# Activating Gravity Forms increases wp-admin load time

**URL:** <https://community.gravityforms.com/t/activating-gravity-forms-increases-wp-admin-load-time/5477>\
**Category:** Get Help\
**Tags:** signature, performance, stripe\
**Created:** [July 22, 2020, 9:23pm UTC](https://community.gravityforms.com/t/activating-gravity-forms-increases-wp-admin-load-time/5477 "2020-07-22T21:23:48Z")\
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**Author:** ![compassion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a88e57/32.png) [@compassion](https://community.gravityforms.com/u/compassion)\
**Post date:** [July 22, 2020, 9:23pm UTC](https://community.gravityforms.com/t/activating-gravity-forms-increases-wp-admin-load-time/5477/1 "2020-07-22T21:23:48Z")

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Hi folks,

Perhaps someone from the community has encountered and resolved this.  
I have a fresh WordPress instance running on top of Plesk (standard setup: PHP 7.4, Nginx proxying Apache).

I have kept the site very light in terms of plugins however as soon as I activate Gravity Forms (and a few associated addons), the wp-admin load time spikes!

Without GF, wp-admin loads in \<1s  
Once Gravity Forms 2.4.19.1 is activated, this increases load time by an average of 7s  
Once Gravity Forms Coupons 2.10.1 is activated, this increase the load by another average of 7s  
Once Gravity Forms Paypal 3.3 is activated, this increase the load by another average of 6s  
Once Gravity Forms Stripe 3.7 is activated, this increase the load by another 6-10s

So in total once these 4 plugins are activated, each page load takes almost 30s, sometimes even longer, which is insane and making me want to pull my hair out. I have other plugins like Elementor/Astra and their impact on load is negligible. And yes, I have tested with just GF plugins (without all the other plugins) and the impact is the same.

The weird thing I have noticed is that as soon as the Gravity Forms Stripe addon is activated, in my Apache access logs I start to see `POST /wp-admin/admin-ajax.php HTTP/1.0`

I’m not blaming this on GF of course, if it was an issue with GF then we’d have 1000s of people complaining. I’d just like to know if anyone else has encountered and resolved such a conundrum.

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**Author:** ![compassion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a88e57/32.png) [@compassion](https://community.gravityforms.com/u/compassion)\
**Post date:** [July 24, 2020, 12:56pm UTC](https://community.gravityforms.com/t/activating-gravity-forms-increases-wp-admin-load-time/5477/2 "2020-07-24T12:56:50Z")

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I just performed a fresh install of Wordpress on a completely fresh server (t3.small from AWS EC2). After activating Gravity Forms, load time spikes to ~4s, and after the other 3 plugins it takes about 15-20s to load many wp-admin pages. 🤯 🤯 🤯 🤯 🤯 🤯 🤯 🤯

This needs some deep, deep digging. I shall resume investigating tomorrow perhaps.

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**Author:** ![ibay2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/c37758/32.png) [@ibay2](https://community.gravityforms.com/u/ibay2)\
**Post date:** [February 15, 2021, 4:40pm UTC](https://community.gravityforms.com/t/activating-gravity-forms-increases-wp-admin-load-time/5477/3 "2021-02-15T16:40:54Z")

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Hi. Have you found a fix for this issue yet?

I’m having the same problems.

Only difference is the GF Addons I have installed: (3)  
Chained Select  
Zapier  
And obviously Gravity Forms

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**Author:** ![richardw8k](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/community.gravityforms.com/richardw8k/32/2354_2.png) [@richardw8k](https://community.gravityforms.com/u/richardw8k)\
**Post date:** [January 4, 2022, 5:46pm UTC](https://community.gravityforms.com/t/activating-gravity-forms-increases-wp-admin-load-time/5477/4 "2022-01-04T17:46:46Z")

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