Site incredibly slow when using Ajax Search Pro

[MastodontMedia]

When using your plugin the whole site becomes VERY slow.
As soon as I disable the plugin the site is working again.
What to do?

[MastodontMedia]

Link to searchpage: http://ecomretusch.se/vad-kan-vi-hjalpa-dig-med/

[Ernest Marcinko]

Hi!

In case your are using version 4.8.4 or before, please update to the latest version (4.9.0). There was a session related issue present in that version, which might have caused this problem.

References:
Plugin updates guide
Updating to 4.9.0 – changes

[MastodontMedia]

Using 4.9 and it is painfully slow

[MastodontMedia]

when I check timeline in inspector it says ajax admin takes 8s to load.

[Ernest Marcinko]

Oh you mean the search performance, that’s a different situation.

In case the ajax response is slower, then I recommend reading these chapters in the documentation:
– Fine tuning search performance – very important adjustments, expecially for shared and managed hosting packages
– Performance tuning – explanations about search performance and expectations and factors slowing down the plugin.

Long story short, the plugin speed and performance more-less corresponds with the hosting server performance if properly configured. (except cases where some kind of error causes the slowdown)

[MastodontMedia]

No I mean that the entire site is slowed down when the plugin is activated, the plugin performance is even slower

[Ernest Marcinko]

Hi!

Can you please check the login details? They seem to be incorrect.
I would like to run a few tests with the plugin activated/deactivated to see where might be the difference.

[MastodontMedia]

You cannot access this content.

[Ernest Marcinko]

Hi!

I did not see any difference when the plugin was active/inactive so I’ve run 2 external separate test to confirm the problem, however the tests did not reveal any significant difference:

Test by webpagetest:
ASP active – load time 8.507s – requests 68 – test: http://www.webpagetest.org/result/160616_HP_SGV/
ASP inactive – load time 8.503s – requests 62 – test: http://www.webpagetest.org/result/160616_JR_SKF/
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Time difference +0.004 seconds, +6 asset requests (the ajax search pro styles and CSS)

Test by gtmetrix
ASP active: -load time 6.3s – asset requests 65 – test: https://gtmetrix.com/reports/ecomretusch.se/xFFSjm6q
ASP inactive: -load time 6.6s – asset requests 60 – test: https://gtmetrix.com/reports/ecomretusch.se/srEvCNmL
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Time difference -0.3 seconds, +5 requests

This does not show any significant loading time difference at all. The second test was even faster with ASP activated, but it’s not relevant as it might be affected by server load.

I’m not sure what the problem is. Do you want me to install the P3 performance profiler plugin and do tests directly on your site? It might give better insight, on runtime.

[MastodontMedia]

Thank you for your time, I have run the samt tests now and it mus be our hosting provided.

[Ernest Marcinko]

I can also recommend this plugin: https://wordpress.org/plugins/p3-profiler/

It gives much better results, and can confirm possible issues, which external test might not see correctly.

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