Use Xdebug to profile PHP
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The document discusses the use of Xdebug for profiling PHP in WordPress, highlighting its importance for identifying performance bottlenecks and recommending practices for developers to enhance site speed. It emphasizes the need for effective database management and proper API handling to avoid slowdowns, and provides various resources and tips for improving WordPress performance. The document also includes test results demonstrating the speed of WordPress sites hosted with Seravo compared to competitors.
Use Xdebug to profile PHP
- 1. Use Xdebug to profile PHP
- 2. Premium hosting and upkeep for WordPress HTTP/2 TESTED UPDATES 24/7 UPKEEP
- 3. Top-notch performance A comparison published by a Google employee at ismyhostfastyet.com confirms that Seravo’s customer sites load faster than competing services’. The study used time-to-first-byte (TTFB) measurement data from real users as collected from the Chrome browser UX data. Fast/Average/Slow TTFB by WordPress Host
- 4. Seravo recommends Xdebug ● Xdebug is open source: github.com/xdebug/xdebug ● Embraced by the PHP community ● Plenty of features: profiling, stack traces, debugging.. ● Included in Linux distributions, easy to install ● Pre-installed in many development environments ○ Varying Vagrant Vagrants (for WordPress core contributors) ■ xdebug_on ○ Seravo WordPress Vagrant and Docker images (for Seravo’s customers) ■ wp-xdebug-on
- 5. What on earth is PHP doing?! Finding the code bottlenecks is hard without proper tools. Solution: ● Profile PHP code with Xdebug ● Browse results with Webgrind ● Visualize code path with Gprof2dot and Dot
- 6. All WordPress site developers should learn Xdebug It is easy!
- 7. Very easy with Seravo WordPress dev ● Enable by running: wp-xdebug-on ● Run profiler on any URL easily by appending one parameter ○ E.g. https://wordpress.local/?XDEBUG_PROFILE ● Files are generated at /tmp/cachegrind.out.x.y.z ● Browse results with Webgrind ○ E.g. http://wordpress.local/.seravo/webgrind/ Documentation at seravo.com/docs/development/xdebug/
- 8. DEMO
- 9. Typical issues: database Typically developers don’t test their plugins with large amounts of data and they work well on small sites. As sites grow, all problems related to excess data manipulation become visible. Solution: ● Inject more data on a test site and see how it behaves. ● In code, don’t fetch everything from the database. Remember LIMIT in SQL and posts_per_page in WP_Query. ● Design code to fetch only what is needed for the view, nothing else.
- 10. Switch to Polylang for faster page loads
- 11. Typical issues: HTTP requests External API calls in PHP typically also block the entire site from loading if the external API is down. Solution: ● Review use of wp_remote_get(), fopen() and similar ● Store result and avoid re-fetching it all the time using WP Transients API
- 12. Use WP Transients API Store the result of a heavy/slow computation to avoid having to do it all the time (e.g. HTTP requests or heavy database queries): More at: seravo.com/blog/faster-wordpress-with-transients/ and developer.wordpress.org/apis/handbook/transients/
- 13. Extra helper: wp-speed-test vagrant@development:~$ wp-speed-test Testing speed URL https://wordpress.local... For an explanation of the different times, please see docs at https://curl.haxx.se/docs/manpage.html URL TOTAL NAMELOOKUP CONNECT APPCONNECT PRETRANSFER STARTTRANSFER = AVG https://wordpress.local 0.179 0.004 0.004 0.014 0.014 0.179 0.179 https://wordpress.local 0.154 0.000 0.000 0.000 0.000 0.154 0.167 https://wordpress.local 0.157 0.000 0.000 0.000 0.000 0.157 0.164 https://wordpress.local 0.167 0.000 0.000 0.000 0.000 0.167 0.164 https://wordpress.local 0.163 0.000 0.000 0.000 0.000 0.162 0.169 https://wordpress.local 0.147 0.000 0.000 0.000 0.000 0.147 0.168 https://wordpress.local 0.169 0.000 0.000 0.000 0.000 0.169 0.168 https://wordpress.local 0.178 0.000 0.000 0.000 0.000 0.178 0.168 https://wordpress.local 0.167 0.000 0.000 0.000 0.000 0.167 0.168 Test completed. If the values seems too high, please profile your PHP code to find potential bottlenecks. Note that this test tells how fast your site is in the sense of how long it takes for PHP to generate the HTML output. To test how much load the site can handle, run wp-load-test.
- 14. Hunt for random slowness $ wp-speed-test https://wordpress.local/hello-world/?XDEBUG_PROFILE Testing speed URL https://wordpress.local/hello-world/?XDEBUG_PROFILE... For an explanation of the different times, please see docs at https://curl.haxx.se/docs/manpage.html URL TOTAL NAMELOOKUP CONNECT APPCONNECT PRETRANSFER STARTTRANSFER = AVG https://wordpress.local/hel... 0.637 0.004 0.004 0.013 0.013 0.636 0.637 https://wordpress.local/hel... 0.469 0.000 0.000 0.000 0.000 0.468 0.553 https://wordpress.local/hel... 0.512 0.000 0.000 0.000 0.000 0.511 0.539 https://wordpress.local/hel... 0.484 0.000 0.000 0.000 0.000 0.483 0.525 https://wordpress.local/hel... 0.483 0.000 0.000 0.000 0.000 0.482 0.517 https://wordpress.local/hel... 0.556 0.000 0.000 0.000 0.000 0.555 0.524 https://wordpress.local/hel... 0.910 0.000 0.000 0.000 0.000 0.908 0.640 https://wordpress.local/hel... 0.496 0.000 0.000 0.000 0.000 0.495 0.633 https://wordpress.local/hel... 0.475 0.000 0.000 0.000 0.000 0.474 0.625 16 MB
- 15. Always remember to measure before and after!
- 17. Lots of tips out there! The database is often the performance bottleneck. See my other talk on WordPress and database optimization: More in-depth code profiling tips in my WordPress performance talk: wordpress.tv/?s=otto+kekäläinen
- 18. See also Make Your Site Faster with Caching https://seravo.com/blog/wordpress-cache/ 300% faster WordPress load times with transients https://seravo.com/blog/faster-wordpress-with-transients/ 5 common reasons why your WordPress site is slow https://youtu.be/8sJExUO-U4A Improving WordPress Performance with XDebug and PHP Profiling https://youtu.be/oKcIS5A-6_c
- 19. Thank you! Seravo.com @Seravo @ottokekalainen