s2 member dragging my website speed down

I’ve been using pingdomtools.com to look into this and despite caching etc two particular pages from s2 load when the home page is accessed and these are killing my speed:

eg

http://mywebsite.com/wp-content/plugins/s2member/s2member-o.php?ws_plugin__s2member_js_w_globals=1&qcABC=1&ver=120608-120608-183528071

and

http://magazine.finewinepress.com/wp-content/plugins/s2member/s2member-o.php?ws_plugin__s2member_js_w_globals=1&qcABC=1&ver=120608-120608-183528071

What do you suggest?

Google ads don’t help either

Nigel s2member has to load the javascript to function so you can’t do anything about that.

Have a look at this thread which explains how to stop the css from loading click here

However after a quick inspection of your site I can see that it is very slow but s2member will only account for a very small fraction of that. Whats really killing your site is that you have 21 javascript files and 25 css files being loaded, try combining those into 1 of each and your see a huge gain in performance.

Hope that helps

Thanks yes working onthe rest of it but frankly I’ve got 7secs of S2 member loading in 2 different places… by far the largest component and would shave 75% of the site’s load time. I’ve implemented one part of the mu css load so will let you know if this works. I do think this needs some attention? Still… a great plugin!

I am having the same problem. My host is telling me reduce the stress on the cpu and users are complaining that the site is slow many times. I can see the same thing, every time a page is loaded two s2member files are loaded which is about 40%.
One guy suggested I make the two files static…I do not know what that means or if it can be done.

Nigel please report back if it works with the mu css implementation.

I do think this needs some attention?

Definitely, and we’re improving this in the new s2Member being developed.

Still… a great plugin!

Thanks! :D

One guy suggested I make the two files static…I do not know what that means or if it can be done.

You can do it with the CSS, but the current s2Member needs the JS to be dynamic. Changing this needs a change in so many areas of the plugin, that it hasn’t been possible yet. We’ve been rewriting s2Member for the past months and it’ll be much better.

We’ve been rewriting s2Member for the past months and it’ll be much better.

Any ETA for the update?

Sometime this Summer is the last ETA I saw Jason mention, but I don’t have any concrete date, sorry.