Title: Performance Impact Last modified: August 31, 2016 --- # Performance Impact * Resolved [David Artiss](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dartiss/) * (@dartiss) * [10 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/performance-impact-1/) * Hi Mika, * Just started using this again after discovering you’d picked it up from John. Love the new features and I do wonder why they’re no baked into Core! * Anyway, I’ve had to disable the “Warn if Plugins Are Old” option as it was having a terrible impact on performance – loading my plugin page was taking 20+ seconds a time. Switched this option off and it went back to 1-2 seconds. * David. * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/ui-labs/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/ui-labs/) Viewing 11 replies - 1 through 11 (of 11 total) * Plugin Author [Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ipstenu/) * (@ipstenu) * 🏳️‍🌈 Advisor and Activist * [10 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/performance-impact-1/#post-7388012) * It looks like if you have a significant number of plugins hosted _off_ wordPress. org, this can be tetchy. I set it up to not phone-home like that unless the plugin is on .org, but I found out a LOT of non-org hosted plugins are more aggressive about checking for updates … which triggers this plugin’s too-old check… * Vicious circle. I’m going to put a warning label for it. :/ * Thread Starter [David Artiss](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dartiss/) * (@dartiss) * [10 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/performance-impact-1/#post-7388014) * No, mine are all .org hosted 🙂 Would it not be possible to have some kind of cache in place with a jitter time for each plugin so when they need to re-cache they all do it at different times? * David. * Plugin Author [Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ipstenu/) * (@ipstenu) * 🏳️‍🌈 Advisor and Activist * [10 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/performance-impact-1/#post-7388020) * Really? Well now that’s weird… Are they all ACTIVE on .org? That is, have any been removed? * The code actually does cache (it uses cached data which itself doesn’t refresh). The only lag would be an API query… how many plugins do you have? * Thread Starter [David Artiss](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dartiss/) * (@dartiss) * [10 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/performance-impact-1/#post-7388023) * I initially had it on my own site which has 20-30 plugins but I had the same problem on my sandbox site, has has about half that number. * David. * Plugin Author [Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ipstenu/) * (@ipstenu) * 🏳️‍🌈 Advisor and Activist * [10 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/performance-impact-1/#post-7388025) * You don’t need to sign your posts 🙂 We can see who you are by your gravatar on the left. * It’s very odd that I can’t replicate the slowness on my sites. I have 40 plugins, no issues. * Well I have a couple ideas on how to speed it up. * Thread Starter [David Artiss](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dartiss/) * (@dartiss) * [10 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/performance-impact-1/#post-7388037) * As I said, I reproduced it on my sandbox site, so if you’d like access to that just let me know. * And, yea, you’re right about signing – a habit I’ve got into from other forums 🙂 * Plugin Author [Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ipstenu/) * (@ipstenu) * 🏳️‍🌈 Advisor and Activist * [10 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/performance-impact-1/#post-7388042) * I have a possible fix here – [https://github.com/Ipstenu/ui-labs/tree/REL_2.2.4](https://github.com/Ipstenu/ui-labs/tree/REL_2.2.4) Still banging on it. * Plugin Author [Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ipstenu/) * (@ipstenu) * 🏳️‍🌈 Advisor and Activist * [10 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/performance-impact-1/#post-7388141) * I pushed 2.2.4, whcih should cache longer and fail faster… I hope. * Thread Starter [David Artiss](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dartiss/) * (@dartiss) * [10 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/performance-impact-1/#post-7388142) * Thanks Mika. I’ve since realised too that I had my screen options set up to show all plugins on a single page and I don’t think that helped! I’ll try it again and let you know 🙂 * Thread Starter [David Artiss](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dartiss/) * (@dartiss) * [10 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/performance-impact-1/#post-7388144) * Sorry, but I’m still having issue. I switched the “old plugins” option back on and to display my first page of plugins (10 per page) it went from 4.5 seconds to around 10 seconds. I did this a few times to make sure any caching was coming into play but it was the same. I accept, though, this functionality is going to add an overhead, so there may not be anything more you can do but thought I should report it anyway. * Also, if running multisite, there’s no way of switching this feature on for the network plugins page, which would be particularly useful 🙂 * Plugin Author [Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ipstenu/) * (@ipstenu) * 🏳️‍🌈 Advisor and Activist * [10 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/performance-impact-1/#post-7388145) * I wish I could figure out why it does that so inconsitantly… * > Also, if running multisite, there’s no way of switching this feature on for > the network plugins page, which would be particularly useful 🙂 * That could be done. Some network labs are in order! * [https://github.com/Ipstenu/ui-labs/issues/1](https://github.com/Ipstenu/ui-labs/issues/1) is open, feel free to leave suggestions. 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