Jetpack had been making my site slow all the time zzz...
I love Jetpack's functionally but when I heard Rich saying something about P3 plugin and tried it, I found out that it is a resource hog.
And even after you uninstalled it, the loading time is still long.
So, if anyone has uninstalled jetpack, you need to remove the css and js from jetpack..
http://www.tjkelly.com/blog/remove-wordpress-jetpack-css/
I tried the method described in the above link and my page load decreased by 3 seconds.
Phew.
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I found a couple things that can help.
Plugin "Theme Check". When you run it it will give you a list of the shortcomings or errors of your theme.
Link: www.gtmetrix.com where you plug in your website url. It will load everything from your site and pinpoint exactly what is taking all the time to load.
I have an eCommerce site. I have over 2000 items loaded, but because they load an image for every single size, and each image has it own url, I have over 4500 images that need to load. I am trying to see if this can be remedied.
I also use a slider on the homepage, which is the storefront, and may stop doing this, because it also is using lots of resources. I may build my own static image that I can change frequently for that page.
Hope these things help!
I found that there is a way to setup Jetpack as a developer. This allows you to ONLY activate the parts you want instead of Jetpack activating everything as a default. This really save on resources.
I know that lots of people use it for the stats. I follow www.becomeablogger.com, and one of the perks was that I got a free setup for Google Analytics with multiple metrics. This saves you from having to set these up yourself. It also make it give you much more info that Google Analytics Dashboard does.
I left a comment on your page, and thanks! My site is much faster and now I know I can check it from time to time. Awesome being part of this community!
Haha glad your site is faster now.
I was worried that you are going to say "MY WEBSITE IS ALL BROKEN NOW! I DEMAND COMPENSATION!".
Because I like to give advice but most of the time after I gave one, I regret it thinking that people might go off to the wrong direction.
Make sure you backup your website first and check the following website to see whether you still have existing jetpack scripts not removed:
http://tools.pingdom.com/fpt/
Insert your website and click test now.
Scroll down and you can see that there is some list of css and scripts and stuff.
The ones that slows your website is the ones that is red and usually it is jetpack if you hover over it.
Then, go to your dashboard and go to appearance. Pick 'editor'.
You will see that after you click it , at the right of the page there is something called Theme Functions with the word "function.php" under it.
Click that and follow the instruction in my post.
But if your website is still fast, you don't need to do this actually.
Jetpack is totally bloated and we've commented on this a number of times here at WA how we do not recommend this plugin at all. There is nothing within the plugin that you actually need and when you install it you're installing all kinds of functionally that can totally kill your page load times as you've experienced.
How about deleting the plugin altogether? Does this not delete the CSS and Javascript for the plugin?
Carson
Ya, it didn't delete the css and js altogether so I needed to add some codes into function.php.
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I'd like to add this, posted recently in one of the forums, a disappointing experience with Jetpack.
http://ask.shoutmeloud.com/t/beware-of-jetpack-plugin-when-hitting-high-traffic/18148
This is one of the recent testimonials (bad testimonials) against Jetpack.