Hey junesbad,
Hope you’re well today 🙂
That would really depend on the amount of sidebar that you’re using/replacing on your site.
Can you please add more information on the setup and amount of sidebars you’re using?
Best regards,
Bojan
Hi Bojan,
thank you for answering. We use WP 4.3.1 and only use 6 custom sidebars with the sidebars plugin.
Here you can see two examples:
http://jga-versand.de/die-hangover-t-shirts-junggesellenabschied-kollektion/
http://jga-versand.de/impressum/
Both sidebars on the left.
Best regards,
Junes
Hey Junes,
I’ve did some testing with P3 Plugin and it does not make the page slower, but there seems to be some kind of incompatibility with P3 where the plugin says that Custom Sidebars are taking 45% (in my case) runtime.
What I’ve found is CustomSidebars did not have an impact on the page load time, even though P3 tells the me that it slows down the site.
With that being said I’ve forwarded this to our developer so we can investigate it further with the other performance related tests.
Best regards,
Bojan
I too am seeing this issue. Are you able to confirm that the plugin definitely does NOT slow down page generation for visitors in the manner suggested by the P3 profiler?
As an aside, reading elsewhere about the P3 Profiler, it seems that the results P3 generates is for the logged-in Admin users – not a non-logged-in visitor.
The results would be VERY different for a non-logged-in visitor.
I am currently of the opinion that using the P3 Profiler is of no value whatsoever. I will comment here if I change my mind.
I don’t care how much plug-ins slow down the site while I am working on it. I only care about how plug-ins affect my visitors. The P3 Profiler doesn’t appear to tell me anything about that.
Is WPMU DEV Support able to confirm that any sidebars generated by the Custom Sidebars plugin would be cached by the W3 Total Cache plug-in and, therefore, people who use that would see absolutely NO performance problem by using Custom Sidebars?
