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Wpmudev Updates is killing my site's load time

Ran the P3 (Plugin Performance Profiler) to see what was slowing down the backend of my WordPress site. All of my plugins are updated.

Turns out it’s WPMU DEV

“Wpmudev Updates” is taking 2.21 seconds to load. What the heck! Is anyone else running into this? The only WPMU thing I have installed is the Dashboard.

Tue, 8 Jan 2013 23:35:31
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  • Mason
    • DEV MAN’s Sidekick

    Hiya,

    I’ll let the developer respond to this one directly, but I haven’t seen where anyone has remotely close to that kind of load time due to this plugin.

    ~When~ it updates it list there will be a slightly longer load time, but this isn’t done on very page load and you can actually update it manually.

    We’ll take a look though. That’s an odd one. Did you run more than one test to see if it was a random glitch per chance?

    Thanks.

  • 3tmentoring
    • WPMU DEV Initiate

    @Mason… I’ve ran it a few times. It runs anywhere from 1.7 seconds to 3.2 seconds when I run P3.

    @Aaron….

    1. It is happening consistently.

    2. I’m pretty sure it’s affecting both the front and backend, as ever since I installed the toolbar, my site has basically stopped loading.

    3. Yes, the dashboard is working correctly.

    4. The site has slowed down significantly whether logged out or as an admin.

    Some more details: I’ve obviously tried un-installing/re-installing and whatnot, still getting the same errors.

  • Aaron
    • Ex Staff

    The only thing I can think that might cause this is if you have a plugin or someting breaking the WP transients cache. Every certain amount of time the plugin contacts our API to get the needed data, then caches it. If another plugin is breaking the cache, then it might try to contact our servers on every pageload.

    Try a new test with no other plugins active, especially any caching plugins that might try to tie into transients.

  • 3tmentoring
    • WPMU DEV Initiate

    It looks like WPMUdev Updates doesn't play nice with Minify.

    Why? In the meantime, I'm going to try another Minify plugin as it's provided great results in the past.

    Also….. why does "Wpmudev Updates" have to run at all? It's not something I installed, and there's no access to it in the WP backend like a regular plugin. Can I just delete it off my FTP server?

    I'm trying another Minify plugin that will hopefully play nice with WPMU…..

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  • Aaron
    • Ex Staff

    You need the dashboard plugin to be notified of and update our plugins. Plus you can install more and get support right from the dashboard.

    If you are no seeing it in your dashboard, then you are not logged in as the assigned admin user to it. You can reset this by deactivating and reactivating the plugin.

  • 3tmentoring
    • WPMU DEV Initiate

    @Aaron, the dashboard is displaying fine, thanks. I’m trying to cut back on load time of several of my plugins, and I’m just a little frustrated that the plugin (which can’t be disabled, unlike the others) is still taking a third of a second of time on each page load.