Title: [Plugin: Top Posts & Pages] Performance/Page Speed Issues
Last modified: August 30, 2016

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# [Plugin: Top Posts & Pages] Performance/Page Speed Issues

 *  [AuburnFootball](https://wordpress.org/support/users/auburnfootball/)
 * (@auburnfootball)
 * [10 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-top-posts-pages-performancepage-speed-issues/)
 * Hi,
 * I have some performance issues with the Top Posts & Pages plugin/widget in Jetpack.
   Specifically, the plugin/widget is adding significant time to the page load time.
 * **Problem**
 * When checking my site with tools like WebPageTest.org, I see that the images 
   being loaded for the Top Posts & Pages plugin/widget are dragging the site down.
   Specifically each is taking up to .7 – .85 seconds for DNS Lookup and Time to
   First Byte. The images appear to be loading from wp.com instead of my site/CDN.
 * Many are loading concurrently, so the total time this adds to the page is roughly
   0.5 – 0.8 seconds. However, the plugin seems to require the stats plugin in Jetpack
   also. This adds additional time to the total load.
 * Photon is not active. I am hosted on DreamPress with Varnish and DreamSpeed CDN.
   Both JetPack and WordPress are updated. I am using the Genesis theme with the
   News child theme.
 * **Questions**
 * I am trying to improve my page speed to give readers a better experience. I am
   not a coder, so I am fairly clumsy when it comes to figuring out solutions to
   these kinds of problems.
 * 1. Are these times normal for images hosted on wp.com? If not, where should I
   start checking for problems – conflicts with the CDN, the host, another plugin?
 * 2. Assuming these load times are typical, is there a way to improve this time?
   For example, force Top Posts & Pages to grab the files locally from the server
   or from my CDN instead?
 * 3. If there is no reasonable way to improve the performance of these images loading
   from wp.com, is there a recommended alternative solution? I’ve tried a few other
   plugins in the past, but none worked as elegantly, nor could I find a solution
   that would display both posts and pages together.
 * Thanks for any help and suggestions you can offer.
 * Best,
 * Richard

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## Tags

 * [performance](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/performance/)
 * [top posts & pages](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/top-posts-amp-pages/)
 * [widget](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/widget/)

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 * Last reply from: [AuburnFootball](https://wordpress.org/support/users/auburnfootball/)
 * Last activity: [10 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-top-posts-pages-performancepage-speed-issues/)
 * Status: not resolved

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