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I just gave wpForo a go with a 300K+ forum, imported from bbPress.
The import script went flawless.
Then I loaded tested the bbPress forum versus the wpForo forum.
I simulated 200 users for 1 minute. Here are the results.
bbPress result attached
wpForo average response time was a little less than HALF of bbPress.
However, it still was nowhere close to non-wordpress based forum software so I ran a profile on a page where I was reading a topic.
wpForo executed over 360 SQL queries just for reading a topic.
Compare that to my old phpBB forum which only executes 16.
Although a nice improvement over bbPress, it just doesnt perform fast enough for our clients 🙁
I could run 30 phpBB forums on the same hardware versus wpForo.
I also suspect that because wpForo does not use a unique INTEGER ID in its url's it is forced to run a SQL query against a CHAR column when searching for topics. This is very slow when dealing with a forum that has 300K or 1 million+ posts.
I would suggest tweaking your software to add a unique postID to each URL for much faster queries.
And finally, please reduce the number of queries. Would love to use this software but I need it 10X faster than it is today.
Checked on a query.
"SELECT *
FROM `wp_wpforo_topics`
WHERE `slug` =" /etc
This is where you guys find the post via the slug. The query is surprisingly fast, so I stand corrected. Doesnt seem to be a need for a unique INTEGER in the URL.
It seems the huge number of queries, all which are individually fast, when added together, cause a high load and a sluggish site. > 1 second response time is too slow.
