Slow loading times after filtering / sorting with variation swatches

Hi Hakik,

Every product has around 3 – 7 available variations.

And I would say about 70% – 80% of our products are variable products.

I good example of this is https://100procenthardcore.com/merk/100-procent-hardcore/.

How can we speed this up?

Hi Hakik,

I’ve created a testing enviroment  https://100procenthardcore.test01.dunico.nl/merk/100-procent-hardcore/.

In this enviroment I’ve adjusted the archive variation treshold to 10.

I’ve also installed a Redis cache plug-in and setup Redis cache on the server.

The loading times are stil quite slow.

Do you have any other ideas on how to speed this up?

Thanks in advance

Hi Hakik,

I’ve setup the Redis cache from the server side aswell.

Now i’m forcefully trying to cache the filtering (sorting / filtering the same way on the same page) but i see very little difference.

The filtering on the live enviroment is currently unusable for many archive pages so do you have any other ways of speeding this up?

Hi Hakik,

The loading time of the page is indeed good (this is also cached with WPRocket).

But when I sort or filter the products it can take up to 20 seconds to load in.

You can try opening the page and sorting with “Price high to low”.

When sorting or filtering products with variations this takes a long time but when i sort with the variation swatches plug-in disabled it takes between 1 – 3 seconds.

I hope my explanation is clear and of you have any other ideas on increasing the speed.

Hi Hakik,

Filter and sorting load times have indeed been improved (Thank you).

But it is still inconsistent. Sometimes it goes (quick as you displayed with your video).

But sometimes it can stil take op to 5 – 10 seconds for archive pages to load.

This only happens on the archive pages which have Variation Swatches.

I don’t require a workaround I want to fix the loading issue.

Please help me make this more consistent.