Another Wordpress Blog

Poor Tricia; her host told her her blogs are using too many server resources. The problem is what with running a lot of popular blogs and installing load of plugins, her blog just chows down CPU!

Tricia sent out an ABP about this at the PPP forums, so I went and visited Tricia’s Musings. After loading the page, I used the “view source” button on my browser, scrolled to the bottom and found the last few lines in the html. I read this:

</body>
</html></center>
<!-- Dynamic Page Served (once) in 3.866 seconds -->


3.886 seconds? That’s a lot. I just checked BigBucksBlogger; it took 0.73 seconds to serve the page without Cacheing. It took 1.07s with Caching. (More on caching later.)

Tricia is using WP-Cache, but almost 4 seconds is a major amount of time to serve one page. (Mind you, this number isn’t exactly the cpu. But it is proportional to cpu, so big numbers are bad.)

Anyway, Tricia is using lots of resources; it’s probably due to one very badly written plugin. Which? I have no idea.

Now I bet, you are asking me exactly what Tricia and Anabella asked: How can you tell how much time a page uses? And how can you tell if a plugin is a hog?

How to Tell How Much Time it Takes to Serve a Page

On WordPress blogs, you can print out the amount of time it takes to serve a full page by adding this to your after your footer is loaded.

<?php printf(__(‘%s seconds’), timer_stop(0, 2)); ?>

Where ever you place this bit of code, it will print the time lapsed since you first requested the page. By putting it in the footer, you can see the full time required. Read the rest of this entry »