yoast seo slow my website

I’m still using version 1.4.25.

WPSEO uses very little time currently.

I’m afraid to upgrade to 1.5.x because of reports like the above.

Here is my P3 Profile using 1.4.25.

Rich

WordPress Plugin Profile Report
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Report date: March 18, 2014
Theme name: xxxx
Pages browsed: 14
Avg. load time: 0.4662 sec
Number of plugins: 11
Plugin impact: 114.07% of load time
Avg. plugin time: 0.5318 sec
Avg. core time: 0.1837 sec
Avg. theme time: 0.0676 sec
Avg. mem usage: 24.27 MB
Avg. ticks: 9,991
Avg. db queries : 57.07
Margin of error : -0.3168 sec

Plugin list:
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P3 (Plugin Performance Profiler) – 0.2783 sec – 52.34%
Polldaddy Polls & Ratings – 0.0047 sec – 0.88%
Regenerate Thumbnails – 0.0011 sec – 0.21%
Rvg Optimize Database – 0.0026 sec – 0.50%
Shortcode Exec PHP – 0.0007 sec – 0.13%
Sitepress Multilingual Cms – 0.1573 sec – 29.57%
W3 Total Cache – 0.0262 sec – 4.92%
Wordpress Seo – 0.0278 sec – 5.22%
WP Smush.it – 0.0006 sec – 0.11%
Wpml Translation Management – 0.0324 sec – 6.10%
Custom Meta Boxes Wp – 0.0002 sec – 0.03%

We’ve actually been told quite the opposite by some other big websites (i.e. resource usage going down after the v1.5 upgrade). Have a look here for more information: https://yoast.com/major-update-wordpress-seo-1-5/

Just to make sure, is it easy to downgrade back to 1.4.x from 1.5.x? I seem to remember seeing something somewhere that said it was not.

Thanks,
Rich

Hi Rich,

You remember correctly, downgrading will break things as v1.5 converts all the data WPSEO saves to strict value types.

If you’ve exported your settings before upgrading and/or made a backup of the database as is the recommended practice, you can use that data to get things back to how they were, but it will take some manual importing into the database and such.

I experienced the same problem as Rich as soon as I updated to WPSEO 1.5.2.2. The performance is so slow on Mac Safari that I have to keep the plugin deactivated. By slow, I mean it often times out before completing page load.

Strangely, it seems to be Safari-specific, as my site still feels good on Chrome.

Same problems here and also with Safari. It was using around 55% of load time and costing around 1.7387 seconds which is considerable. I just logged in on Firefox to make sure it wasn’t a glitch with just Safari but same results so it is not Safari.

I am running the latest version of Yoast. Wondering if we need to switch to a new SEO until this gets sorted out. Any suggestions?

I profiled my WordPress site’s performance using the Profile Plugin and I wanted
to share the results with you. Please take a look at the information below:

WordPress Plugin Profile Report
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Report date: September 6, 2014
Theme name: Customizr
Pages browsed: 1
Avg. load time: 4.1658 sec
Number of plugins: 25
Plugin impact: 79.12% of load time
Avg. plugin time: 3.2959 sec
Avg. core time: 0.4224 sec
Avg. theme time: 0.4209 sec
Avg. mem usage: 60.00 MB
Avg. ticks: 58,148
Avg. db queries : 28.00
Margin of error : 0.0266 sec

Plugin list:
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P3 (Plugin Performance Profiler) – 0.0094 sec – 0.29%
Akismet – 0.0076 sec – 0.23%
iThemes Security – 0.0566 sec – 1.72%
Facebook – 0.0551 sec – 1.67%
Google Analytics Dashboard For Wp – 0.0368 sec – 1.12%
Google Publisher – 0.0260 sec – 0.79%
Google Sitemap Generator – 0.0075 sec – 0.23%
GTmetrix for WordPress – 0.0047 sec – 0.14%
Iframely – 0.0034 sec – 0.10%
Jetpack by WordPress.com – 0.4554 sec – 13.82%
Quick Pagepost Redirect Plugin – 0.0984 sec – 2.99%
Reduce Bounce Rate – 0.0023 sec – 0.07%
Fast Secure Contact Form – 0.0230 sec – 0.70%
Simple Comment Editing – 0.0016 sec – 0.05%
Social Polls By Opinionstage – 0.0203 sec – 0.62%
Sucuri Scanner – 0.0128 sec – 0.39%
TinyMCE Advanced – 0.0013 sec – 0.04%
UpdraftPlus – Backup/Restore – 0.0017 sec – 0.05%
Use Google Libraries – 0.6351 sec – 19.27%
W3 Total Cache – 0.0248 sec – 0.75%
Wordfence Security – 0.0518 sec – 1.57%
Wordpress Seo – 1.7387 sec – 52.75%
WP-Optimize – 0.0045 sec – 0.14%
WP Overview (lite) – 0.0108 sec – 0.33%
WP Smush.it – 0.0063 sec – 0.19%

It is a known fact that P3 Profiler cannot measure the WPSEO plugin properly, so your results are not in actual fact real results.

@jrf – Can you please site the source for your comment or send us to other testing tools to verify?

I’m curious because so many people have stated the same results with WordPress SEO.

Same here… site has slowed right down… I’m about to disable it and move on like to know if there are any solutions that come about though… I love the plugin but it slows things down too much

There is actually a message within the P3 Profiler that says WordPress SEO does, in fact, show artificially high results.

Screenshot – https://prntscr.com/5bfw4j