Hi @2fishone
Thanks so much for the kind review! You’re right that any authentication plugin adds a small amount of overhead, since it needs to process an additional verification step on login.
A few things that can help if you’re seeing a speed impact:
- Lighthouse measures page load performance, but Two Factor only runs during the login process — so it shouldn’t affect the speed of your public-facing pages. It’s worth double-checking whether the slowdown is on the login page specifically or on the site overall.
- If you’re seeing slowness on the front end, it’s worth checking whether another plugin or theme change coincided with the activation.
I did run a before/after Lighthouse test (with using Query Monitor) on the home page of a test website and couldn’t find anything from two-factor that could potentially cause this additional load.
Do you have more information for us so we can check this deeper?
thanks for your reply, can u show me what kind of info do u need to check further? i was having issues with another plugin also and they need to see some error logs, but i use hostinger to host my website, have no idea how to get the error logs..
Hey @2fishone – thanks for your reply! Best would be a link from GooglePageSpeed before activating two-factor and once afterwards. Then we can check the difference and what could cause the degraded performance. As per my tests two-factor didnt added any load on the website itself – only on the login page.
