FV Gravatar Cache WordPress Plugin
Speeds up your website by making sure the gravatars are stored on your website and not loading from the gravatar server.
There's one problem with Gravatars. They are very slow to load. Each page with comments on them makes one call per comment to the Gravatar server. While a single call takes only a 100ms, on a page with hundreds of comments, we are talking about major slowdowns. Page loads can take 20 seconds and more.
This plugin solves this problem by:
caching gravatars with WordPress cron job..
caching gravatars on comment submission
maintaining a single copy of the default gravatar instead of downloading it again and again for all the email addresses with no gravatar associtated
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Usage of FV Gravatar Cache over time
June 2023 — July 2024Between June 2023 and July 2024 the number of sites running this plugin went from 4 to 2 — down 2 (-50%).
| Month | Sites | Change |
|---|---|---|
| July 2024 | 2 | +0 |
| June 2024 | 2 | +0 |
| May 2024 | 2 | +0 |
| April 2024 | 2 | +0 |
| March 2024 | 2 | +0 |
| February 2024 | 2 | +0 |
| January 2024 | 2 | +0 |
| December 2023 | 2 | +0 |
| November 2023 | 2 | +0 |
| October 2023 | 2 | +0 |
| September 2023 | 2 | -1 |
| August 2023 | 3 | +0 |
| July 2023 | 3 | -1 |
| June 2023 | 4 | — |
Sites running FV Gravatar Cache
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