PHP / Wordpress - get http requests from a page

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PHP / Wordpress - get http requests from a page

I have a test wordpress intallation on localhost and recently I noticed the administration pages load very slow. Everytime I'm connected to the internet and open the /wp-admin pages it takes 14-15 seconds to load. This does not happen in the front end.

Is there any way to get info about all the http requests that are being made in the page, just like getting the # of queries (get_num_queries)?

[EDIT: New Answer] After OP clarification, here is the changed answer:

You can install xDebug and enable profiler in that. Here is the step-by-step tutorial on how to do that: http://codex.wordpress.org/Testing_WordPress_Performance
This will tell you how much time spent in what part of code.

Old Answer:
I advise you to install Fiddler and get all the HTTP requests made, their responses and time taken.

shamittomar 2010-08-26 13:49:36

i tried it and I can see only image requests, like the ones from gravatar.http requests made with CURL for eg, are not visible...

Alex 2010-08-26 14:11:26

No, cURL requests will not be visible through it. You should have mentioned that earlier.

shamittomar 2010-08-26 14:14:53

@Alex, I have changed the answer. Look at the new solution.

shamittomar 2010-08-26 14:19:44

thank you, I'll try that :D

Alex 2010-08-26 14:33:35

found out the problem. it was actually the object-cache plugin which was slowing down the site. and the weird thing is that it wasn't even enabled...it seems that this plugin disables transients in wordpress, so the update check was made every time you opened a page, because there wasn't any transient set containing the last update info

Alex 2010-08-26 15:01:55

+1 A:

What do you mean by http requests? You mean requested resources like images and such? Those you can see using a tool like Firebug's "Net tab".

Not sure whether there's much that can be done on that level, though. Wordpress is rather slow and fat - the fate of every web application that becomes more and more complex....

If you have no root privileges on the server your hosting runs on (to e.g. install an opcode cache like APC) the Wordpress back-ends slowness can be best helped by using Google Gears (see the "Turbo" button in your backend).

Pekka 2010-08-26 13:50:19

i'm sorry i should have mentioned - http requests to other sites from where wp fetches data. for eg. from time to time, WP checks for updates, and for this it makes a request to wp.org. When this happens the page takes a little more to load, since it waits for the data to be retrieved... My problem is that these kind of requests are made every time a page is loaded, not occasionally, so I want to find out to what site they are made :)

Alex 2010-08-26 13:56:49

@Alex ah, I see! No, I don't know a generic function to find out the number of those. But I doubt whether they are the reason for the slowness... However, you should be able to turn off the constant checking for updates somehow, shouldn't you? Maybe there's even a plugin for that?

Pekka 2010-08-26 14:01:30

if you use Chrome you can use the developer-view or you can install firebug for Firefox

2010-08-26 13:54:10

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