Gsitemap module slows site if "submit map when updated" is selected

Last updated July 15, 2010. Created by Amazon on February 12, 2006.
Edited by edario, LeeHunter, serkan.arikusu, bekasu. Log in to edit this page.

Gsitemap module is great and I have been using it for a long time. It can notify the search engines whenever your sitemap changes such as when a new node is added. However, if you select this "submit map when updated" checkbox, then that can degrade performance. I had turned it ON once and noticed that the submit new node was taking 90 seconds. When I turned it OFF, it became 7 seconds. Performance is slow because the extra work of notifying search engines is being done - not a fault of the gsitemap module. I hope this finding helps others facing performance problems only in submit of new node.