For some time now I’ve noticed that many of my websites had rather slow load times. I kind of figured it was a hosting problem, so for two months I’ve been grinning and bearing it.
Well the other day it was getting ridiculous; so I contacted HostGator‘s tech support. Like usual, they got back to me inside the hour having checked into the problem. The said things looked fine on their end, and proved it with some tests from InternetSupervision.com.
So I went to WordPress and deactivated all my plugins.
Boom. Site was faster.
I then methodically started re-activating them.
Pretty quick I discovered SEOPressor – one of my favorite plugins! – was the culprit.
Checkout these screenshots from before and after the SEOPressor de-activation. The first shot is before…
And now, for after I de-activated SEOPressor:
We’re talking about something like a 600% difference in load times, with the plugin activated!!! Ouch!
A couple of those servers took nearly 30 seconds to load. Brutal.
My recommendation?
For time being, use SEOPressor when you’re writing a post, but de-activate the plugin when you logout. It doesn’t perform anything useful except when you’re editing posts anyhow. It’s still a great plugin, and I’ve shown the tech support guys these screenshots, so hopefully Daniel Tan will come back with an update shortly.
Did you ever hear back? I’m having the same issue.