redirect performance

  • Resolved ildomandatore

    (@ildomandatore)


    1 year, 2 months ago

    Your plugin is simply gorgeous! Unfortunately, a plugin slows down redirects a lot: Yet Another Stars Rating.

    I contacted their support, but they say “they have tested thousands of sites with no performance issues”

    Is there anything you can do with redirects?

    How can I prove that it is their plugin that is causing the problem?

    The page I need help with: [log in to see the link]

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  • Plugin Author Christoph

    (@camthor)

    You could use the debugging to just show the URL so that you don’t count in the loading time of the new page. For a random post that is: https://giocone.com/?redirect_to=random&rutpdebug=2

    To get reliable information about the duration, you probably have to run it quite often and calculate an average. If another plugin slows down this process, there should be a difference, depending on whether that plugin is enabled or disabled.

    You could also look at the code. The plugin Redirect URL to Post is really minimalist. It doesn’t even load anything like images, style sheets and so on. I assume that at star rating plugin needs to do thousands of things to show and save the ratings, to check that everyone can vote only once, for the settings pages and much more.

    But you will be in a difficult position to argue with them. Maybe you can disable some of their features, use different caching, a CDN or something like that.

    Thread Starter ildomandatore

    (@ildomandatore)

    I’m perplexed. The results are very different in the tests and I only have the text. Does this mean that Adsense is causing the problems? I am aware that Adsense slows down a lot, but doing manual tests I noticed a notable difference during redirects if I have the plugin to rate with stars and without

    Test done with a tool:
    https://www.webpagetest.org/result/230915_AiDc7E_4CQ/
    https://www.webpagetest.org/result/230915_BiDc32_575/

    The URL is always different.

    Plugin Author Christoph

    (@camthor)

    I have no experience with adsense, but I assume that it is basically JavaScript that loads after the page has been rendered by WordPress.

    You could check in the developer tools of your browser how fast the resources of the page load. Maybe you find something. It might take more time until the page is complete.

    This plugin here doesn’t load anything into pages.

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