Title: WordPress API's and admin loading time
Last modified: August 30, 2016

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# WordPress API's and admin loading time

 *  [jawes](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jawes/)
 * (@jawes)
 * [10 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-apis-and-admin-loading-time/)
 * Hi,
 * api.wordpress.org is increasing loading time of admin dramatically.
    I have installed
   Query monitor and found 4 WP API calls which increased loading time by 6 seconds
   in the backend.
 * [https://api.wordpress.org/core/version-check/1.7/?version=4.3.1](https://api.wordpress.org/core/version-check/1.7/?version=4.3.1)
   
   [https://api.wordpress.org/plugins/update-check/1.1/](https://api.wordpress.org/plugins/update-check/1.1/)
   [https://api.wordpress.org/themes/update-check/1.1/](https://api.wordpress.org/themes/update-check/1.1/)
   [https://api.wordpress.org/plugins/update-check/1.1/](https://api.wordpress.org/plugins/update-check/1.1/)
 * Any idea how this can be resolved without loosing the update functionality?

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 *  Thread Starter [jawes](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jawes/)
 * (@jawes)
 * [10 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-apis-and-admin-loading-time/#post-6825012)
 * Also cron is taking a full second.
 *  [Marcio Marim](https://wordpress.org/support/users/marciomarim/)
 * (@marciomarim)
 * [10 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-apis-and-admin-loading-time/#post-6825336)
 * Any updates?
 *  [Pressjitsu](https://wordpress.org/support/users/pressjitsu/)
 * (@pressjitsu)
 * [10 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-apis-and-admin-loading-time/#post-6825337)
 * In a regular WordPress install update checks should be cached for 12 hours. If
   that’s not happening for you and you’re seeing these requests on *every* admin
   page load, then something is preventing them from being cached, could be your
   theme, could be a plugin, could be a server configuration.
 * With regards to cron, indeed spawning it will take up a second, but note that
   it should not be spawned on every request. I recommend you look into using your
   system’s crond to invoke cron, and disable WordPress from spawning it via a wp-
   config.php directive:
 *     ```
       define( 'DISABLE_WP_CRON', 'true' );
       ```
   

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 * [admin](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/admin/)
 * [api](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/api/)

 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
 * 3 replies
 * 3 participants
 * Last reply from: [Pressjitsu](https://wordpress.org/support/users/pressjitsu/)
 * Last activity: [10 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-apis-and-admin-loading-time/#post-6825337)
 * Status: not resolved

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