https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/page-load-speed Gravity Support Forums Topic: Page load speed en-US Fri, 10 Apr 2026 07:52:03 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.1 q https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/search.php https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/page-load-speed#post-38188 Tue, 18 Oct 2011 12:23:14 +0000 Chris Hajer 38188@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>Anything out of the ordinary, I guess. You never know what might show up when looking through logs. With so many different server configurations, it's hard to guess what you might find.</p> <p>One thing I would do is try testing different types of Gravity Forms. A simple one with no AJAX and just a simple form field, and compare that to a regular page on your site. See if there are any significant differences with a simple form vs. a page with no form. </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/page-load-speed#post-38152 Tue, 18 Oct 2011 08:59:24 +0000 jorgesilva 38152@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>Hi Chris,</p> <p>I've installed it and enabled all the functions and logging. What should I be looking for? </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/page-load-speed#post-38072 Mon, 17 Oct 2011 12:28:32 +0000 Chris Hajer 38072@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>This is a good one.<br /> <a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/core-control/" rel="nofollow">http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/core-control/</a> </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/page-load-speed#post-38051 Mon, 17 Oct 2011 05:05:44 +0000 jorgesilva 38051@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>We've got full access to the server and WordPress, if you can point me in the right direction I'm sure I'd be able to install them. </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/page-load-speed#post-37702 Wed, 12 Oct 2011 10:26:28 +0000 Chris Hajer 37702@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>Got it, I just was unsure of the level of slowness we were talking about. Some quick tests:</p> <p>[~/birmingham]$ time wget -q <a href="http://www.backingbirmingham.com/" rel="nofollow">http://www.backingbirmingham.com/</a></p> <p>real 0m2.485s<br /> user 0m0.008s<br /> sys 0m0.000s</p> <p>[~/birmingham]$ time wget -q <a href="http://www.backingbirmingham.com/alum-rock" rel="nofollow">http://www.backingbirmingham.com/alum-rock</a></p> <p>real 0m0.809s<br /> user 0m0.004s<br /> sys 0m0.004s</p> <p>[~/birmingham]$ time wget -q <a href="http://www.backingbirmingham.com/b-card" rel="nofollow">http://www.backingbirmingham.com/b-card</a></p> <p>real 0m4.857s<br /> user 0m0.004s<br /> sys 0m0.004s</p> <p>[~/birmingham]$ time wget -q <a href="http://www.backingbirmingham.com/free-prize-draw" rel="nofollow">http://www.backingbirmingham.com/free-prize-draw</a></p> <p>real 0m5.977s<br /> user 0m0.000s<br /> sys 0m0.008s</p> <p>free-prize-draw is consistently slower than b-card (two pages with forms), and the home page is always slower than alum-rock (two pages without forms.)</p> <p>Do you have access to any WordPress debugging tools? </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/page-load-speed#post-37679 Wed, 12 Oct 2011 04:40:09 +0000 jorgesilva 37679@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>Hi Chris,</p> <p>Thanks for your post, while 5s page load may not immediately seem slow you have to compare that with the performance of pages where Gravity Forms is not used where page load speed averages &lt;1s... Is there any reason gravity forms should add &gt;4s to a page load? </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/page-load-speed#post-37558 Tue, 11 Oct 2011 12:11:22 +0000 Chris Hajer 37558@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>I loaded this page several times, after clearing the cache, and averaged 5.09s for a page load. Is that the amount we're calling slow, or am I not seeing the same problem? Just trying to get an idea of what slow is on this server. Thanks for any information. </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/page-load-speed#post-37557 Tue, 11 Oct 2011 11:59:28 +0000 jorgesilva 37557@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>Hi Carl,</p> <p>Finally managed to enable log-slow-queries on the server. Despite it being running for a day the only slow query logged related to Gravity Forms was the following:</p> <p>Count: 1 Time=4.16s (4s) Lock=0.00s (0s) Rows=0.0 (0), admin[admin]@localhost<br /> SHOW CREATE TABLE <code>backingbirmingham</code>.<code>wpbb_rg_form_meta</code></p> <p>I think we can rule out slow queries. Any other ideas? </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/page-load-speed#post-37240 Thu, 06 Oct 2011 16:22:32 +0000 Carl Hancock 37240@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>I'm not sure what to look at as we haven't encountered this before. I would suggest trying to see a list of slow queries on your MySQL and see what they are and if they are Gravity Forms. It's definitely some sort of server issue. Probably database related. </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/page-load-speed#post-37205 Thu, 06 Oct 2011 06:52:41 +0000 jorgesilva 37205@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>Hi Carl,<br /> Thanks for coming back to me on this. There are no caching plugins on the site or any of the other sites for that matter. Here's a list of the plugins we are using:<br /> - All in One SEO Pack<br /> - Duplicate Post<br /> - Magic-fields<br /> - TinyMCE Advanced<br /> - unFocus.Insensitivity<br /> And of course - Gravity forms.</p> <p>We have access to all the stuff in phpMyAdmin and command line access if necessary to check any logs. Nothing's been changed from the default installation though. </p> <p>Yes, I'm convinced this is a server configuration issue too, problem is, we're not quite sure what to look for as the problem only seems to occur with Gravity Forms. </p>