The Social MarketPlace solution has been around for over a year now and has become one of our most popular products and certainly a very popular choice for starting a MarketPlace site on WordPress.
In recent weeks, some of our customers have seen a growth in their Social MarketPlace powered sites, requiring improvements in performance and scalability.
We’ve listened to the feedback and have put a focus on improving the solution’s performance for better scalability.
It is important to note that the performance and scalability of your site is not solely dependent on the theme you are using. The theme is just one aspect.
Other aspects such as server setup, CDN, caching and others are just as important, if not more important.
Performance Improvements
We have made several improvements to the theme including improvements to the queries, DB calls, data caching etc…
This has resulted in a major increase in performance as we were able to demonstrate, in the tests below.
Tests, Tools and Environment
To demonstrate the performance improvements, we have chosen to test and compare other themes as well as the old version vs the new version of Social MarketPlace.
Themes we compared
- Social MarketPlace v. 1.4.2 (the previous version)
- Social MarketPlace v. 1.5 (the new version)
- StoreFront
- Kleo
Tests we performed
We focused on two main tests:
- The first test was for the load speed. This was done using Pingdom.
- Then, we’ve performed stress testing using loader.io by simulating sending a number of users to the site at once.
It is important here to note that stress testing is a deliberate attempt to break the system. In this case, we are sending a large amount of traffic at once.
Your server configuration will play a major role in how the system behaves under stress testing.
Server Configuration
We have tested all these themes on the exact same server configuration.
We have used an amazon t2.micro instance with the following settings:
- Database : 15.1 Distrib 10.1.24-MariaDB.
- Webserver : nginx/1.10.3
- OS : Ubuntu 16.04.2 LTS
- PHP : 7.0
Enabled Plugins
We have also enabled the exact same plugins for each test.
Following is the list of plugins enabled:
- MarketPlace (This plugin was only enabled in the test of Social MarketPlace)
- bbPress
- BP Remove Profile Links
- BuddyPress
- Color Filters for WooCommerce
- Newsletter
- WC Vendors
- WC Vendors Pro
- WooCommerce
- WPBakery Visual Composer
Pages Tested
For each theme, we have tested the following pages. These are key MarketPlace pages that are very similar in content, across sites.
- Shop Page
- Profile Page
- Product Page
Test Results
MarketPlace 1.4.2 (with OneSocial 1.3.1) – Current Version
Load speed test, with Pingdom:
- Shop Page – 2.69s
- Profile Page – 2.59s
- Product Page – 2.66s
Stress testing, with Loader.io:
- Shop Page – 3 Success, 3 Timeout, Failed in 22s
- Profile Page – 6 Success, 4 Timeout, Failed in 25s
- Product Page – 6 Success, 7 Timeout, Failed in 30s
MarketPlace 1.5 (with OneSocial 1.4) – Current Version
Load speed test, with Pingdom:
- Shop Page – 1.82s
- Profile Page – 1.95
- Product Page – 1.72s
Stress testing, with Loader.io:
- Shop Page – 70 Success, 0 Timeout, Success
- Profile Page – 70 Success, 0 Timeout, Success
- Product Page – 70 Success, 0 Timeout, Success
StoreFront – Current Version
Load speed test, with Pingdom:
- Shop Page – 2.12s
- Profile Page – 2.18s
- Product Page – 1.52s
Stress testing, with Loader.io:
- Shop Page – 20 Success, 10 Timeout, Failed in 35s
- Profile Page – 70 Success, 0 Timeout, Success
- Product Page – 70 Success, 0 Timeout, Success
Kleo – Current Version
Load speed test, with Pingdom:
- Shop Page – 2.18s
- Profile Page – 2.55s
- Product Page – 1.88s
Stress testing, with Loader.io:
- Shop Page – 5 Success, 6 Timeout, Failed in 22s
- Profile Page – 20 Success, 15 Timeout, Failed in 40s
- Product Page – 15 Success, 14 Timeout, Failed in 35s
Conclusion
As demonstrated by these test results, we were able to make big improvements to the performance of Social Marketplace. In multiple of these tests, Social Marketplace was able to outperform the other themes we’ve compared it to.
We thank everyone who has patiently waited for this upgrade, and we hope we can continue to provide you with the help you need, so you can run successful marketplaces.
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