Works, but processes very slow after submitting form

We have been using contact form 7 for many years on many websites. It always worked great but over the past two years, the submit form processing time for contact 7 forms is extremely slow and we are missing messages because customers visiting our website are closing the page or going somewhere else because they think the form is not working.

We know this because we are hearing it repeatedly from customers who have emailed us directly to tell us our contact forms are not working. They are working – but they take a minute or longer sometimes to process after the form is submitted leaving customers wondering if the message was sent.

In our testing, contact form 7 has actually been getting worse with its submission process over time and we have had to replace contact form 7 with another premium form plugin on most of our websites.

We have emailed this to the developer in past years and we have also read of many other people have the same issue but it was never addressed.

Since nothing has been done – we are leaving a review. Hopefully, Contact Form 7 will be fixed so that it works faster in the future.