Boost Performance Of S2Member (part 2)

continued from this thread: http://www.s2member.com/forums/topic/boost-performance-of-s2member/

Cristian, speed tests are here:

[1] all plugins enabled
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TEST 1A: http://www.webpagetest.org/result/120707_74_HTT/
first view: 10.68 sec load time
first byte: 7.50 sec
repeat view: 3.46 sec load time
repeat first byte: 1.61 sec

TEST 1B: http://www.webpagetest.org/result/120707_QM_HVR/
first view: 11.79 sec load time
first byte: 8.14 sec
repeat view: 7.80 sec load time
repeat first byte: 5.95 sec

[2] only s2member framework and buddypress
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TEST 2A: http://www.webpagetest.org/result/120707_AH_HP6/
first view: 7.55 sec load time
first byte: 4.5 sec
repeat view: 7.15 sec load time
repeat first byte: 5.54 sec

TEST 2B: http://www.webpagetest.org/result/120707_KR_HPM/
first view: 9.32 sec load time
first byte: 6.5 sec
repeat view: 5.09 sec load time
repeat first byte: 3.46 sec

[3] only buddypress
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TEST 3A: http://www.webpagetest.org/result/120707_K6_HQ8/
first view: 5.38 sec load time
first byte: 2.83 sec
repeat view: 4.81 sec load time
repeat first byte: 3.4 sec

TEST 3B: http://www.webpagetest.org/result/120707_AN_HQW/
first view: 5.10 sec load time
first byte: 2.66 sec
repeat view: 3.66 sec load time
repeat first byte: 2.22 sec

[4] only s2member
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Buddyboss theme requires buddypress, hence site gave an error 500.

Thanks for the tests.

I see that when you remove s2Member, times drop to almost half. Remember that s2Member is loading it’s CSS and JS dynamically, through WP, so it’s basically loading WP again. If WP is not fast, then that is reflected when loading those files. If you improve the speed of the BuddyPress only version, it’d most probably improve the other one twice as much.

If you disable s2Member’s CSS and JS and not load them, but keep the plugin enabled, do you see a drop in speed in your tests? Try this must-use plugin hack (the first part lets you keep the JS/CSS for certain pages):

/wp-content/mu-plugins/s2hacks.php
[hilite pre_code]