Title: Plugin hogging resources? Last modified: March 8, 2019 --- # Plugin hogging resources? * [Mew](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gokumew2/) * (@gokumew2) * [7 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-hogging-resources/) * Hi. I run a WordPress 5.1 install on my website and in the past few days, I’ve noticed that the site seems sluggish and sometimes I get 404 errors on pages that exist. After speaking with DreamHost, I was told that I’m hitting the RAM memory limit for my user and that it could be due to too many plugins installed or a plugin taking up too many resources. I haven’t really installed anything new on my site recently but I do have auto-updates turned on for a number of plugins so I suppose there’s a possibility that a plugin that was updated is not very optimized. * Anyway, below is a list of my active plugins. Does anyone have any idea of what could possibly be hogging my resources? * ——————- Akismet Anti-Spam Version 4.1.1 by Automattic All-in-One WP Migration Version 6.86 by ServMask All In One SEO Pack Version 2.12 by Michael Torbert ARI Fancy Lightbox Version 1.3.6 by ARI Soft Change Last Modified Date Version 1.2 by Zarko Child Theme Configurator Version 2.4.4 by Lilaea Media Classic Editor Version 1.4 by WordPress Contributors Contextual Related Posts Version 2.5.1 by WebberZone Display Posts Version 3.0.1 by Bill Erickson Easy Footnotes Version 1.1.4 by Jason Yingling Health Check & Troubleshooting Version 1.2.5 by The WordPress. org community Jetpack by WordPress.com Version 7.1.1 by Automattic Mobile Menu Version 2.7.3 by Takanakui Plugins Last Updated Column Version 0.0.8 by Fastmover Real-Time Find and Replace Version 3.9 by Marios Alexandrou Redirection Version 4.0.1 by John Godley Search & Replace Version 3.2.0 by Inpsyde GmbH SiteOrigin Widgets Bundle Version 1.15.3 by SiteOrigin Social Snap Lite Version 1.1.2 by Social Snap, LLC SS SCROLL TO UP Version 2.1.1 by Shiful Islam Sticky Menu (or Anything!) on Scroll Version 2.1.1 by Mark Senff Tabby Responsive Tabs Version 1.2.3 by cubecolour UpdraftPlus – Backup/Restore Version 1.16.6 by UpdraftPlus. Com, DavidAnderson WCK – Custom Fields and Custom Post Types Creator Version 2.2.4 by Cozmoslabs, Madalin Ungureanu, Cristian Antohe Widget Options Version 3.7.2 by Phpbits Creative Studio Wordfence Security Version 7.2.3 by Wordfence WordPress Popular Posts Version 4.2.2 by Hector Cabrera WP-Optimize Version 2.2.12 by David Anderson, Ruhani Rabin, Team Updraft WP Content Copy Protection with Color Design Version 2.1.2 by Kazuki Yanamoto WP Content Copy Protection with Color Design Plus Version 1.0.0 by Kazuki Yanamoto WP Extended Search Version 1.2 by 5um17 WPForms Lite Version 1.5.1.1 by WPForms WP Gallery Custom Links Version 1.12 by johnogg WP Rollback Version 1.6 by Impress.org ——————- * DreamHost told me that each user gets up to 500MB of memory and that my user is hitting this limit. I’ve already gone and moved some sites to a different user in hopes of allocating more resources to this site. * I use Cloudflare too, btw. * The page I need help with: _[[log in](https://login.wordpress.org/?redirect_to=https%3A%2F%2Fwordpress.org%2Fsupport%2Ftopic%2Fplugin-hogging-resources%2F%3Foutput_format%3Dmd&locale=en_US) to see the link]_ Viewing 9 replies - 1 through 9 (of 9 total) * [catacaustic](https://wordpress.org/support/users/catacaustic/) * (@catacaustic) * [7 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-hogging-resources/#post-11289212) * It’s most likely that it’s not one plugin that’s doing it. It could be one, two 5, 10, your theme, etc. * But looking through there, I can see a range of plugins that are probably less then required. As a guide of what I think from looking at that list: * **Should be able to be disabled without any issues:** All-in-One WP Migration Child Theme Configurator Real-Time Find and Replace Search & Replace Version Health Check & Troubleshooting * **Most likely to be not needed for normal use:** Plugins Last Updated Column WP Rollback * **Cute idea, but never works in reality so not even worth having on the site:** WP Content Copy Protection with Color Design WP Content Copy Protection with Color Design Plus * From that, you can see there’s a list that you can stat with getting rid of. At least deactivating them. * BUT… To find out wahts realyl going on, I’d suggest using this plugin: * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/p3-profiler/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/p3-profiler/) * That will at least give you an idea of what’s happening bhind the scenes. * [Kartik Shukla](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kartiks16/) * (@kartiks16) * [7 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-hogging-resources/#post-11289216) * Hello Mew, * Firstly, Yeah you are using too many plugins which can impact site performance. * So the one that you don’t use on a regular basis you can eliminate those. * Also, as you have health checkup plugin already install use it and see if it give you some indication while troubleshooting. * Thanks, Kartik * Thread Starter [Mew](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gokumew2/) * (@gokumew2) * [7 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-hogging-resources/#post-11289478) * [@catacaustic](https://wordpress.org/support/users/catacaustic/), [@kartiks16](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kartiks16/), * Thank you for the advice. I’ve deactivated the following: All-in-One WP Migration Child Theme Configurator Search & Replace Version Health Check & Troubleshooting WP Rollback * I’ve also tried activating Jetpack’s site acceleration feature. * It’s funny because