Plugin massively slowing down site

Hi,

It is the first time to hear that the plugin heavily slows down the site. How many rules do you have?

Hi,

I have 110 rules as i’ve got all 92 english league clubs with twitter feeds on my site as well as sky sports etc for general news.

Should the plugin manage this many rules?

Thanks,

Dan

I see.

Technically the plugin should be able to manage such number of rules.

However, it could be that the plugin is renewing the caches in the background and may be slowing down the server and causing the speed issue on the page load.

You may increase the cache duration set in each rule to something like 43200 (12 hours).

Another option is using the Feeder extension. This allows you to reduce the load on the production site by delegating the task of retrieving tweets to another site which runs Fetch Tweets.

I love the plugin, but had to deactivate it. My site had slowed to crawl, and for periods wouldn’t load at all.

Sorry to hear that you get such a problem.

I cannot confirm the problem on my end.

My best guess is that if you create hundreds of rules with short cache duration, the cache renewal background routines make the server busy. In that case, the solution is to increase the cache duration for each rule.

Currently the plugin uses the transient API that WordPress natively supports. I’m thinking of implementing a custom database table for caching. That way, the options table which transients and other options are stored will be lighter. Not sure though that improves the performance for hundreds or thousands of rows.

Having said that, such implementation cannot be done over night. If you need it soon, you can contact me via the contact form.

v2.5.0 has been released and should solve an issue that caches get cleared with WordPress updates which causes too many cache renewal routines run in a short period of time.