Good set of features but very inefficient

  • After investigating a performance issue on one of the sites I manage, I narrowed the problem (1.8-2.0s script time per request, not including download time) to this plugin.

    Having it active on your site introduces around 320 extra database queries, per page load, regardless of whether the requested page is even a shop page. A small increase in traffic was enough for this site to chew up alot of resources – disabling this plugin brought the avg queries per page down to 50, and an 80ms script time.

    Aside from this issue it’s not a bad ecommerce plugin but as the performance is such a big problem, I was forced to drop it. By comparison, woocommerce only added 50-80 queries per page and kept page load speed down so I swapped it out for that.

    Much work needs done for efficiency here.

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  • Plugin Author Justin Sainton

    (@justinsainton)

    Hi alancolyer,

    Thanks for the review. It’s a fair review – we have a long way to go.

    We have about 10 years of legacy code we’ve worked hard to overcome. We’ll get there, but it will take time. If you’re ever up for the task, we’ll gladly take the help.

    github.com/WP-e-Commerce/WP-e-Commerce/

    specifically – https://github.com/wp-e-commerce/WP-e-Commerce/search?q=performance&state=open&type=Issues&utf8=%E2%9C%93

    Thanks Alan!

    Thread Starter alancolyer

    (@alancolyer)

    Hi Justin,

    thanks for your response – I’ll be more than happy to review the plugin and update my rating for later versions as I realise you’re working hard to improve it. It’s great to hear that performance is being looked at.

    I’ll have a look at the repo and if there’s something I think I can contribute towards I’d be happy to help ??

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