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Ask HN: Why is Wordpress getting slower and slower with each version
I have realised that wordress is getting slower and slower with every new version.
The New Post use case takes around 29 seconds to fully load. And I have one of the fastest INTERNET connections.
What is the cause?
- dryicerx 17y agoThat's like asking, why is my car slow when I am near one of the fastest highways... Most likely reason is where you are hosting the wordpress app or the DB is slow and overloaded (guessing shared hosting?)
- digamber_kamat 17y agoNo. I am using wordpress.com services. The problem I guess is with too many hooks and too much of javascript that is getting loaded. They should go for something like lazy loading I feel. The editor in particular takes a lot of time. Wordpress is apparently aware of this problem and asks to install Google Gears to get it loaded faster.
- fcu_1 17y agoUse the firebug net panel to check which items are taking so long to transfer and load.
- jeffrydegrande 17y agoDon't confuse hooks (code) with lazy loading (data).
- digamber_kamat 17y agoNot confused. I guess hooks take a lot of sever's CPU while the js and things on client side are not lazy loaded.
- ionfish 17y agoOn my (self-hosted) WordPress installation, loading the 'Add New Post' page takes under 1.5 seconds. When static files are cached, it takes well under a second. Something is clearly wrong with either your connection to the server, or their server configuration (the former seems more likely).
- jlk 17y agoThis post had so much promise. I thought maybe we'd talk about database optimization or PHP modifications. Instead, I wager the OP is using IE7 on a Celeron-based laptop with 2GB of shared RAM, with a Yahoo toolbar and Norton.
- babyboy808 17y agoHave been using Wordpress for a good while now and it's still as fast as ever
- vsync 17y agoWhen you say you have a fast INTERNET connection do you mean it has high BANDWIDTH or low LATENCY?