Maybe for simpler setup…

  • We have a website with quite a few plugins (67) and hoped SPB would help us to get better ratings on GTMetrix since we needed to defer a lot of JS scripts. We use a plugin called “Plugin Organizer” to filter out some unnecessary plugins from some pages but there’s still about 54 plugins loaded on the home page.

    It seems to work like a charm in defering JS files, meaning the warning instantly went away, and only a few third-party JS files were left.

    However, our homepage went from ~1.8s loading and ~75 request to >5s loading and >800 request. The page would display slightly quicker, but content would take much longer to load. We’ve tried different options but without luck.

    In the end, we removed the plugin and experienced better performance without. It may or may have not been caused by our specific environment.

    • This topic was modified 7 years, 9 months ago by thisisbbc.
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  • Giving a 2 star rating because you can’t make a website with 67 plugin to load quickly… How can you call this? ??

    Plugin Support mbrsolution

    (@mbrsolution)

    As (@tiguan) has reported, a site running 67 plugins would not load fast and it could definitely cause issues between plugins especially JavaScript conflict issues. One key factor with WordPress websites is to have as few plugins as possible active and or installed. This would improve drastically the loading and speed of your site. Of course there are other factors to consider but that is another topic altogether.

    To give this plugin a rating of 2 stars because of your current setup is not doing justice to this great plugin. Please consider what I have suggested above and change your ratings to a higher number of stars ??

    Kind regards

    Thread Starter thisisbbc

    (@thisisbbc)

    I agree that I may have been a little harsh with my review here and I’m bumping this to three stars for the quick reply which is something we don’t see enough nowadays.

    The thing here that is important to note is that our page did load fast before we installed SBP. We were only looking to follow some suggestions indicated by GTMetrix (which should in return improve the performance). A page load of ~1.8s and ~75 requests for logged in users is satisfying. It’s not bleeding-edge fast, but fast enough. For logged out users, the page was loading very fast as well, probably even closer to the 1s range.

    After the plugin was installed and we started deferring JS files, this increased drastically to well over 5s and the numbers of requests spiked to ~800. The overall performance of the website also decreased significantly.

    Unfortunately it looks like there may be some incompatibilities with other plugins in our environment. I realize the challenge it is to ensure compatibility across the WP ecosystem so I may as well just remove this review unless you want to investigate further on the issue.

    Kind regards,
    B

    Plugin Support mbrsolution

    (@mbrsolution)

    Thank you for adding 1 more star.

    Now looking at your comment further. When deferring JS files you first have to make sure that the plugin in question allows for deferring of the JS files in the first place.

    In regards to your other comment.

    Unfortunately it looks like there may be some incompatibilities with other plugins in our environment.

    Fix those incompatibilities first and make sure there are no more issues. Then you can test this plugin again and see if there are any improvements in your site loading.

    Regards

    Thread Starter thisisbbc

    (@thisisbbc)

    @mrbsolution : Regarding the incompatibilities, they arise from the use of SBP, not between our plugins. While I’d usually be happy to dig in deeper, it’s a very busy season for us and this is not something I can do currently.

    Plugin Support mbrsolution

    (@mbrsolution)

    @thisisbbc, no problem and I understand. Take your time with this but you will notice a huge improvement in your site once you remove quite a few of your plugins. Too many plugin are not very good for WordPress websites.

    Kine regards

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