There is a wider issue of an external google font issue with mobiles/cells with this plugin which sadly impacts a site core vital statistics (becoming a big issue now with SEO).. this was first brought up 7 months ago, and sadly not been resolved to date. As for the plugin load times, nearly all wordpress plugins have a process time attached, and wordpress is prone as a result to long first byte times – even with hardly any plugins used on a site at all.
My suggestion to yourself is use a decent wordpress cache system.
As for the rating plugin.. on my sites actually find it one of the fastest for execution, but on a page load speed test analysis, hits the issue of javascript referenced google fonts.
F12 plugin profile test on loading a single article with rating attached – the rating plugin is right at the bottom.. one of the fastest of plugins loaded at run-time.
Themes Core:0.3370s
WordPress Core Core:0.2433s
f12-profiler Core:0.0465s
widget-logic Core:0.0413s
wordpress-seo Core:0.0267s
hormone-website-extensions Core:0.0115s
contact-form-7 Core:0.0038s
responsive-menu Core:0.0025s
gdpr-cookie-compliance Core:0.0013s
stops-core-theme-and-plugin-updates Core:0.0008s
blogger Core:0.0006s
twitter-facebook-google-plusone-share Core:0.0001s
mp3-jplayer Core:0.0001s
limit-modified-date Core:0.0001s
wordpress-seo-premium Core:0.0001s
wp-piwik Core:0.0001s
wp-fastest-cache Core:0.0001s
rate-my-post Core:0.0001s`
@platinumshore the plugin doesn’t use google font, but a custom font for icons such as stars, social media icons etc. Since version 3.3.3 the font is preloaded.
@cayun I don’t see any heavy queries in the plugin but it would be helpful if you can provide more info on which query impacts your website.
Regards,
Blaz
ok.. will edit my post.. mean’t this one..
XXXXX/wp-content/plugins/rate-my-post/public/css/fonts/ratemypost.woff?9e18pt
but notice in latest release now pre-loaded..
But as you say isn’t a google font.. my bad.
sadly unable to edit my previous post.. but you are right.. mean that .woff font above… which is now pre-loaded. Thanks for doing it too.