Performance issues when using Cloudflare plugin (Elementor, Etch…)

  • mbaierl

    (@mbaierl)


    1 week, 4 days ago

    When the Cloudflare plugin is active saving posts in Bricks, Elementor, Etch and Gutenberg (and very likely other page builders) is slowing down massively.

    Saving a page or post takes 5-7 seconds instead of 0.5 seconds without the Cloudflare plugin.

    Reason being that the Cloudflare plugin executes about 9 HTTP Request to the Cloudflare API to purge the caches, totaling in the 5-7 seconds delay. That behavior is fine, but it would be much better if these http requests would be queued and executed asynchronously. This would have 0 impact on saving pages/posts, and the cache can be cleared in the background.

    Please fix this performance bug.

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  • Plugin Contributor Remkus de Vries

    (@defries)

    1 week, 4 days ago

    Hi @mbaierl,

    Thanks for letting us know. Improving the cache purge is already on our immediate roadmap as there is indeed a lot of room for improvement, clearing it async is one of those improvements.

    That said, we’re running about a dozen test sites and we’re not seeing these delays on any of the sites, so it’s good to know it’s also highly dependent on what your WordPress stack looks like as well as potentially your WAF and things like that.

    Thread Starter mbaierl

    (@mbaierl)

    1 week, 4 days ago

    🙏 @defries

    Did you also test using Etch and Elementor? In my tests with both the do_action(transition_post_status) executes 9 requests to the CF API, each about 0,7 seconds… 🙁

    Looking forward to a new release that performs these tasks async….

    Plugin Contributor Remkus de Vries

    (@defries)

    1 week, 4 days ago

    Yes, various page builders are in the testing pool 🙂

    Thread Starter mbaierl

    (@mbaierl)

    1 week, 4 days ago

    … and no issues with those 9 API requests? That’s interesting.

    Let me know if there is anything I can help you testing with…

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