Mailchimp pluging slows down wordpress response time

[kjrogers]

I am using version 1.4.2 of the mailchimp plugin to allow users to subscribe from my wordpress site and store their information in the mailchimp database. The mailchimp plugin clearly slows down the response time on my website. If the plugin is enabled then the page response time is 10 seconds. If I disable the plugin then response time is between 3 and 4 seconds. This problem has been diagnosed by others. The offending lines are in lines 113 and 114 in mailchimp.php. If I comment out these lines then my website responds more quickly. However, I get errors in administration mode. When will the response time problem be fixed?

[ghost]

I can confirm this definitely does slow down the page loading process, by adding an extra resource to be loaded, which loads slowly.

Commenting the lines below removed the extra CSS code being added to the template, which removes the request.

wp_enqueue_style('mailchimpSF_main_css', home_url('?mcsf_action=main_css&ver='.MCSF_VER));
wp_enqueue_style('mailchimpSF_ie_css', MCSF_URL.'css/ie.css');

Can this be resolved in an update, either by removing these lines from the mailchimp.php file, or providing an option in the Admin, to remove these lines.

[selrond]

@kjrogers @leecollings same problem here. What does MailChimp's CSS do anyway? Where is it used? Can I safely comment out those lines?

[danicotillas]

@leecollings If I comment those line it gives me an Error 500.

[ghost]

@danicotillas Can you show us how you are commenting out the lines?