I’ve received conflicting advice regarding the number of plugins one can use. Before when I inquired on a different forum here on WP.org whether too many plugins could impact performance, I was told that it wouldn’t matter much. * What’s really curious though is that this issue literally began within the last week or so, even though I’ve not made any major changes. Wonder what happened. * Anyway, I hope deactivating some of those plugins will show a noticeable increase in performance on my site. Thank you again for the advice. * Thread Starter [Mew](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gokumew2/) * (@gokumew2) * [7 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-hogging-resources/#post-11289487) * Oh, one more thing… * I have Akismet installed but actually my site has comments disabled. Does this mean I don’t need the Akismet plugin? * Even though I have comments disabled, the Akismet page on the dashboard tells me that it’s blocked 16 spam this month, 50 spam last month, etc. What kind of spam is it blocking? * [Michael Torbert](https://wordpress.org/support/users/hallsofmontezuma/) * (@hallsofmontezuma) * WordPress Virtuoso * [7 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-hogging-resources/#post-11291356) * > Even though I have comments disabled, the Akismet page on the dashboard tells > me that it’s blocked 16 spam this month, 50 spam last month, etc. What kind > of spam is it blocking? * [@gokumew2](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gokumew2/) That’s a great question to ask here: [https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/akismet/](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/akismet/) * Moderator [Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ipstenu/) * (@ipstenu) * 🏳️‍🌈 Advisor and Activist * [7 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-hogging-resources/#post-11304166) * > It’s funny because I’ve received conflicting advice regarding the number of > plugins one can use. * Yeaaaah that’s because it’s a weird thing. Strictly speaking, it’s NOT about the number of plugins but the interactions of the plugins with everything else on your site. And that includes “How people use the site.” Saying it’s all about the numbers is semi-accurate, but doing a large disservice to the nuances :/ * The trick is solving “What plugins use more resources and when?” * There are thankfully some easy things you can pick at first. * * Contextual Related Posts – this loads on every page, so it has a high probability * Wordfence Security – If improperly configured, it might cause high loads * WordPress Popular Posts – Definitely a heavy hitter * WP-Optimize – Has a tendency to not play well with caching * I would recommend getting rid of all related posts plugins and using the feature within Jetpack. It runs off of your website, which means any slowness will be on their server, not yours. * I’d also get rid of WP-Optimize, and double check everything in Wordfence. Make sure you’re only running what you MUST run. Extra checks, like blocking bad users from logging in, aren’t needed for everyone. If you’re using good passwords and not installing plugins and themes you haven’t checked first, you probably don’t need it right now. * Thread Starter [Mew](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gokumew2/) * (@gokumew2) * [7 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-hogging-resources/#post-11305984) * Hi, [@ipstenu](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ipstenu/). * Thanks for the detailed response. * At your advice, I’ve gone ahead and deactivated Wordfence and WP-Optimize. Unfortunately Jetpack’s related posts feature doesn’t have many customization options, and I use Popular Posts on my sidebar on every page. I’ve got the cache turned on for Contextual Related Posts so hopefully that will help. * This really is curious though since I had all these plugins running on my site for months and this issue only began within the last couple weeks. Before that my site was running smoothly. Wonder what happened… * Moderator [Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ipstenu/) * (@ipstenu) * 🏳️‍🌈 Advisor and Activist * [7 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-hogging-resources/#post-11306367) * Has there been a change to your visitors? Getting more than normal? Getting crawled by a search engine? Gone viral? * A lot of external aspects go into how a site performs. * You can also check out your version of PHP. Maybe you were auto updated and that isn’t playing well with a specific plugin. Maybe you’re still on 5.6 (I would go as high 7 as you can). * Thread Starter [Mew](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gokumew2/) * (@gokumew2) * [7 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-hogging-resources/#post-11306783) * The most visitors I’ve ever had in a day was about 1500 one month ago (before things started getting sluggish) and I generally average around 50-150. * My site is running on PHP 7.2. Viewing 9 replies - 1 through 9 (of 9 total) The topic ‘Plugin hogging resources?’ is closed to new replies. ## Tags * [optimization](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/optimization/) * [ram](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/ram/) * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/) * 9 replies * 5 participants * Last reply from: [Mew](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gokumew2/) * Last activity: [7 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-hogging-resources/#post-11306783) * Status: not resolved ## Topics ### Topics with no replies ### Non-support topics ### Resolved topics ### Unresolved topics ### All topics