When using any Page Generator Pro Shortcodes, the Generation process may take a few seconds or longer for each Page. Page Generator Pro converts the shortcode into actual HTML output, querying the third party services (Google, Wikipedia, Yelp, YouTube etc) to insert the actual contents into each Page.
This ensures that the resulting Page does not dynamically query these third party services every time your site visitor views the generated Page. Doing so would result in the page taking a long time to load for every single visitor (and, in turn, affect your rankings on SERPs).
By taking a one time performance hit on slower page generation, the performance of your generated Pages for SERPs and all site visitors is dramatically increased, ensuring better rankings.
Due to this, you may wish to generate content in smaller batches – for example, 500 Pages at a time. This can be achieved using the Number of Posts and Resume Index options, which are documented.
Example Performance
| Item | Specification |
|---|---|
| Processor | Intel Core i5 8th Generation at 2.3Ghz |
| Memory | 8GB |
| SSD | 128GB |
| Web Server | nginx 1.10.1 |
| PHP | 7.2.0 |
| MySQL | 5.6 |
| WordPress | 5.0.3 |
| Active Plugins | Page Generator Pro |
| Active Theme | 2019 Theme |
Keyword used:
| Keyword | Term |
|---|---|
| {location} | B1 1AY, Birmingham |
| {location(zipcode)} | B1 1AY |
| {location(city_name)} | Birmingham |
Example Generation Times when using each Shortcode:
| Shortcode | Shortcode Syntax | Example Generation Time (seconds) |
|---|---|---|
| Google Maps | [page-generator-pro-google-map term=”” location=”{location(zipcode)}” height=”250″ zoom=”14″ maptype=”roadmap”] | 0.03 |
| Unsplash | [page-generator-pro-unsplash term=”{location(city_name)}” size=”raw” orientation=”” alt_tag=”{location(city_name)}, {location(zipcode)}”] | 3.61 |
| Wikipedia | [page-generator-pro-wikipedia term=”{location(city_name)}” language=”en”] | 1.97 |
| Yelp | [page-generator-pro-yelp term=”restaurants” location=”{location(zipcode)}” limit=”3″] | 1.24 |
| YouTube | [page-generator-pro-youtube term=”{location(city_name)}” location=””] | 0.55 |
Therefore, if all 5 shortcodes were to be used, a generation time of 7.4 seconds would be reasonable.
However, this is purely a guide, and not to be used as a benchmark or comparison. Your performance will vary, due to a variety of factors including server performance, connection speed and the number of shortcodes used. Whilst we are happy to investigate edge cases (e.g. generation times of 30 seconds per page plus), please don’t use the figures quoted here as a comparison or expectation.
We are also unable to advise on precisely how long pages will take to generate, and how many should be generated at a time.