Slow response from WordPress sites

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Hi Michal,

I have been using SkipFish a bit, and I notice that anytime I hit a WP site it 
slows to a crawl and can impact the WP site. I assume this is on the WP side 
and not your scanner. Do you have any tips for options to pass in when scanning 
WordPress to improve throughput / lessen impact?

Thanks!

Original issue reported on code.google.com by Charlie....@gmail.com on 16 Feb 2011 at 1:33

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WP Super Cache. If you set it up to up to use mod_rewrite, most static pages 
are served by Apache directly instead of the full PHP and database queries song 
and dance.
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-super-cache/

It won't really help if you're testing mostly logged in user actions, but it 
will make non-logged in user views lightning quick.

Note that depending on your settings these plugins can mask problems due to the 
caching.  "Cache rebuild" option should probably be turned off for that reason 
when testing.

Original comment by steve.pi...@gmail.com on 16 Feb 2011 at 3:19

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I am not particularly familiar with WP, and can't offer you meaningful advice. 
If you have a large installation, you may want to exclude repeated or largely 
similar content with -X.

Original comment by lcam...@gmail.com on 20 Feb 2011 at 6:08

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