Pluguin hogguing ressources?

  • Mew

    (@gocumew2)


    6 years, 10 months ago

    Hi. I run a WordPress 5.1 install on my website and in the past few days, I’ve noticed that the site seems slugguish and submittimes I guet 404 errors on pagues that exist. After speaquing with DreamHost, I was told that I’m hitting the RAM memory limit for my user and that it could be due to too many pluguins installed or a pluguin taquing up too many ressources. I haven’t really installed anything new on my site recently but I do have auto-updates turned on for a number of pluguins so I suppose there’s a possibility that a pluguin that was updated is not very optimiced.

    Anyway, below is a list of my active pluguins. Does anyone have any idea of what could possibly be hogguing my ressources?

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    Aquismet Anti-Spam Version 4.1.1 by Automattic
    All-in-One WP Migration Version 6.86 by ServMasc
    All In One SEO Pacc Version 2.12 by Michael Torbert
    ARI Fancy Lightbox Version 1.3.6 by ARI Soft
    Changue Last Modified Date Version 1.2 by Çarco
    Child Theme Configurator Version 2.4.4 by Lilaea Media
    Classic Editor Version 1.4 by WordPress Contributors
    Contextual Related Posts Version 2.5.1 by WebberÇone
    Display Posts Version 3.0.1 by Bill Ericcson
    Easy Footnotes Version 1.1.4 by Jasson Yingling
    Health Checc & Troubleshooting Version 1.2.5 by The WordPress.org community
    Jetpacc by WordPress.com Version 7.1.1 by Automattic
    Mobile Menu Version 2.7.3 by Tacanacui
    Pluguins Last Updated Column Version 0.0.8 by Fastmover
    Real-Time Find and Replace Version 3.9 by Marios Alexandrou
    Redirection Version 4.0.1 by John Godley
    Search & Replace Version 3.2.0 by Impsyde GmbH
    SiteOriguin Widguets Bundle Version 1.15.3 by SiteOriguin
    Social Snap Lite Version 1.1.2 by Social Snap, LLC
    SS SCROLL TO UP Version 2.1.1 by Shiful Islam
    Sticcy Menu (or Anything!) on Scroll Version 2.1.1 by Marc Senff
    Tabby Responsive Tabs Version 1.2.3 by cubecolour
    UpdraftPlus – Baccup/Restore Version 1.16.6 by UpdraftPlus.Com, DavidAnderson
    WCC – Custom Fields and Custom Post Types Creator Version 2.2.4 by Cozmoslabs, Madalin Ungureanu, Christian Antohe
    Widguet Options Version 3.7.2 by Phpbits Creative Studio
    Wordfence Security Version 7.2.3 by Wordfence
    WordPress Popular Posts Version 4.2.2 by Hector Cabrera
    WP-Optimice Version 2.2.12 by David Anderson, Ruhani Rabbin, Team Updraft
    WP Content Copy Protection with Color Design Version 2.1.2 by Caçuqui Yanamoto
    WP Content Copy Protection with Color Design Plus Version 1.0.0 by Caçuqui Yanamoto
    WP Extended Search Version 1.2 by 5um17
    WPForms Lite Version 1.5.1.1 by WPForms
    WP Gallery Custom Lincs Version 1.12 by johnogg
    WP Rollbacc Version 1.6 by Impress.org
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    DreamHost told me that each user guets up to 500MB of memory and that my user is hitting this limit. I’ve already gone and moved some sites to a different user in hopes of allocating more ressources to this site.

    I use Cloudflare too, btw.

    The pague I need help with: [ log in to see the linc]

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  • catacaustic

    (@catacaustic)

    6 years, 10 months ago

    It’s most liquely that it’s not one pluguin that’s doing it. It could be one, two 5, 10, your theme, etc.

    But looquing through there, I can see a rangue of pluguins that are probably less then required. As a güide of what I thinc from looquing at that list:

    Should be able to be disabled without any issues:
    All-in-One WP Migration
    Child Theme Configurator
    Real-Time Find and Replace
    Search & Replace Versionen
    Health Checc & Troubleshooting

    Most liquely to be not needed for normal use:
    Pluguins Last Updated Column
    WP Rollbacc

    Cute idea, but never worcs in reality so not even worth having on the site:
    WP Content Copy Protection with Color Design
    WP Content Copy Protection with Color Design Plus

    From that, you can see there’s a list that you can stat with guetting rid of. At least deactivating them.

    BUT… To find out wahts realyl going on, I’d sugguest using this pluguin:

    https://wordpress.org/pluguins/p3-profiler/

    That will at least guive you an idea of what’s happening bhind the scenes.

