Title: website slows down with plugin
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# website slows down with plugin

 *  Resolved [darksider59](https://wordpress.org/support/users/darksider59/)
 * (@darksider59)
 * [12 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/website-slows-down-with-plugin/)
 * Hello,
 * I’ve installed the plugin yesterday with the code below in my .htaccess :
 * <filesmatch “.(php|html|css|js)$”>
    SetOutputFilter DEFLATE </filesmatch>
 * But after the install, my website slowed down, I checked with GTmetrix, and a
   page loads now in 13s ! Just before the install, everything was okay.
 * here is a link for exemple : [http://www.gridam.com/2013/09/stephen-elop-25-millions-dollars-transfert/](http://www.gridam.com/2013/09/stephen-elop-25-millions-dollars-transfert/)
 * [http://wordpress.org/plugins/ewww-image-optimizer/](http://wordpress.org/plugins/ewww-image-optimizer/)

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 *  Plugin Author [Shane Bishop](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nosilver4u/)
 * (@nosilver4u)
 * [12 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/website-slows-down-with-plugin/#post-4151687)
 * strange that it would add that much to your page load, unless your site gets 
   a ton of visitors, but I did discover some stuff that would unnecessarily add
   load time to your front-facing pages. I’ve moved it all into the admin with 1.6.2.
   Give that a try and see how things go.
 *  Thread Starter [darksider59](https://wordpress.org/support/users/darksider59/)
 * (@darksider59)
 * [12 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/website-slows-down-with-plugin/#post-4151695)
 * what kind of stuff ?
 *  Plugin Author [Shane Bishop](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nosilver4u/)
 * (@nosilver4u)
 * [12 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/website-slows-down-with-plugin/#post-4151696)
 * Some of the initialization was being done outside of the admin_init hook:
    1.
   checking and installing of the binaries. On my test box, which is kind of old,
   this was mere milliseconds. However, multiply that by every page load, and if
   you’re getting a substantial amount of traffic, I suppose it could add up. 2.
   If you had a cloud API key installed for the plugin, it would verify that on 
   EVERY page load. 3. It also did all the system checks: for exec(), operating 
   system, and safe mode (possibly others I can’t remember off-hand).
 * Most of this was inherited when I forked the plugin a year ago, but I think it
   became a bigger issue with the introduction of the cloud functionality. Although
   if you didn’t have an API key entered, #2 is a moot point and I’m shocked by 
   a 13 second page load. At any rate, it is totally useless to do all that unless
   an admin page is being loaded where we can actually show alerts and such.

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 * Last activity: [12 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/website-slows-down-with-plugin/#post-4151696)
 * Status: resolved