Title: redirect performance
Last modified: September 14, 2023

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# redirect performance

 *  Resolved [ildomandatore](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ildomandatore/)
 * (@ildomandatore)
 * [2 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/redirect-performance/)
 * Your plugin is simply gorgeous! Unfortunately, a plugin slows down redirects 
   a lot: Yet Another Stars Rating.
 * I contacted their support, but they say “they have tested thousands of sites 
   with no performance issues”
 * Is there anything you can do with redirects?
 * How can I prove that it is their plugin that is causing the problem?
 * The page I need help with: _[[log in](https://login.wordpress.org/?redirect_to=https%3A%2F%2Fwordpress.org%2Fsupport%2Ftopic%2Fredirect-performance%2F%3Foutput_format%3Dmd&locale=en_US)
   to see the link]_

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 *  Plugin Author [Christoph](https://wordpress.org/support/users/camthor/)
 * (@camthor)
 * [2 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/redirect-performance/#post-17052507)
 * You could use the debugging to just show the URL so that you don’t count in the
   loading time of the new page. For a random post that is: [https://giocone.com/?redirect_to=random&rutpdebug=2](https://giocone.com/?redirect_to=random&rutpdebug=2)
 * To get reliable information about the duration, you probably have to run it quite
   often and calculate an average. If another plugin slows down this process, there
   should be a difference, depending on whether that plugin is enabled or disabled.
 * You could also look at the code. The plugin Redirect URL to Post is really minimalist.
   It doesn’t even load anything like images, style sheets and so on. I assume that
   at star rating plugin needs to do thousands of things to show and save the ratings,
   to check that everyone can vote only once, for the settings pages and much more.
 * But you will be in a difficult position to argue with them. Maybe you can disable
   some of their features, use different caching, a CDN or something like that.
 *  Thread Starter [ildomandatore](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ildomandatore/)
 * (@ildomandatore)
 * [2 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/redirect-performance/#post-17053036)
 * I’m perplexed. The results are very different in the tests and I only have the
   text. Does this mean that Adsense is causing the problems? I am aware that Adsense
   slows down a lot, but doing manual tests I noticed a notable difference during
   redirects if I have the plugin to rate with stars and without
 * Test done with a tool:
   [https://www.webpagetest.org/result/230915_AiDc7E_4CQ/](https://www.webpagetest.org/result/230915_AiDc7E_4CQ/)
   [https://www.webpagetest.org/result/230915_BiDc32_575/](https://www.webpagetest.org/result/230915_BiDc32_575/)
 * The URL is always different.
    -  This reply was modified 2 years, 7 months ago by [ildomandatore](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ildomandatore/).
 *  Plugin Author [Christoph](https://wordpress.org/support/users/camthor/)
 * (@camthor)
 * [2 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/redirect-performance/#post-17054306)
 * I have no experience with adsense, but I assume that it is basically JavaScript
   that loads after the page has been rendered by WordPress.
 * You could check in the developer tools of your browser how fast the resources
   of the page load. Maybe you find something. It might take more time until the
   page is complete.
 * This plugin here doesn’t load anything into pages.

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 * Last reply from: [Christoph](https://wordpress.org/support/users/camthor/)
 * Last activity: [2 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/redirect-performance/#post-17054306)
 * Status: resolved