Title: Blog subscriptions widget excessive https requests
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Blog subscriptions widget excessive https requests

 *  ResolvedModerator [Yui](https://wordpress.org/support/users/fierevere/)
 * (@fierevere)
 * 永子
 * [13 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/blog-subscriptions-widget-excessive-https-requests/)
 * Blog subscriptions widget is on front page,
    every time page is generated an 
   request is made to uri [https://jetpack.wordpress.com/xmlrpc.php?for=jetpack](https://jetpack.wordpress.com/xmlrpc.php?for=jetpack)
 * 1) its remote
    2) its https
 * and therefore is slow (adds at least 1 second), and because its made EVERY page
   generation (unless cached by object cache) it affects performance, thus doing
   too much remote requests isnt very nice for api server too.
 * maybe add in future versions of jetpack an option to just display form for subcriptions
   and dont make any query for subscription status?
 * [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/jetpack/](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/jetpack/)

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 *  Plugin Author [Jeremy Herve](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jeherve/)
 * (@jeherve)
 * Jetpack Mechanic 🚀
 * [13 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/blog-subscriptions-widget-excessive-https-requests/#post-3791135)
 * The subscription widget shouldn’t make so many requests. The widget indeed includes
   an option to display the number of subscribers on your blog, but [this value is saved in a transient and cached for an hour](http://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/jetpack/tags/2.2.5/modules/subscriptions.php#L613),
   thus making sure that your site doesn’t make an outgoing request on every page
   load.
 * If you do not want the number of subscribers to be displayed, you can uncheck
   this option in the widget settings under Appearance > Widgets in your dashboard.
 *  Moderator [Yui](https://wordpress.org/support/users/fierevere/)
 * (@fierevere)
 * 永子
 * [13 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/blog-subscriptions-widget-excessive-https-requests/#post-3791136)
 * thank you for explantation, Jeremy
    I am using xcache object cache, but on switching
   to new theme xcache variable cache has been disabled, therefore seems transients
   caching wasnt working at all and this caused excess requests to be made on every
   page generation.

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 * Last reply from: [Yui](https://wordpress.org/support/users/fierevere/)
 * Last activity: [13 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/blog-subscriptions-widget-excessive-https-requests/#post-3791136)
 * Status: resolved