Title: decrease site load?
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# decrease site load?

 *  Resolved [Gretchen Louise](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gretchenlouise/)
 * (@gretchenlouise)
 * [12 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/decrease-site-load/)
 * In using the P3 Plugin Profiler I discovered that the WP RSS Aggregator is responsible
   for 19.33% of my overall plugin load. As much as I love the features of this 
   plugin, I’m trying to cut down on my site’s resource usage. Any ideas for optimizing
   my settings? They are already set to only check feeds once a day. Thank you!
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-rss-aggregator/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-rss-aggregator/)

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 *  Plugin Author [Jean](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jeangalea/)
 * (@jeangalea)
 * [12 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/decrease-site-load/#post-4986678)
 * Hi Gretchen, a more accurate way to determine if the plugin is affecting your
   site’s performance is to test the load speed of the site with the plugin active
   and then again with the plugin deactivated. You can use tools like gtmetrix.com
   and pingdom.com.
 * Let us know about your findings, and also whether you are using the free version
   of the plugin only or whether you have also installed any of our extensions.
 *  [Xedin Unknown](https://wordpress.org/support/users/xedinunknown/)
 * (@xedinunknown)
 * [12 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/decrease-site-load/#post-4986679)
 * Hi Gretchen, and thank you for your positive feedback.
 * A WordPress page load cycle involves a great many components and factors, some
   of which actually need to be there, while some others are quite irrelevant.
 * Also, though I’m not quite sure which resources are meant here, resource consumption
   is measured in percentage of overall plugin load. So, if WP RSS Aggregator consumes
   on average 20% of your resources, and plugins altogether consume 50%, then WP
   RSS Aggregator consumes 10% of resources used **on average** while loading a 
   page (P3’s results seem to be aggregated statistics gathered while testing more
   than one page). This means that if your page takes 0.2 seconds to load, which
   is quite good, then WP RSS Aggregator takes 0.02 seconds of the load time. This
   is a very small amount of time.
 * Another factor to consider is that by default while testing P3 loads pages without
   using many of the caching mechanism employed by WordPress during regular page
   loads. This means that the load time displayed by the plugin is likely to be 
   significantly higher than the actual time of page load when a visitor accesses
   them.
 * You mention that your feed sources are configured to import only once a day. 
   This means that 99.99% of page loads do not trigger import of feed items, and
   thus are unaffected by external requests to feed sources. In addition, the logic
   used by WP RSS Aggregator to display feed items, which is triggered far more 
   frequently, is pretty much the same as logic used to display any posts by any
   plugin or theme, the logic that was intended by the creators of WordPress. This
   logic is already optimised.
 * Hence, what you probably should be asking yourself is whether you are experiencing
   slowness in page loads. If possible, would you mind sharing some statistics gathered
   by P3 on your website with us? Perhaps, it is not as bad as it looks =)
 * If you are still convinced that further optimization is necessary, you may want
   to consider some of the [caching plugins](http://codex.wordpress.org/WordPress_Optimization/Caching#Caching_Plugins)
   available. However, please be advised that like other plugins which alter the
   way WP Cron works, W3 Total Cache may cause incompatibility issues with WP RSS
   Aggregator.
 * I hope this explanation shined some light on resource consumption, and what is
   involved in loading a WordPress page. There are many more technical articles 
   dedicated to this subject, such as [this one](http://kadavy.net/blog/posts/wordpress-optimization/),
   that can help a technical user understand what goes on behind the scenes.
 * Please don’t hesitate to ask if you have further questions.

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 * Last reply from: [Xedin Unknown](https://wordpress.org/support/users/xedinunknown/)
 * Last activity: [12 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/decrease-site-load/#post-4986679)
 * Status: resolved