Results & Lessons Learned: From 20s to 3.6s Response Time
Introduction We’ve reached the final post in this 5-part case study. Let’s recap the journey: Part 1: Discovered critical migration bugs causing database corruption and memory exhaustion Part 2: Set up comprehensive load testing with Grafana K6 to measure...
The Optimization Playbook: 7 Fixes That Reduced Response Time by 83%
Introduction In Part 3 of this series, we identified the exact bottlenecks killing our WooCommerce site’s performance: WC Global Product Order plugin – 4x meta JOIN adding 4.82 seconds per query 236 duplicate queries – Wasting 43% of database time...
Finding the Bottleneck: Database Query Analysis
Introduction In Part 2 of this series, we set up comprehensive load testing with Grafana K6 and discovered shocking performance metrics: 23-second response times at 95th percentile 23% error rate under moderate load Exponential degradation with concurrent users...
Load Testing a WooCommerce Site: A K6 Case Study
Introduction In Part 1 of this series, we fixed critical migration bugs that were preventing our client’s WooCommerce site from functioning properly. The database corruption was resolved, memory limits were increased, and all plugin conflicts were eliminated....









