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When using content management systems, for example joomla, drupal, wordpress and other scripts that help you to get a website up and running, there are usually plenty of extras that can be added to your setup that allows you to extend the functionality of your website or to add features that may increase the interactivity or your site and make it more appealing, at least at face value.

For most people, hosting a cms based site with these extra plugins wont be a problem, theres usually enough disk space provided for you and the plugins themselves usually dont take up much space at all, but as you begin to add more to a website you can sometimes begin to see the loading times of your website pages becoming longer and for some visitors to your website, these loading times may be longer than they are for others.

As you may have seen mentioned before, you only have a few seconds to grab peoples attention and to try and get a visitor to stay long enough at the page that they land on and thats if your web page loads quickly, so if the page is taking too long to load and preventing them from seeing what they came to your site for then the visitor can quickly become frustrated with the wait, they may even become worried and think that all of the excess activity is something malicious being downloaded onto their computer.

Sometimes plugins that you are using are for background or unseen benefits to your website, as in unseen to the visitor, for example on a wordpress blog you may be running a plugin for seo and one for a sitemap and a few others that you feel are important.

But then there can be other plugins that seem to have less of a purpose and are more gimmicky types of plugins and if you get carried away with adding lots of plugins to your blog then your blog can begin to slow down and what may at first seem like interesting features for your visitors actually become a problem as you begin to lose visitors because they end up exiting your website before it's finished fully loading because it was taking to long and they grew tired of waiting.

If you add to this, snippets of code, tools for this and that, widgets that are relying on the uptime of a server elsewhere that you have no control over, it's no wonder that some sites can end up a real mess of slow loading extras that make your site less appealing eventually, and it actually begins to put people off.

So sometimes when you may be looking at why your website is having problems, maybe wondering why traffic is dropping and what were regulars to your site are now not visiting so often, it's worth taking a look at the amount of plugins and widgets installed and thinking about whether you really need all of them and which ones are actually benefitting your website and your visitors.

This doesn't mean that you have to strip back your wordpress blog or other cms based site so that it's boring and featureless, either for your visitors or for yourself, but just that overall, everyone will most likely benefit a whole lot more from you only adding the extras that you need to your website.

Dont forget that if you do deactivate any plugins and are sure that you wont be using them anymore that you delete them from your hosting, it will help free up space and theres no point in having a bunch of plugins sitting on a server that dont get used anymore.