Linux and PHP web application support and development (Bromsgrove, UK)

Joomla Plugin Caching

March 24, 2014, palepurple, performance, php, , 0

Today we received an email along the lines of :

“Help! A customer’s website is slow and they’re complaining it’s taking over 2 seconds to load!”

Starting with just inspecting a page load in Chrome showed that the rendering of the PHP side of the page was a main bottleneck (taking between 1.5 and 3 seconds).

A quick rummage and analysis through Xdebug‘s profiler showed each request to the home page was dependent on a curl/http connection.

xdebug output

xdebug output – note the big blue box

Further investigation took us to mod_jmtwitterroll to which we added some crude caching – to stop each request to the site was being dependent on twitter’s response time.

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