admin-ajax.php very slow if plugin activated

Hi!

I’ve been experimenting for a while now, and it seems like that WooCommerce is slowing down ajax requests when active.
I’m testing on plain wordpress installations with only woocommerce installed. Both of my test servers have an initial ajax response time about 2-300ms. When WooCommerce is active it raises to 1.2-1.4 seconds, so roughly a 1 second delay. I don’t think this supposed to be this high, am I right?

I’ve been googling around and looks like I’m not the only one with this issue:

• https://support.woothemes.com/hc/communities/public/questions/201220087-Woocommerce-Causes-Slow-admin-ajax-php-Load-Times
• https://premium.wpmudev.org/forums/topic/woocommerce-and-admin-ajaxphp-page-load-speed-issue

I’m using WooCommerce 2.3.7. I have also tested on an older version. On 2.1.12 the delay is not present.

One of the test servers run Windows on a XAMPP stack, and the second is a VPS server running linux.

This is definitely a WooCommerce related issue, as no other plugins are present on the servers + other people are also reporting it.

I’m developing ajax related plugins for years now, and this highly affects my plugins and probably others as well. Would you please test this issue on your test environments?

If anyone else experiences similar issues, please let me know.

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