Title: Performance issues when using Cloudflare plugin (Elementor, Etch…)
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# Performance issues when using Cloudflare plugin (Elementor, Etch…)

 *  [mbaierl](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mbaierl/)
 * (@mbaierl)
 * [2 months, 2 weeks ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/performance-issues-when-using-cloudflare-plugin-elementor-etch/)
 * When the Cloudflare plugin is active **saving posts** in Bricks, Elementor, Etch
   and Gutenberg (and very likely other page builders) is slowing down massively.
 * Saving a page or post **takes 5-7 seconds** instead of 0.5 seconds without the
   Cloudflare plugin.
 * Reason being that the Cloudflare plugin executes about **9 HTTP Request **to 
   the Cloudflare API to purge the caches, totaling in the 5-7 seconds delay. That
   behavior is fine, but it would be much better if these http requests would be
   queued and executed asynchronously. This would have 0 impact on saving pages/
   posts, and the cache can be cleared in the background.
 * Please fix this performance bug.

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 *  Plugin Contributor [Remkus de Vries](https://wordpress.org/support/users/defries/)
 * (@defries)
 * [2 months, 2 weeks ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/performance-issues-when-using-cloudflare-plugin-elementor-etch/#post-18853998)
 * Hi [@mbaierl](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mbaierl/),
 * Thanks for letting us know. Improving the cache purge is already on our immediate
   roadmap as there is indeed a lot of room for improvement, clearing it async is
   one of those improvements.
 * That said, we’re running about a dozen test sites and we’re not seeing these 
   delays on any of the sites, so it’s good to know it’s also highly dependent on
   what your WordPress stack looks like as well as potentially your WAF and things
   like that.
 *  Thread Starter [mbaierl](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mbaierl/)
 * (@mbaierl)
 * [2 months, 2 weeks ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/performance-issues-when-using-cloudflare-plugin-elementor-etch/#post-18854091)
 * 🙏 [@defries](https://wordpress.org/support/users/defries/)
 * Did you also test using Etch and Elementor? In my tests with both the do_action(
   transition_post_status) executes 9 requests to the CF API, each about 0,7 seconds…
   🙁
 * Looking forward to a new release that performs these tasks async….
 *  Plugin Contributor [Remkus de Vries](https://wordpress.org/support/users/defries/)
 * (@defries)
 * [2 months, 2 weeks ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/performance-issues-when-using-cloudflare-plugin-elementor-etch/#post-18854115)
 * Yes, various page builders are in the testing pool 🙂
 *  Thread Starter [mbaierl](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mbaierl/)
 * (@mbaierl)
 * [2 months, 2 weeks ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/performance-issues-when-using-cloudflare-plugin-elementor-etch/#post-18854123)
 * … and no issues with those 9 API requests? That’s interesting.
 * Let me know if there is anything I can help you testing with…

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 * Last reply from: [mbaierl](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mbaierl/)
 * Last activity: [2 months, 2 weeks ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/performance-issues-when-using-cloudflare-plugin-elementor-etch/#post-18854123)
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