Excessive waiting on admin-ajax.php

Yes, this is why I just came here to research the ajax.php taking up loading time. Very awesome slideshow plugin!! Just does take up more time loading a page and cannot put on a CDN server as it is dynamic.

Any change fix in the future? Ready to donate $20

Thanks

Any news on this Ajax load issue? It accounts for 4.36 seconds of my load time. The plugin is great and easy to use but the speed presents a little problem. I am also willing to donate for a fix if I haven’t replaced the plugin for a faster one.

Hi all at the present @stefan Boonstra in doing some final exams for his college graduation. So he won’t be able to patch or update the plugin anytime soon.

He apologizes for any inconvenience this may have on anyone having issues with this plugin.

Kind regards

I know in the plugin w3 total cache that you cannot cache dynamic content such as ajax.php

But I switched hosting providers to siteground and their SuperCacher allows caching of dynamic content and this slideshow plugin now loads at .501ms instead of a few seconds.

Hi have you tested the latest version?

Hi,

I have tried the new version and have the following updates:

The site tries to load a zero byte file that doesn’t seem to actually exist –
https://www.mysite.com/wp-content/plugins/slideshow-jquery-image-gallery/css/style-light.css?ver=2.2.22

This delays loading for about 1.15 seconds.

The plugin also causes admin-ajax loads:

https://www.mysite.com/wp-admin/admin-ajax.php?action=slideshow_jquery_image_gallery_load_stylesheet&style=style-light&ver=2.2.22

And another for:

https://www.mysite.com/wp-admin/admin-ajax.php

These cause delays of about 1.2 seconds each (although these are concurrent).

I have also noticed that the plugin loads all the slides immediately on initial page load. It would be nice if this could be tweaked so that they would work with the WP-Rocket plugin which allows for lazy-load of images meaning you do not have to load all of the images on page load but only when they are displayed. This would save about 0.2seconds in my case.

Thanks

@shawaj do you have a cache plugin installed?

Yes – wp rocket.

This does caching and lazy load of images.

Does that matter?

Thanks

Can you deactivate WP Rocket plugin and carry out a test?

A test of what?

I don’t think wp rocket will effect it as ajax is not cached?

One of the problems seems to be a missing file?

Thanks

It also says in new version:

“Default stylesheets are no longer dynamically loaded through admin-ajax.php.”

But from tests, this is not true. Above link still shows dynamic loading of the stylesheet with admin-ajax?

Thanks

Can you uninstall the plugin and reinstall it again. See if that helps.

will that delete my existing slideshows?

Thanks

Hi, please read the following support thread.

Thank you

Hi everyone,

The current versions of the slideshow plugin all use ‘admin-ajax.php’ to load their stylesheets, even the static default stylesheets are loaded dynamically. The upcoming version 2.2.23 of the slideshow plugin will fix this, by loading custom stylesheets through ‘admin-ajax.php’ only. This means that the default stylesheets will be loaded statically, without calling ‘admin-ajax.php’.

Loading stylesheets through a CDN is an interesting suggestion. I have placed this suggestion on the project board for future implementation.

Best regards,
Stefan