the developer ?? ).

Now as far as “wordpress looking for images” is concerned, per the default .htaccess;

# BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
</IfModule>

# END WordPress
</IfModule>

and specifically the !-f line, requests for existing files (including images) are not handled by WordPress, but by your webserver (Apache, probably). Can you check if this is in your .htaccess as well (and that .htaccess does not contain any “funky” stuff for images)?

Next up I would check the image size of the images that seem to be slower. How big is it (are they), can you optimize them with https://optimizely.com/ (great tool)?

Last remark: in my experience it is not abnormal to see Apache serving a file slower on occasions, but it would be “on occasion” and it Would not always be the exact same file.

Conclusion:

could it be that image loading is much slower from outside /wp-content/uploads or it does not matter?

No, it will very probably not matter ??

Hope this helps,
frank

Hi James, now I have disabled all installed plugins in network settings and re-enabled each per site … the browser lang redirect was enabled to all network sites – seems page load is a little faster
Pagespeed results shows images bellow 0.8 but it shows admin-ajax.php w/ about 1.5 – 2s, I’m using kk Star Ratings which call admin-ajax.php
var bhittani_plugin_kksr_js = {"nonce":"d56ebe22d3","grs":true,"ajaxurl":"https:\/\/www.mydomain.tld\/wp-admin\/admin-ajax.php","func":"kksr_ajax"
<script type="application/ld+json">{ "@context": "https://schema.org", "@type": "WebSite", "url": ...

thank you guys, should I change something here?

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{SERVER_PORT} 80
RewriteRule (.*) https://%{HTTP_HOST}%{REQUEST_URI} [R=301,L]

RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ – [L]
# add a trailing slash to /wp-admin
RewriteRule ^([_0-9a-zA-Z-]+/)?wp-admin$ $1wp-admin/ [R=301,L]

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -f [OR]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -d
RewriteRule ^ – [L]
RewriteRule ^([_0-9a-zA-Z-]+/)?(wp-(content|admin|includes).*) $2 [L]
RewriteRule ^([_0-9a-zA-Z-]+/)?(.*\.php)$ $2 [L]
RewriteRule . index.php [L]

wp-admin has been protected w/ htaccess so there is a additional rule inside htaccess:

<Files admin-ajax.php>
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
Satisfy any
</Files>

I guess there is something wrong by calling

https://www.mydomain.tld/en/wp-admin/admin-ajax.php

this is a multisite and base dir is /
so it should not call /en/ or /fr/ parts in the URL
could this be the reason?

you .htaccess is (almost) identical to my multi-site test-installation, so I see no problems there.

the language-thing

(almost, as this is also in mine:

# uploaded files
RewriteRule ^([_0-9a-zA-Z-]+/)?files/(.+) wp-includes/ms-files.php?file=$2 [L]

but that only affects requests like /site1/files/abc.xyz)

admin-ajax.php in general will be slow(er), as it is code being executed upon every page load. don’t think you have to worry about the language identifier though.

frank

this is a multisite

I’ll move this over to the Multisite forum.

wp-admin has been protected w/ htaccess so there is a additional rule inside htaccess:

REMOVE THAT.

You’re blocking ADMIN-AJAX. It’s in there.