Extremely Slow Loading

[christel]

Let me start by saying that I love the s2Member plug-in and I want to purchase it for 2 sites. But when I have it enabled on one of my sites, it loads extremely slow. Is there anything that can be done for that? I'm at the latest rev (3.5.8).

[Cristián Lávaque]

Hi Christel. I'm glad you're liking s2Member!

What WordPress version are you using?

Maybe there's a conflict with another plugin you have that is causing the slowness? Could you disable the other plugins and see if that affects the speed of the the website with s2Member? If so, enable them one by one and see which one slows it back down and let us know which one it was so we can try figure out a way to solve it.

Thanks!

[christel]

I'm using WordPress 3.1.2. I upgraded just recently hoping that the site would load faster. I have no other plugins activiated. Any ideas? Here's the site if you want to take a look: http://spratbayestateswaterisland.com/

[Jason Caldwell]

Thanks for reporting this important issue.
~ and thanks for bringing this to my attention Cristián.

Who is your hosting provider please? Is your MySQL database on the same server, or is that hosted elsewhere? There is definitely a hang up somewhere, and if I had to take a wild guess, I'd say your MySQL server is slow. FireBug indicates images/media are loading fast, but all PHP scripts are slow on your site.

[christel]

EasyCGI is the host. I don't know if the MySQL database is on the same server. I'll open a trouble-ticket with the provider. Thanks!

[drbyte]

Hi


Add this to the footer of your theme and report back with the numbers ( right click and view page source...loot at the bottom . it should say something like this : <!-- 10 queries. 0.445 seconds. -->

the code: <!-- <?php echo get_num_queries(); ?> queries. <?php timer_stop(1); ?> seconds. -->

Other things you can do:

Deactivate and delete plugins that you don't use
Optimize you database/ you might need to manually delete some tables that been created by some plug ins. (You need to back up your database first)


Contact your hosting company and ask them to increase the max allowed packet (The MySQL variable 'max_allowed_packet = 32M') from 8 to 32. They usually have it at 8MB...that's low for heavy traffic sites. 32MB is OK, unless you have your own BOX

Check your error_log if you have access to your root Dir. If the File is huge then your theme is broken.

Maybe this will work too:

Within your admin panel, go to Settings, Permalinks, and just hit the Save settings once. (If you have it customized)

Report back with the queries request first

Sam