Title: simonmott's Replies | WordPress.org --- # simonmott [ ](https://wordpress.org/support/users/simonmott/) * [Profile](https://wordpress.org/support/users/simonmott/) * [Topics Started](https://wordpress.org/support/users/simonmott/topics/) * [Replies Created](https://wordpress.org/support/users/simonmott/replies/) * [Reviews Written](https://wordpress.org/support/users/simonmott/reviews/) * [Topics Replied To](https://wordpress.org/support/users/simonmott/replied-to/) * [Engagements](https://wordpress.org/support/users/simonmott/engagements/) * [Favorites](https://wordpress.org/support/users/simonmott/favorites/) Search replies: ## Forum Replies Created Viewing 7 replies - 1 through 7 (of 7 total) * Forum: [Plugins](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/plugins-and-hacks/) In reply to: [[Jetpack - WP Security, Backup, Speed, & Growth] stats.wordpress.com causing long loading times](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/statswordpresscom-causing-long-loading-times/) * Thread Starter [simonmott](https://wordpress.org/support/users/simonmott/) * (@simonmott) * [10 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/statswordpresscom-causing-long-loading-times/#post-7445057) * Hi Jeremey * Thank you for your assistance (And thank Brandon for me too!) * It turns out the delay I was seeing is in relation to how my theme is using the Jetpack stats API to generate a “View” counter for each post and it’s requesting stats for “all time” which is the source of the delay * I’ve removed this from the theme and it seems to be working fine now 🙂 * Kind Regards, Simon * Forum: [Plugins](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/plugins-and-hacks/) In reply to: [[W3 Total Cache] CSS Minify bug](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/css-minify-bug/) * Thread Starter [simonmott](https://wordpress.org/support/users/simonmott/) * (@simonmott) * [10 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/css-minify-bug/#post-7469330) * Also, is it possible to both minify AND combine CS / JS? * Forum: [Plugins](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/plugins-and-hacks/) In reply to: [[Jetpack - WP Security, Backup, Speed, & Growth] stats.wordpress.com causing long loading times](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/statswordpresscom-causing-long-loading-times/) * Thread Starter [simonmott](https://wordpress.org/support/users/simonmott/) * (@simonmott) * [10 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/statswordpresscom-causing-long-loading-times/#post-7444997) * Hi Jeremey * Yeah, So I see 11 requests in total for csv.php. * 10 of the requests seem to pull in view stats for individual pages and then final 1 as a summary (I’ve not really delved into the requests too much as you’ve got tokens in the headers and I dont want to risk blacklisting myself on your servers:)) * Each request takes about 0.28s from my server sending the GET request to a response coming back which equates to about 3s (0.28s x 11 requests) of wait time just for the stats info to come back from your server which is where the bulk of the loading time comes from – If I disable stats for Jetpack my native page loading is 0.6s (I’ve still not tracked down where the extra 0.5s to make it 4s loading time is spent yet… * I have my top posts widget set to show 5 posts, and I have more than 10 – Its possibly using the number of posts I have showing on my homepage? * Is there any way that the requests to stats.wordpress.com could be made concurrent or can I trigger them on a server level (cron?) so that the delay isn’t visible to visitors? * Thanks Simon * Forum: [Plugins](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/plugins-and-hacks/) In reply to: [[Jetpack - WP Security, Backup, Speed, & Growth] stats.wordpress.com causing long loading times](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/statswordpresscom-causing-long-loading-times/) * Thread Starter [simonmott](https://wordpress.org/support/users/simonmott/) * (@simonmott) * [10 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/statswordpresscom-causing-long-loading-times/#post-7444995) * Hi Jeremey, * Nothing in my logs that indicates a problem – everything works fine and doesnt seem to generate any errors other than the slow loading. The only way I found this was via newrelic 🙂 * All I can tell you from the server POV is that I see a connection to 192.0.76.2: 80 * I’m going to do a packet capture to see what its doing and see if I can replicate the problem but for now, have some traceroutes 🙂 They dont complete (I assume because of firewall configurations) but my rtt on ping is about 6-7ms * ``` simon@www1:~$ traceroute stats.wordpress.com traceroute to stats.wordpress.com (192.0.76.2), 30 hops max, 60 byte packets 1 46-20-234-190.rdns.melbourne.co.uk (46.20.234.190) 0.158 ms 0.138 ms 0.124 ms 2 border1.tshr.melbourne.co.uk (77.240.7.133) 0.213 ms 0.263 ms 0.249 ms 3 no-ptr.as20860.net (62.128.207.177) 1.126 ms 1.315 ms 1.385 ms 4 2990.core2.ld5.as20860.net (185.19.16.153) 5.713 ms 5.766 ms 5.831 ms 5 be97.asr01.ld5.as20860.net (62.128.215.13) 6.325 ms 6.427 ms 6.513 ms 6 195.66.226.127 (195.66.226.127) 6.528 ms 6.639 ms 6.618 ms 7 * * * 8 * * * 9 * *^C simon@www1:~$ simon@www1:~$ simon@www1:~$ sudo traceroute -U stats.wordpress.com [sudo] password for simon: traceroute to stats.wordpress.com (192.0.76.2), 30 hops max, 60 byte packets 1 46-20-234-190.rdns.melbourne.co.uk (46.20.234.190) 0.144 ms 0.126 ms 0.111 ms 2 border1.tshr.melbourne.co.uk (77.240.7.133) 0.247 ms 0.233 ms 0.288 ms 3 no-ptr.as20860.net (62.128.207.177) 0.782 ms 0.965 ms 1.098 ms 4 2990.core2.ld5.as20860.net (185.19.16.153) 5.859 ms 5.844 ms 5.828 ms 5 be97.asr01.ld5.as20860.net (62.128.215.13) 6.251 ms 6.327 ms 6.368 ms 6 195.66.226.127 (195.66.226.127) 6.677 ms 6.632 ms 6.615 ms 7 * * * 8 * * * 9 *^Csimon@www1:~$ ``` * I’ll let yo know if i find anything in the traceroute * Forum: [Plugins](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/plugins-and-hacks/) In reply to: [[Jetpack - WP Security, Backup, Speed, & Growth] stats.wordpress.com causing long loading times](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/statswordpresscom-causing-long-loading-times/) * Thread Starter [simonmott](https://wordpress.org/support/users/simonmott/) * (@simonmott) * [10 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/statswordpresscom-causing-long-loading-times/#post-7444956) * Hi Jeremy * Unfortunately I was seeing this behaviour when logged out 🙂 * If I had to take an educated guess it’d be when wp-cron kicks in and it downloads stats to generate “Top Posts and Pages”, but even so, 4s is still a long time to load * Ping time to stats.wordpress.com for the server running my website is only 6- 7ms * Forum: [Themes and Templates](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/themes-and-templates/) In reply to: [[Twenty Fourteen] Site without a tag line](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/site-without-a-tag-line/) * Thread Starter [simonmott](https://wordpress.org/support/users/simonmott/) * (@simonmott) * [11 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/site-without-a-tag-line/#post-5030518) * Nice one Bruin! that fixed it. * Thanks a lot 🙂 * Forum: [Themes and Templates](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/themes-and-templates/) In reply to: [[Twenty Fourteen] Site without a tag line](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/site-without-a-tag-line/) * Thread Starter [simonmott](https://wordpress.org/support/users/simonmott/) * (@simonmott) * [11 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/site-without-a-tag-line/#post-5030508) * [@vinod](https://wordpress.org/support/users/vinod/) The only change I made was width related so that it wasnt fixed width * Site is [http://www.gentog.co.uk/](http://www.gentog.co.uk/) Viewing 7 replies - 1 through 7 (of 7 total)