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Amazon plugins cause slow loading?

by Dana_W
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I am getting ready to create an Amazon affiliate site, and I was considering using an Amazon plugin, but then I saw it mentioned on here that they cause websites to load slowly. Does anyone have any insight on this? If they are going to make a site load slowly, I'd rather pay my wordpress person extra to just hand-design the site, if necessary.

Or if anyone knows any good wordpress Amazon templates, free or paid, I am open to that as well.
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  • Profile picture of the author webdango
    I'm not sure which Amazon plugin you mean, but Reviewazon has a caching feature. Amazon's TOS dont' allow caching for more than 24 hours, so it gets refreshed once a day.

    I find that this caching, along with setting up Wordpress to cache as well, speeds up stuff considerably.
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    • Profile picture of the author Dana_W
      Originally Posted by webdango View Post

      I'm not sure which Amazon plugin you mean, but Reviewazon has a caching feature. Amazon's TOS dont' allow caching for more than 24 hours, so it gets refreshed once a day.

      I find that this caching, along with setting up Wordpress to cache as well, speeds up stuff considerably.
      I'm pretty sure that the person here on the WF had Reviewazon and they said that their site loaded slowly.
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  • Profile picture of the author IMNewbieBlog
    Many plugins can slow down load times and the more plugins you install the slower the site will load.

    The first plugin you should install is WP Super Cache. This will speed up load time for you page.
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    • Profile picture of the author Dana_W
      Originally Posted by IMNewbieBlog View Post

      Many plugins can slow down load times and the more plugins you install the slower the site will load.

      The first plugin you should install is WP Super Cache. This will speed up load time for you page.
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  • Profile picture of the author webdango
    Yeah, Reviewazon slows it down - highly recommend you use Reviewazon's bult in cache feature....
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  • Profile picture of the author Dana_W
    If the plugins slow it down, would it make more sense to spend a little extra money up front and just have a wordpress template designed specifically to be an Amazon review site?
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    • Profile picture of the author nichewebstrategies
      ReviewAZON uses the Amazon web services to pull data down and display that data in your blog. Having said that, there are a number of issues that can affect speed.

      Some of the issues were related to just having too many Wordpress plug-ins running on a particular blog. More is not better when it comes to Wordpress plug-ins and some of those free plug-ins are not coded very well which can degrade performance and even kill your blog in some cases.

      Other issues included bandwidth throttling by hosting providers and slow servers in general. Hosting providers will limit the number of calls a plug-in is making if it is using up resources on the server.

      ReviewAZON has call caching built in and can reduce the number calls made to the Amazon web service which will always increase speed. In version 2 coming out soon, I've made many more call reducing enhancements that will make things much faster.

      The key is to reduce the number of calls. Whenever you have to make a call to a remote server that isn't on your network to return data, there is a chance of latency.

      Hope this helps.

      Best,

      Brad
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      • Profile picture of the author Dana_W
        I want to have the SEO Allinone Plugin thingie, and a spam filter plugin. I think that's it. Hopefully that isn't too much.

        Is the Reviewazon plugin sort of like plugging in adsense code to a site?


        Originally Posted by nichewebstrategies View Post

        ReviewAZON uses the Amazon web services to pull data down and display that data in your blog. Having said that, there are a number of issues that can affect speed.

        Some of the issues were related to just having too many Wordpress plug-ins running on a particular blog. More is not better when it comes to Wordpress plug-ins and some of those free plug-ins are not coded very well which can degrade performance and even kill your blog in some cases.

        Other issues included bandwidth throttling by hosting providers and slow servers in general. Hosting providers will limit the number of calls a plug-in is making if it is using up resources on the server.

        ReviewAZON has call caching built in and can reduce the number calls made to the Amazon web service which will always increase speed. In version 2 coming out soon, I've made many more call reducing enhancements that will make things much faster.

        The key is to reduce the number of calls. Whenever you have to make a call to a remote server that isn't on your network to return data, there is a chance of latency.

        Hope this helps.

        Best,

        Brad
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