Our landing page was taking 6 seconds to load on most sites , as much as 12 on some internet speeds. To put in perspective- taking over 3 seconds results in MASSIVE customer drop-off. (you can test yours here: https://tools.pingdom.com/)
I looked at bunch of forum solutions and none of them really seemed to apply or help much. Then I realized we had test plugins and several unused plugins in our list of plugins.
Tip: NEVER use test plugins live; get rid of all unnecessary plugins. The test plugins brought us from 6 seconds to 3, and the getting rid of 4 other plugins brought us down to 2 seconds.
Obvious? For some. But an important thing to pay attention to.
Actually now that i think about it, the second speed up with getting rid of the 4 plugins- one of those was also a test plugin, the others were all variants of rich text editor plugins.
As of yet, I have no exact numbers on what plugins slow down to what extent but am far more aware of it then ever after this experience for test ones especially (test ones being ones we build and haven’t published)
This important to know that some plugins also load stuff on all page, not just on the page you are using it and this can lead to issue and slow down too.
Hum this is a good question.
For free plugin, you have access to plugin editor code. Check the “Shared” tabs, Header section.
A known example: Bubble Plugin Editor - Tagger
Everything that is in the shared header will be loaded on all pages even if the element is not on the page.
Thank you. This is very helpful.
I feel Bubble should provide paid plugin developers a way to disclose this. May be a checkmark just like category of plugin.
I confirm that you shouldn’t use plugin in development/test version in production, it does slow down things considerably as we can’t cache a version that is constantly changing. We have a few warnings here and there in the editor, but great to surface this here. Thanks.
