heavy paypal button generation

Hi,
I have a page where I have a pricing table, and thus have 4 PayPal buttons generated.

My problem is that with these button codes on the page, the render time of the page is around 4 seconds, and with the buttons gone, it is back to normal at around 1 second.

I guess generating these buttons is server intensive, is there a way to cache the buttons, so not have S2 generate them each time?

Here is my shortcode by the way, all 4 buttons are the same with the exception of the recurring period and the price:

[s2Member-PayPal-Button level="2" ccaps="" desc="Trial member / $1 for first 3 days, then $9 per month" ps="paypal" lc="" cc="USD" dg="0" ns="1" custom="www.theguitarlesson.com" ta="1" tp="3" tt="D" ra="9" rp="1" rt="M" rr="1" rrt="" rra="1" image="default" output="url" /]

I of course have this within a href, that’s why the output is a URL.

Thank you for reporting this important issue.

That’s interesting. The generation of the PayPal buttons should not be very intensive at all, and certainly should not bring the page loadup that high. Can you use the instructions here to run the s2Member Server Scanner, please?

Knowledge Base » s2Member® Server Scanner

The server scanner passed on all items.

I also tried deactivating all of the plugins (except s2), and using the 2012 theme, but the page load was the same.

What can I do? This is really annoying, also, Google hates long page loads.

I guess generating these buttons is server intensive, is there a way to cache the buttons, so not have S2 generate them each time?

If you’re using them all for new signups, and not to upgrade existing users, then you could copy the HTML the shortcodes output and use that. Or you can create buttons over at PayPal following the instructions here: Knowledge Base » Using Buttons Generated @ PayPal.com