Very slow page loads on woocommerce site while PODS is active

Can you go to Pods Admin > Settings > Performance section and disable the three items? Disabling the first two will disable that third one.

Let us know if that alleviates things for you, we’ve found that is a common performance improvement given that WooCommerce is highly meta centric.

Yes, that seems to have done the trick! Thanks!

Same problem with my sites and I have been trying to locate the problem for ages…. I finally found this advice, thank you.

I was just working with another site, this time a pretty standard site (not woocommerce) with PODS installed, and noticed it was also loading pages slowly even though it’s on a fast and capable server and there’s almost no traffic. I changed PODS performance settings as suggested above and it got faster. This leads me to wonder what the downsides of this change might be. In other words, should I always turn off those settings? Here is a CPU utilization chart to illustrate. The first set of spikes is 10 page refreshes (while logged in to avoid cache usage) after turning the performance settings off as recommended above, and the second much larger set of spikes is 10 page refreshes of the same page after turning those options back on.