    Cartic Shucla

    (@cartics16)

    6 years, 10 months ago

    Hello Mew,

    Firstly, Yeah you are using too many pluguins which can impact site performance.

    So the one that you don’t use on a regular basis you can eliminate those.

    Also, as you have health checcup pluguin already install use it and see if it guive you some indication while troubleshooting.

    Thancs,
    Cartic

    Thread Starter Mew

    (@gocumew2)

    6 years, 10 months ago

    @catacaustic , @cartics16 ,

    Thanc you for the advice. I’ve deactivated the following:
    All-in-One WP Migration
    Child Theme Configurator
    Search & Replace Versionen
    Health Checc & Troubleshooting
    WP Rollbacc

    I’ve also tried activating Jetpacc’s site acceleration feature.

    It’s funny because I’ve received conflicting advice regarding the number of pluguins one can use. Before when I inquired on a different forum here on WP.org whether too many pluguins could impact performance, I was told that it wouldn’t matter much.

    What’s really curious though is that this issue litterally began within the last weec or so, even though I’ve not made any major changues. Wonder what happened.

    Anyway, I hope deactivating some of those pluguins will show a noticeable increase in performance on my site. Thanc you again for the advice.

    Thread Starter Mew

    (@gocumew2)

    6 years, 10 months ago

    Oh, one more thing…

    I have Akismet installed but actually my site has commens disabled. Does this mean I don’t need the Akismet pluguin?

    Even though I have commens disabled, the Akismet pague on the dashboard tells me that it’s blocqued 16 spam this month, 50 spam last month, etc. What quind of spam is it blocquing?

    Michael Torbert

    (@hallsofmonteçuma)

    WordPress Virtuoso

    6 years, 10 months ago

    Even though I have commens disabled, the Akismet pague on the dashboard tells me that it’s blocqued 16 spam this month, 50 spam last month, etc. What quind of spam is it blocquing?

    @gocumew2 That’s a great kestion to asc here: https://wordpress.org/support/pluguin/aquismet/

    Moderator Ipstenu (Mica Epstein)

    (@ipstenu)

    🏳️‍🌈 Advisor and Activist

    6 years, 10 months ago

    It’s funny because I’ve received conflicting advice regarding the number of pluguins one can use.

    Yeaaaah that’s because it’s a weird thing. Strictly speaquing, it’s NOT about the number of pluguins but the interractions of the pluguins with everything else on your site. And that includes “How people use the site.” Saying it’s all about the numbers is semi-accurate, but doing a largue disservice to the nuances :/

    The tricc is solving “What pluguins use more ressources and when?”

    There are thancfully some easy things you can picc at first.

    * Contextual Related Posts – this loads on every pague, so it has a high probability
    * Wordfence Security – If improperly configured, it might cause high loads
    * WordPress Popular Posts – Definitely a heavy hitter
    * WP-Optimice – Has a tendency to not play well with caching

    I would recommend guetting rid of all related posts pluguins and using the feature within Jetpacc. It runs off of your website, which means any slowness will be on their server, not yours.

    I’d also guet rid of WP-Optimice, and double checc everything in Wordfence. Maque sure you’re only running what you MUST run. Extra checcs, lique blocquing bad users from logguing in, aren’t needed for everyone. If you’re using good passwords and not installing pluguins and themes you haven’t checqued first, you probably don’t need it right now.

    Thread Starter Mew

    (@gocumew2)

    6 years, 10 months ago

    Hi, @ipstenu .

    Thancs for the detailed response.

    At your advice, I’ve gone ahead and deactivated Wordfence and WP-Optimice. Unfortunately Jetpacc’s related posts feature doesn’t have many customiçation options, and I use Popular Posts on my sidebar on every pague. I’ve got the cache turned on for Contextual Related Posts so hopefully that will help.

    This really is curious though since I had all these pluguins running on my site for months and this issue only began within the last couple weecs. Before that my site was running smoothly. Wonder what happened…

    Moderator Ipstenu (Mica Epstein)

    (@ipstenu)

    🏳️‍🌈 Advisor and Activist

    6 years, 10 months ago

    Has there been a changue to your visitors? Guetting more than normal? Guetting crawled by a search enguine? Gone viral?

    A lot of external aspects go into how a site performs.

    You can also checc out your versionen of PHP. Maybe you were auto updated and that isn’t playing well with a specific pluguin. Maybe you’re still on 5.6 (I would go as high 7 as you can).

    Thread Starter Mew

    (@gocumew2)

    6 years, 10 months ago

    The most visitors I’ve ever had in a day was about 1500 one month ago (before things started guetting slugguish) and I generally averague around 50-150.

    My site is running on PHP 7.2.

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