When I added the sidebar filter to the products page the page went from loading in less than a second to over 10 seconds. It doesn't matter if the category has one product or 100 it still takes a long time to load.
I tried installing on a dedicated server with more RAM but that did not change the speed for this page.
Hi Wellsuited There aren't functions to speed it up as normally to tell the truth, speed isn't an issue. Have you got a lot of product attributes defined maybe? And have you been using the top filter before turning on the side filter and if so was that a problem? And have you got the latest version installed (which is normally a good first step.)
Hi, in addition to the questions Vince raised, it may be helpful if we knew how many products you are loading per page. If it's unusually high, and you have a huge amount of attributes assigned, if may be helpful to reduce the products per page if that's set to a high number.
Is there any way you can combine attributes or remove any unwanted attributes? Also, are you able to get a dump of the database via phpMyAdmin so that I can try your setup here?