Overview
Performance of Page Generator Pro’s generation routines depends on several factors including, but not limited to:
- Server Configuration
- Plugins Activated
- Dynamic Elements and Dynamic Featured Image
- Spintax
- Number of Keywords and Terms
- Generate System (Browser, Server, CLI)
Server Configuration
For good performance, ensure your hosting meets the minimum Hosting Requirements.
For best performance, ensure your hosting is a dedicated VPS running:
- WordPress 5.4+
- nginx 1.14.0+
- PHP 7.2+
- MySQL 5.7.30+
- 4 vCPUs
- 8GB RAM
- WP-CLI 2.4.0
Plugins Activated
For each generated Page, WordPress effectively loads its Theme and active Plugins. However, many of these Plugins don’t need to be active for the purpose of generation.
Enabling the Performance Addon will safely deactivate unnecessary Plugins whilst generation takes place. This does not impact site visitors or other WordPress Users; activated Plugins will load for them.
Dynamic Elements and Featured Image
When using any Page Generator Pro Dynamic Elements, excluding Related Links, or the Featured Image functionality, and the element/image is configured to request data from a third party source (such as Wikipedia, Yelp, Youtube, Pexels or Pixabay), the Generation process may take a few seconds or longer for each Page. This is because Page Generator Pro converts the dynamic output into actual HTML output, querying the third party services 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.
Example Performance: Basic Content Group
Server Configuration
| Item | Specification |
|---|---|
| Hosting Provider | DigitalOcean |
| vCPUs | 4 |
| Memory | 8GB |
| SSD | 20GB |
| Web Server | nginx 1.14.0 (Ubuntu 18.04.4 LTS) |
| PHP | 7.2.24 |
| MySQL | 5.6 |
| WordPress | 5.4.1 |
| Active Plugins | Classic Editor Page Generator Pro Yoast SEO |
| Active Theme | 2019 Theme |
Keyword Configuration
A total of 57,352 Pages will be generated.
| Keyword | Terms |
|---|---|
| {location} | All Cities, Regions and Counties in TN, USA (7,169), generated from the Generate Locations functionality |
| {service} | Bathroom Design and Planning Bathroom Installations Bathroom Remodelling Bathroom Plumbing Bathroom Shower Installation Bathroom Bath Installation Bathroom Flooring Installation Bathroom Underfloor Heating Installation |
Content Group Configuration
| Item | Value |
|---|---|
| Title | {service} in {location(city_name)}, {location(county_name)}, {location(region_name)} |
| Content | See https://gist.githubusercontent.com/n7studios/8e8fe6074d325b559ec4962a055b102d/raw/b4f81e7060d06ade8e7c51def60c83a61dc3891a/page-generator-pro-tutorial-content.htm |
| Permalink | {service}-{location(city_name)}-{location(county_name)}-{location(region_name)} |
| Post Type | Page |
| Status | Publish |
| Date | Now |
| Method | All |
| Spin Content | No |
| Overwrite | Yes, if existing Page generated by this Group |
| Overwrite Sections | (enable all choices) |
Results: Generate via Browser
| Metric | Value |
|---|---|
| Average Time per Generated Page | 0.04 seconds |
| Total Time to Generate all Pages | 2,294 seconds (approx. 38 minutes) |
| Total Pages Generated | 57,352 |
| Memory Usage | 6MB |
| Peak Memory Usage | 6MB |
Results: Generate via WP-CLI
| Metric | Value |
|---|---|
| Average Time per Generated Page | 0.035 seconds |
| Total Time to Generate all Pages | 2007 seconds (approx. 34 minutes) |
| Total Pages Generated | 57,352 |
| Memory Usage | 38MB |
| Peak Memory Usage | 39MB |
Example Performance: Content Group with Spintax
Adding to the Basic Content Group example above, the following changes are made:
Content Group Configuration
| Item | Value |
|---|---|
