Shield Security Pro causing slow page loads

[ozfiddler]

Thanks for the heads up John. Really worth knowing as it saves a lot of time troubleshooting.

I had something similar happen in Shield last Jan. Wonder if was the same problem? Anyway, Paul fixed it pronto.

Issue with Shield Security and site response times

@Paul and anyone else using Shield… I have just had a fun few hours trying to troubleshoot a problem affecting many of my sites. I was getting a marked slow down in response time… GTmetrix showed it as a 2 second wait before anything was returned from the server. I had the hosting company investigating, and it seemed to be kicking in on various sites at different times, starting last night. I finally had the idea to deactivate Shield and that fixed it - load time went from 2.6s down to 0.6 seco…