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BuddyPress activity stream performance on larger communities

  • @johnackerman

    Participant

    Hi everyone,

    I’m running a BuddyPress-powered site and noticing the activity stream getting slow as user activity grows, even with caching enabled. It starts to feel heavy once groups, friendships, and posts increase.

    How are others keeping BuddyPress fast and scalable while using the core social features?

    Appreciate any insights.

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  • @espellcaste

    Moderator

    I’d love to get more details here. If you have benchmark or more data about the size of the database and queries performed. If you use Query Monitor, you can see a lot about it.

    @johnackerman

    Participant

    Thanks for the suggestion — I’ll run Query Monitor and gather some benchmarks so I can see which queries are slowing the activity stream as things scale. The database has grown quite a bit recently with groups and interactions, so that’s probably a big factor. I’m testing this while building out a community section alongside my own project (smokeycloudz.com), so performance tuning has been a learning process. I’ll share more details once I have some numbers

    @thinlizzie

    Participant

    Hi,

    Not sure if this info is useful for you:

    My site …regular WordPress & Buddypress, VPS hosting, normal specs, 20,000 members, can get very busy.
    Groups are not enabled.

    After sitename/activity page loads, there is always an approximately one second delay before the list of activity items loads, 20 at a time.

    Activity items includes new friendships, new user registrations, bbpress new forum topics & replies, user profile updates, profile picture updates.
    Blog posts are not included.

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