Makes site very slow

  • Bought this plugin because of the cool tab feature it has. However, after playing around with it, adding images (2kb size) for almost 50 menu items, I realized that it made my website take like 8 seconds to load. So I started doing a test.

    I deactivated the plugin and got like 1.2 seconds in loading time. So I thought, okay… let me remove the pictures. Ran another test which gave about 6 seconds loading speed. After a lot of playing around I finally found out what was wrong… I was using tabbed menu (which is only possible with the pro version) for all my menu items.

    • This topic was modified 5 years, 11 months ago by pooltech.
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  • Plugin Author megamenu

    (@megamenu)

    Hi Pooltech,

    Please could you get in touch with us through https://www.megamenu.com/support/ ?

    You shouldn’t be seeing that sort of impact on performance so we would like to investigate further.

    Plugin Author megamenu

    (@megamenu)

    Hi Pooltech,

    I’ve been thinking about this a little more.

    When you say added images for 50 menu items, do you mean you added 50 individual image widgets to the menu? If so, I am fairly sure that will be the cause of the slow down. You would see a similar slow down if you added those 50 images widgets to one of your theme side bars.

    When you add a widget to a menu, we simply execute that widget when the menu is output; we do not control what that widget actually does (depending on the widget being executed, it could be a really resource heavy process – it depends how well the widget has been coded).

    Rather than using a lot of image widgets within the menu, you could instead you could try the Custom Icon functionality in Pro. You should be able to get similar results but without the performance hit of executing 50 individual widget instances. We’d be happy to discuss this through Pro support if you could contact us there ??

    Thread Starter pooltech

    (@pooltech)

    Hi.

    That was also my conclusion. Too many images do indeed add up to the page speed even though they have an average of 10-20 ms.

    Our idea was to add tabbed menu to all menu items and add an image for every sub-menu/sub category. It makes the menu very attractive, beautiful and also more convenient as we are selling lots of technical products.

    I also had a tech guy look at the problem and he said that maybe it’s my theme (martfury) that doesn’t perform well with this plugin? especially when both plugins (free and pro-addon) are active.

    I will try your suggestion ?? I will get back to you as soon as possible.
    In any case I will contact you guys through Pro support.

    Thx for the prompt reply.

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