Title: Translatepress causing lag on load
Last modified: October 27, 2025

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# Translatepress causing lag on load

 *  [annesophievax](https://wordpress.org/support/users/annesophievax/)
 * (@annesophievax)
 * [5 months, 3 weeks ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/translatepress-causing-lag-on-load/)
 * Hello! I use Translatepress on all of my multilingual sites, however for the 
   first time I am encountering a problem where there is lag on site load.
 * Using Query Monitor, I found that with TranslatePress enabled:
    - The site triggers ~174 database queries** **per page load.
    - Many of them are large `SELECT` queries like: `SELECT tt.id, CASE WHEN ot.
      original IS NULL THEN ot.original ELSE NULL END AS ... FROM wp_trp_gettext_fr_fr...
      LEFT JOIN wp_trp_gettext_original_strings AS ot ON ...` These originate from`
      TRP_Query->get_all_gettext_strings()`.
    - Total load time: **~**6.9 seconds (compared to 0.6 s when TranslatePress is
      disabled).
 * When I disable TranslatePress, the same page drops to:
    - 44 queries total
    - ~0.6 s load time
    - No visible lag
 * Environment:
    - Hosting: o2switch (LiteSpeed servers, Redis & Memcached available)
    - Object cache (Redis) enabled
    - Builder: Bricks Builder 2.0.2
    - Multilingual setup: small site, 2 languages (french / english)
    - Other plugins: Slim SEO, CookieYes, Wordfence, WPCode, Litespeed Cache (none
      seem to be causing performance issues from my tests)
 * Any help is welcome, thanks!
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   to see the link]_

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 *  Plugin Support [Daniel](https://wordpress.org/support/users/danieldandu/)
 * (@danieldandu)
 * [5 months, 3 weeks ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/translatepress-causing-lag-on-load/#post-18697794)
 * Hello [@annesophievax](https://wordpress.org/support/users/annesophievax/),
 * Thank you for you message!
 * TranslatePress stores all translations in your WordPress database. This means
   that when a page is loaded, the plugin retrieves the necessary translations from
   the database so it can display the correct content in the selected language.
 * Because of this, you may notice additional database queries compared to when 
   TranslatePress is disabled — that’s expected behavior. However, these queries
   are normally cached after the first load, and subsequent requests should be much
   faster.
 * Some of the queries you noticed are related to **gettext translations**. These
   are texts that come from your theme or plugins rather than from your pages — 
   things like “Add to cart,” “Leave a comment,” or other small interface phrases.
   TranslatePress scans these so they can also appear translated on your site.
 * To improve your site’s loading speed, you can:
 * First, please check to have the TranslatePress plugin up to date.
 * We recommend you use a caching plugin. Cached pages are not processed on every
   page load. TranslatePress can be resource-intensive with large pages, but it 
   depends on how much HTML content there is on one page.
 * Another performance thing you might want to look for, is that we have a listener
   for Javascript strings that when it detects a text change on the page (say a 
   particular JS script adds a notice), we query the server for a translation. This
   ajax call is also fast as it doesn’t go through the normal WordPress ajax, however,
   it can cause issues when there is a lot of traffic to your website.
 * The good part is that you can disable this functionality from TP Settings -> 
   Advanced tab –> Troubleshooting section –> Disable dynamic translation.
 * Also, the Automatic translation memory can increase the loading time, so be sure
   you disable it from TP Settings –> Advanced tab –> Miscellaneous section for 
   testing purposes.
 * You should also try the Optimize TranslatePress database tables option from TP
   Settings –> Advanced tab –> Debug section to clear them. See if it helps.
 * Otherwise, try to disable the gettext translation using the Disable translation
   for gettext strings option from TP Settings –> Advanced tab –> Debug section.
   One reason may be that you could have many gettext strings translated on your
   site.
 * Please let me know if this changes improve your speed performance.
    -  This reply was modified 5 months, 3 weeks ago by [Daniel](https://wordpress.org/support/users/danieldandu/).

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