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Hi, I’m doing some speed optimizations on my site. We’ve identified the WP Affiliate plugin as one that requires some time and resources to load, so we are looking at ways of reducing this site drag.
We have a plugin that we can turn on/off any plugin selectively to save load time.
Do you think it possible to deactivate WP Affiliate on unneeded pages to decrease load time? My hunch is that this well mess up tracking, but what if we turned it off on say our homepage and most popular blog posts (where people enter the site), will the tracking still work elsewhere?
Thank you for considering this!
-Matt
The affiliate plugin doesn’t actually load much in the front end. The only area where it loads is the admin dashboard and the affiliate portal page. For your normal visitors, it doesn’t really have much effect.
Sometimes the tool you are using to measure something can mislead you. For example, there is a plugin called P3 which measures load time in the back-end. Basically, it measures the load time when you (the site admin) is viewing the admin side of your website. Your back-end performance doesn’t really matter because it doesn’t affect anything in terms of your front-end page load time. The plugin’s back-end loads a lot of data so it can show all those info to you.
There is a better test you can do to determine if a plugin is really affecting your front-end page load speed.
Simply do the following test:
1. Deactivate the plugins in question
2. Run a Google Page Speed addon analysis [keep note of this result]
3. Now, activate the plugins in question and reload the page
4. Run a Google Page Speed addon analysis again [keep note of this result]
The difference between #2 and #4 will tell us the exact performance impact the plugin in question has.
Send us the result difference and I will be able to see exactly what is going wrong. Then I can provide more explanation.
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