| Content | See https://gist.githubusercontent.com/n7studios/8e8fe6074d325b559ec4962a055b102d/raw/9b71d9976b67b602f00787d36d1dfbcb7bfb26fe/page-generator-pro-tutorial-content-edited-2.htm |
Results: Generate via Browser
| Metric | Value |
|---|---|
| Average Time per Generated Page | 0.04 seconds |
| Total Time to Generate all Pages | 2,294 seconds (approx. 38 minutes) |
| Total Pages Generated | 57,352 |
| Memory Usage | 6MB |
| Peak Memory Usage | 6MB |
Results: Generate via WP-CLI
| Metric | Value |
|---|---|
| Average Time per Generated Page | 0.035 seconds |
| Total Time to Generate all Pages | 2007 seconds (approx. 34 minutes) |
| Total Pages Generated | 57,352 |
| Memory Usage | 38MB |
| Peak Memory Usage | 39MB |
Example Performance: Content Group with Spintax and Dynamic Elements
Adding to the Spintax Content Group example above, the following changes are made:
Content Group Configuration
| Item | Value |
|---|---|
| Content | Added Pixabay Image and Google Map. See https://gist.githubusercontent.com/n7studios/8e8fe6074d325b559ec4962a055b102d/raw/9b71d9976b67b602f00787d36d1dfbcb7bfb26fe/page-generator-pro-tutorial-content-edited-3.htm |
Results: Generate via Browser
| Metric | Value |
|---|---|
| Average Time per Generated Page | 1.91 seconds |
| Total Time to Generate all Pages | 109,542 seconds (approx. 30.5 hours) |
| Total Pages Generated | 57,352 |
| Memory Usage | 6MB |
| Peak Memory Usage | 6MB |
Results: Generate via WP-CLI
| Metric | Value |
|---|---|
| Average Time per Generated Page | 1.40 seconds |
| Total Time to Generate all Pages | 74,557 seconds (approx. 21 hours) |
| Total Pages Generated | 57,352 |
| Memory Usage | 38MB |
| Peak Memory Usage | 40MB |
Example Performance: Content Group using Spintax, Elementor Page Builder
Adding to the Spintax Content Group example above, the following changes are made:
Content Group Configuration
| Item | Value |
|---|---|
| Plugins | Installed and activated Elementor Page Builder 2.9.8 |
| Content | See https://gist.githubusercontent.com/n7studios/8e8fe6074d325b559ec4962a055b102d/raw/9b71d9976b67b602f00787d36d1dfbcb7bfb26fe/page-generator-pro-tutorial-content-edited-2.htm |
Results: Generate via Browser
| Metric | Value |
|---|---|
| Average Time per Generated Page | 0.05 seconds |
| Total Time to Generate all Pages | 2,867 seconds (approx. 48 minutes) |
| Total Pages Generated | 57,352 |
| Memory Usage | 7MB |
| Peak Memory Usage | 7MB |
Results: Generate via WP-CLI
| Metric | Value |
|---|---|
| Average Time per Generated Page | 0.04 seconds |
| Total Time to Generate all Pages | 2,294 seconds (approx. 38 minutes) |
| Total Pages Generated | 57,352 |
| Memory Usage | 41MB |
| Peak Memory Usage | 43MB |
Example Performance: Content Group using Spintax, Elementor Page Builder with Performance Addon
Adding to the Spintax Content Group example above, the following changes are made:
Content Group Configuration
| Item | Value |
|---|---|
| Page Generator Pro > Settings > Generate | Use Performance Addon = Yes |
| Content | See https://gist.githubusercontent.com/n7studios/8e8fe6074d325b559ec4962a055b102d/raw/9b71d9976b67b602f00787d36d1dfbcb7bfb26fe/page-generator-pro-tutorial-content-edited-2.htm |
Results: Generate via Browser
| Metric | Value |
|---|---|
| Average Time per Generated Page | 0.04 seconds |
| Total Time to Generate all Pages | 2,294 seconds (approx. 38 minutes) |
| Total Pages Generated | 57,352 |
| Memory Usage | 5MB |
| Peak Memory Usage | 5MB |
Results: Generate via WP-CLI
| Metric | Value |
|---|---|
| Average Time per Generated Page | 0.04 seconds |
| Total Time to Generate all Pages | 2,294 seconds (approx. 38 minutes) |
| Total Pages Generated | 57,352 |
| Memory Usage | 41MB |
| Peak Memory Usage | 43MB |