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Reputation: 361

Extremely Slow Wordpress WooCommerce website (Both in admin panel and end user)

I have a woo-commerce plugin installed within IIS 8 hosted in a shared windows hosting environment along with roughly 27-8 plugins related to my theme (Porto Theme) and some other functionalities. Unfortunately, I have a very slow response when adding/editing a Product or even visiting the website.(It takes about 25s or so to edit or add a product!)

I was wondering what could be the problem here. Some said this is due to the fact that you are hosting Wordpress on a windows server. So I did try this configuration within a Linux server, didn't make a dent!(it got even slower!)

This is my configuration for the windows case:

max_execution_time 180
memory_limit 128M
post_max_size 32M
upload_max_filesize 32M

My database is very light (around 30MB). I have also tried wt3 cache, autoptimizer, and minifications plus defering of javascript.

I tried this setting in Windows VPS, it got twice as fast as the shared hosting environment. But my shared hosting company is a reputable one and has some standard Memory and CPU allocations.

No Luck so far in finding the problem ... Is Woocommerce generally a heavy plugin or something?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1901

Answers (1)

Dave Yankowiak
Dave Yankowiak

Reputation: 96

I don't think the issue is WooCommerce as I have several sites that run it in various environments with plenty of speed. It's a well-built plugin.

I also don't think that the issue is related to the number of plugins you are running, but possibly about one or more of those being inefficient. I would follow the previous commenter's advice about disabling them all and then re-activate one at a time.

The issue could also very well be the theme you are using - Porto. I took a quick look at user comments on the theme's main sales page and several users reported it as having some slowness issues. If you have the Envato plugin installed, disable that. If you are not using the most recent version of the theme, try upgrading. And if none of that works, try switching to a different theme and see if that fixes it. I've unfortunately had to ditch paid themes in the past due to their developers not putting the time into maximizing performance and efficiency. It stinks, but a slow front and back end does no good for anyone.

Upvotes: 2

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