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Figuring out slow PHP performance caused by loops using Xdebug

April 29, 2020 Dave Hilditch Case Studies, Performance Analysis WordPress Speed, Xdebug 1

I use Xdebug regularly to help clients figure out why their PHP processes are consuming all the CPU. If you haven’t tried it yet, I have an old article covering how to install and configure Xdebug. In the example below, the object cache is in use, and you can see from the Query Monitor plugin […]

Profiling WordPress PHP code using Xprofiler

July 26, 2016 Dave Hilditch Performance Analysis Datafeedr, Performance Analysis, Xdebug 15

There are a multitude of profilers available for WordPress but they all fail in some way to provide the real results you need. Query Monitor, for example, is fantastic for profiling database queries, which is normally where performance problems come from, but it lets you down a little when it comes to finding out which […]