site with PODs plugin very slow

What hosting? How many Pods / fields do you have configured?

We’re experiencing the same kind of issues on multiple platforms, including:

* Azure (IIS 8) w/php 5.4 — running with wincache: disabled (verified)
* Apache 2 w/php 5.4 — running with eAccelerator: disabled (verified)

Using P3 profiler:
On apache, PODS shows to be taking up 47% of the entire page load time.
On azure, unable to get P3 profiler to work — site is slower than on apache, high probability that it’s PODS still taking up ~50% load time.

Other plugins include:
* ACF (18%)
* Yoast WordPress SEO (19%)
* CF7 (3%)
* Other (approx 23 other small plugins) (12%)

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Xdebug reveals a lot of recursion with ACF, which may be affecting load times as well… though the cumulative times are highly inaccurate.

4 pods with 12 fields in each. We host with PublishPipe.com. We had no issue until 2 months ago.

<p>As far as performance improvements. There are two important things you can do. First, if you have relationship fields, you can pre-select exactly the fields in the related objects you need, which will radically reduce the amount of queries involved. Here is an example of how that works: https://github.com/pods-framework/pods-code-library/blob/master/example/classes/Pods/find/examples/multi-relationship-optimization.php</p>
<p>The second thing you can do is to leverage caching. I strongly recommend using an APC object cache, as described here. Also, I ‘d recommend nGinx over apache.

Once you have it in place, set all of your Pods objects to cache using object caching, as shown here. Also you should try the Pods Alternative Cache plugin, and experiment with both of its caching types, it often provides very dramatic results, but be sure to test, as it depends on a lot of factors if it will be worth it or not.</p>