Title: Beware page load effects
Last modified: October 8, 2026

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# Beware page load effects

 *  [andrew2968](https://wordpress.org/support/users/andrew2968/)
 * (@andrew2968)
 * [7 hours, 6 minutes ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/beware-page-load-effects/)
 * Form Maker was good enough for forms, though we ultimately moved on to Airtable.
   My big caution for anyone who’s considering it is a potential page load bug.
 * We traced the slowdown to Form Maker’s cookie-tracking code. The plugin was making
   database requests on ordinary page views, including attempts to update empty 
   cookie records. Its database design lacked an index on the field used to find
   those records, and it also performed cookie-table cleanup during normal processing.
   It wasn’t unusual for it to cause pages to need 45 seconds to load — and these
   were pages without forms. We deactivated the plugin, and page generation dropped
   from 45 seconds to less than half a second.

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