Title: Reducing server load Last modified: March 18, 2017 --- # Reducing server load * Resolved [Nbrubaker](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nbrubaker/) * (@nbrubaker) * [9 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/reducing-server-load-3/) * Hello, * This plugin is great, but has been the top contributor to excessive server load for my site. I would really appreciate some suggestions in how to reduce excessive admin-ajax calls coming from the Wordfence Plugin. Does anyone have ideas? * Thanks you Viewing 7 replies - 1 through 7 (of 7 total) * Plugin Support [wfphil](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wfphil/) * (@wfphil) * [9 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/reducing-server-load-3/#post-8937156) * Hello, * Sorry to hear that you are experiencing excessive server load. Here are some tips you may find useful: * Wordfence scans have been made to be as efficient as possible. You can try selectively disabling scan items and then retry scanning. Go to the Scan page and then the Options tab to see what scan options you would like to select. * You can also select the option “Use low resource scanning (reduces server load by lengthening the scan duration)”. More information on this option is below: * [https://docs.wordfence.com/en/Wordfence_options?utm_source=plugin&utm_medium=pluginUI&utm_campaign=docsIcon#Use_low_resource_scanning](https://docs.wordfence.com/en/Wordfence_options?utm_source=plugin&utm_medium=pluginUI&utm_campaign=docsIcon#Use_low_resource_scanning) * Live traffic can have an impact on some systems resources. This can be helped by extending the update interval to ease the problem in the Other Options section on the Options page. * This option specifies how often the view in your admin interface for Wordfence is updated. This applies specifically to real-time views like Live Traffic and the Scan page. On both pages, data appears in real-time as progress is occurring. Wordfence will cause your web browser to repeatedly send a request to check if new data is available. Those requests consume CPU and on web hosting providers that don’t provide many resources you may receive complaints from your host about the resources you are using when viewing Live Traffic and leaving your web browser window open. * By changing this setting which controls how often the live data is refreshed, from the default of 2 seconds to something like 10 or 15 seconds, you dramatically reduce the amount of processing power that viewing Live Traffic or the Scan page will consume. * Please note that this setting does not control how much resources performing a Wordfence scan consumes. Only how often your web browser connects to your site to refresh Wordfence data so that you can see the changes. Increasing this value which decreases the frequency can help reduce resource usage on resource limited sites. * You may also consider disabling live traffic to reduce the load on your web server by diabling the option “Enable Live Traffic View” on the Options page - This reply was modified 9 years, 2 months ago by [wfphil](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wfphil/). * Plugin Support [wfphil](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wfphil/) * (@wfphil) * [9 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/reducing-server-load-3/#post-8937189) * Hello, * Sorry to hear that you are experiencing excessive server load. Here are some tips you may find useful: * Wordfence scans have been made to be as efficient as possible. You can try selectively disabling scan items and then retry scanning. Go to the Scan page and then the Options tab to see what scan options you would like to select. * You can also select the option “Use low resource scanning (reduces server load by lengthening the scan duration)”. More information on this option is below: * [https://docs.wordfence.com/en/Wordfence_options?utm_source=plugin&utm_medium=pluginUI&utm_campaign=docsIcon#Use_low_resource_scanning](https://docs.wordfence.com/en/Wordfence_options?utm_source=plugin&utm_medium=pluginUI&utm_campaign=docsIcon#Use_low_resource_scanning) * Live traffic can have an impact on some systems resources. This can be helped by extending the update interval to ease the problem in the Other Options section on the Options page. * This option specifies how often the view in your admin interface for Wordfence is updated. This applies specifically to real-time views like Live Traffic and the Scan page. On both pages, data appears in real-time as progress is occurring. Wordfence will cause your web browser to repeatedly send a request to check if new data is available. Those requests consume CPU and on web hosting providers that don’t provide many resources you may receive complaints from your host about the resources you are using when viewing Live Traffic and leaving your web browser window open. * By changing this setting which controls how often the live data is refreshed, from the default of 2 seconds to something like 10 or 15 seconds, you dramatically reduce the amount of processing power that viewing Live Traffic or the Scan page will consume. * Please note that this setting does not control how much resources performing a Wordfence scan consumes. Only how often your web browser connects to your site to refresh Wordfence data so that you can see the changes. Increasing this value which decreases the frequency can help reduce resource usage on resource limited sites. * You may also consider disabling live traffic to reduce the load on your web server by diabling the option “Enable Live Traffic View” on the Options page * Thread Starter [Nbrubaker](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nbrubaker/) * (@nbrubaker) * [9 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/reducing-server-load-3/#post-8955952) * Hi Wfphil, * I really appreciate your helpful response. I will try some of these suggestions and see if it lessons server load! * Thanks again, * Nick * Plugin Support [wfphil](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wfphil/) * (@wfphil) * [9 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/reducing-server-load-3/#post-8958886) * Hello Nick, * You’re welcome. Sorry for the double post. I made my post and then the post wasn’t there. I should have waited as I thought there was a problem. Then later it appeared with the double-post. * Plugin Support [wfphil](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wfphil/) * (@wfphil) * [9 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/reducing-server-load-3/#post-9044671) * Hello, * As you haven’t replied to the instructions that I provided I will assume that the instructions did solve your issue and I will now mark this topic as resolved. * If however, for whatever reason, you are still experiencing this issue and it is not resolved please respond to the post, which moves it back up the queue, and mark this topic as “not resolved”. * Thank you. * Thread Starter [Nbrubaker](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nbrubaker/) * (@nbrubaker) * [9 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/reducing-server-load-3/#post-9044744) * I did reply (above). Thank you for the instructions. I appreciate it. I think they made a difference. * Plugin Support [wfphil](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wfphil/) * (@wfphil) * [9 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/reducing-server-load-3/#post-9044859) * Hello, * Glad to hear that the adjustments did help you. If you have any further questions please let us know. * Thank you. 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