Ask HN: Why is Wordpress getting slower and slower with each version

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=922046

by digamber_kamat • 17 years ago

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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• 17 years ago

That'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_kamat2• 17 years ago

No. 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.

jeffrydegrande• 17 years ago

Don't confuse hooks (code) with lazy loading (data).

fcu_1• 17 years ago

Use the firebug net panel to check which items are taking so long to transfer and load.

ionfish• 17 years ago

On 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• 17 years ago

This 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• 17 years ago

Have been using Wordpress for a good while now and it's still as fast as ever

vsync• 17 years ago

When you say you have a fast INTERNET connection do you mean it has high BANDWIDTH or low LATENCY?

Ask HN: Why is Wordpress getting slower and slower with each version

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