Title: Performance: Seopress slows down WordPress
Last modified: May 4, 2020

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# Performance: Seopress slows down WordPress

 *  Resolved [nicoter](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nicoter/)
 * (@nicoter)
 * [6 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/performance-seopress-slows-down-wordpress/)
 * Hi,
 * I have 39 plugins installed, but Seopress is among the 3 plugins which slow down
   my site the most by far.
 * See [https://i.imgur.com/nrzaO68.png](https://i.imgur.com/nrzaO68.png)
 * Seopress takes almost as much runtime as the 32 slowest plugins of my install(
   _other _in the graph).
 * Any chance you can have a look at the performance of the plugin?
 * Thanks!
 * PS: Runtime tested with [P3 (Plugin Performance Profiler)](https://wordpress.org/plugins/p3-profiler/).
   You need to switch to PHP 5 to run it because it’s not compatible with PHP 7.

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 *  Plugin Author [Benjamin Denis](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rainbowgeek/)
 * (@rainbowgeek)
 * [6 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/performance-seopress-slows-down-wordpress/#post-12779356)
 * Hi,
 * thank you for your feedback.
 * P3 plugin is not at all reliable for measuring the speed of plugins (and it’s
   completely abandoned since many years: [https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/p3-profiler/reviews/](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/p3-profiler/reviews/)).
 * We are constantly striving to make our plugin always faster, but I can assure
   you that SEOPress is fast whether in backend or frontend.
 * Best,
    Benjamin
 *  Thread Starter [nicoter](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nicoter/)
 * (@nicoter)
 * [6 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/performance-seopress-slows-down-wordpress/#post-12779394)
 * P3 is very well reliable for measuring the speed of plugins. The bad reviews 
   are only because it doesn’t work with PHP 7 and people don’t realize this (b/
   c the scan returns no results).
 * I looked some more into it and it seems that particularly the `[seopress_html_sitemap]`
   shortcode seems to be very slow. On pages without the shortcode Seopress is reasonably
   fast.
 *  Plugin Author [Benjamin Denis](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rainbowgeek/)
 * (@rainbowgeek)
 * [6 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/performance-seopress-slows-down-wordpress/#post-12782841)
 * We recommend Query Monitor to analyse queries and speed.
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/query-monitor/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/query-monitor/)
 * If you have a lot of posts in your HTML sitemap, yes it can slow down the page,
   it’s just a wp query.
 * You can decrease the number of posts if necessary using this filter:
 * [https://www.seopress.org/support/hooks/filter-html-sitemap-query/](https://www.seopress.org/support/hooks/filter-html-sitemap-query/)

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