Not recommended for truly Performance Oriented Users
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This plugin is really inefficient and bloated from a performance stand point, let me explain briefly:
1- When we have the “Ultimate Addons for Gutenberg” plugin activated and we create a Gutenberg Page that is Not Using any of the “Ultimate Addons for Gutenberg” Blocks, this Plugin insist on load anyway all their CSS and Javascript files everywhere on the front-end. This is really Bad.
2- I noticed thanks to the great “Query Monitor” plugin, that in the WordPress Admin Area “Ultimate Addons for Gutenberg” is making 6 slow database queries with an average time of ~0.0358 seconds. That is a Lot of Time. Below One of the Slow queries:
SELECT t.*, tt.*, tr.object_id
FROM wp_terms AS t
INNER JOIN wp_term_taxonomy AS tt
ON t.term_id = tt.term_id
INNER JOIN wp_term_relationships AS tr
ON tr.term_taxonomy_id = tt.term_taxonomy_id
WHERE tt.taxonomy IN (‘category’, ‘post_tag’, ‘post_format’)
AND tr.object_id IN (4422, 4411, 4372, 4351, 4337, 4297, 4232, 4221, 4212, 4203, 4189, 2489, 2468, 2380, 2143, 236, 53, 51, 46, 38, 35, 32, 29, 26, 23, 20, 17, 14, 2, 127, 110, 106, 990, 1810, 1809, 1808, 1807, 1806, 1805, 1804, 982, 981, 980, 979, 978, 1803, 1802, 975, 1801, 973, 972, 1800, 1799, 1798, 968, 1797, 1796, 1795, 1794, 1793, 962, 961, 1792, 959, 1791, 947, 946, 945, 944, 1790, 942, 941, 940, 939, 938, 937, 770, 3648, 3646, 3647, 3645, 3644, 3974, 1231, 1230, 1229, 1228, 1964, 812, 810, 1963, 806, 804, 802, 800, 797, 795, 793, 791, 789, 787, 785, 1961, 781, 819, 54, 52, 50, 48, 1421, 44, 42, 40, 1420, 1419, 34, 1418, 1417, 28, 1416, 1415, 22, 1414, 1413, 16, 1412, 12, 10, 8, 1410, 243, 241, 239, 237, 235, 233, 231, 229, 227, 225, 223, 221, 219, 217, 215, 825, 822, 815, 755, 756, 757, 758, 741, 2121, 2120, 733, 729, 725, 587, 586, 585, 584, 581, 511, 492, 490, 486, 484, 480, 475, 473, 466, 465, 457, 456, 455, 451, 402, 398, 356, 354, 336, 313, 311, 309, 305, 303, 299, 297, 293, 284, 187, 185, 164, 162, 158, 154, 146, 103, 1224, 783, 1098, 1097, 1096, 644, 676, 634, 672, 656, 548, 546, 602, 1949, 530, 207, 99, 7)
ORDER BY t.name ASC3- This plugin is using jQuery that add ~100 milliseconds to the Page Loading Time. There are another Gutenberg Block addons here in the repository(I prefer not mention the name unless it is necessary), that is not using jQuery. Truly performance oriented users never use jQuery. I know that Elementor, Beaver Builder, Brizy, Divi, You name it, are all using jQuery, But I say it again, Truly performance oriented users never use jQuery.
4- I also noticed that “Ultimate Addons for Gutenberg” is loading a Lot of javascript files on the front-end, to be more specific 8 javascript files. This are too much files. The another competitor that I prefer not mention the name, is adding only 2 javascript files while doing the same tasks.
All this Performance Issues that I mention Above are happening in All the BrainStorm Force Products( Astra Pro Addon, Ultimate Addons for Elementor, Convert Pro, etc…etc…) with the unique exception of the Amazing “Astra Free Theme”. The “Astra Free Theme” is the only BrainStorm Force Product that is Really Optimized for Speed, Performance and Efficiency at the highest level.
For the Users that are interested in Verify all the things that I mention above, only have to make their own testing using mainly Two Tools: The “Query Monitor” wordpress plugin and this online service to check the files loaded in the front-end -> tools.keycdn.com/speed. Also You have to use a Test Website that have at least 10 or 15 Posts with their respective Featured Images and Post Content to get Real World Test Results.
I honestly thing that the Vast Majority of people that give a 5 Stars rating to all the BrainStorm Force Plugins, are people that have the following attributes:
1 – Are Rookies
2 – Are People that don’t have the Time to make their own Performance Tests before they choose a plugin.
3 – Are People who only care about the Number of Features and Built-in Functionality available on the plugins, But due to ignorance/lack of knowledge don’t care enough about the Performance and Efficiency aspects.My purpose with this review is Not undervalue the hard work of the BrainStorm Force Team, My main purpose is to Motivate Them to improve the Performance & Efficiency of their Plugins All across the board.
All the Best.
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Hey,
Thank you for the review. We appreciate your patience and efforts to test and bring this to us.
Building effective, fast and user-friendly products is always our primary goal here in Brainstorm Force. We are more than glad that you love Astra Theme.
Below is the response to all the points that you have jotted down.
1- “Ultimate Addons for Gutenberg” Plugin insist on load anyway all their CSS and Javascript files everywhere on the front-end.
– This case is being handled in our development version. We now load the assets only when they are required and not on all frontend pages. We now generate CSS as per needed for the page.2- Database Queries
– We add two queries on page load, which takes up to 0.0002secs each. The query you are showing is when you are using Post Grid. This query won’t be loaded on all pages. The query time also varies with respect to the server. Also, we use default WordPress query fetching techniques rather than custom query since custom query bloats the page sometimes.3 – jQuery usage
4 – UAG javascript files
– Again this won’t be loaded on all pages. If you deactivate the unused blocks the corresponding JS files won’t be loaded as I mentioned in point 1.We would love to hear from you once again after the next release of UAG which will be solely focusing on optimization and enhance page load time.
Again we appreciate your feedback and we will take required actions that will help our product grow.
Best Regards,
Vrunda Kansara
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