S2 Member apparently killing my load times

Hi

I’ve had issues with load times on my site (http://carefarmingwm.org.uk), especially in teh admin area. After exhausting my limited knowledge I contacted my host, Hostgator, who kindly took a look for me. Here is an extract

Thank you for contacting Host Gator support.

We checked your DNS and found everything to be resolving ok.

We checked an individual load each file called by http://carefarmingwm.org.uk and found the following content was greatly increasing this page’s load time:

http://carefarmingwm.org.uk/?simplemap-master-js=1&smpid=2070&ver=3.4
http://carefarmingwm.org.uk/wp-content/plugins/s2member/s2member-o.php?ws_plugin__s2member_css=1&qcABC=1&ver=120622-120622-1280021463
http://carefarmingwm.org.uk/wp-content/plugins/s2member/s2member-o.php?ws_plugin__s2member_js_w_globals=1&qcABC=1&ver=120622-120622-1280021463
http://maps.googleapis.com/maps/gen_204?ev=api_ads&cad=src:apiv3,ads:0
http://maps.gstatic.com/cat_js/intl/en_ALL/mapfiles/api-3/9/5/%7Bstats%7D.js
http://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/js/AuthenticationService.Authenticate?1shttp%3A%2F%2Fcarefarmingwm.org.uk%2F&5e1&callback=_xdc_._dwqnwr&token=29179

Two of these were caused directly by the s2member plugin:

http://carefarmingwm.org.uk/wp-content/plugins/s2member/s2member-o.php?ws_plugin__s2member_css=1&qcABC=1&ver=120622-120622-1280021463
http://carefarmingwm.org.uk/wp-content/plugins/s2member/s2member-o.php?ws_plugin__s2member_js_w_globals=1&qcABC=1&ver=120622-120622-1280021463

In order to protect intellectual property rights we must you contact the developer of this plugin for support.

Please can you advise what that means (for S2 Member – I have contacted the SimpleMap developer) and how I can fix it. The client is seriously unhappy with the speed of the site so I am desperately trying to resolve it.

Many thanks

Andy

http://www.s2member.com/forums/topic/s2-member-dragging-my-website-speed-down/

Thanks Kati. I totally missed that thread. Have tried the s2-hack option. NOt sure if it’s had any effect, but we’ll see. Thanks for the pointer.

NP
I just hope the new update will come soon, so the load times will improve. During the summer… :)

Kati, thanks for showing him that thread.

Andy, although we’re working on improving it, it’s still not a problem that most users are having, just a few. This indicates that it’s likely to be something in your installation that causes these load times to happen.

Since s2Member’s JS and CSS are being generated dynamically. You can store the CSS in a static file, as mentioned in other threads, but the JS has user specific info that can’t be cached as a static file to serve everyone.

Because it checks access permissions and WP user data, it loads through WP, although a slimmer version of WP. So, whatever you can do to improve WordPress’ time, will improve the load times of s2Member’s CSS and JS.

Sometimes, as a test, you need to deactivate other plugins one by one and check the load times after each. Then you may find one that is causing a conflict in some way. I know the JS file is s2Member’s, but remember that it’s loaded through WordPress.

For caching, Jason’s QuickCache plugin is very effective and helps.

Another trick a site owner that had this problem months ago used, was to use a plugin that let him enable s2Member in some pages only, the protected ones. I think he used Plugin Organizer.

Of course, like mentioned in the other thread, we’re improving s2Member removing all the dynamic parts from the JS file, so it’s static and this isn’t an issue anymore.

I hope that helps. :)

Thanks Cristian.

No problem. :)