How to find a slow WordPress plugin

roggy · Dec 6, 2015

Hello guys, I was confused with Google insights tool hence I used GTmetrics to analyze my site. My blog site is running around 20 Wordpress plugins
I suppose that one of WP plugins is the reason causing site load delay, do you know how to find a slow WordPress plugin?

ulterios · Dec 6, 2015

The old way that many people still use is disabling each plugin one at a time and testing the speed after one is disabled. Keep doing that till you find the one that's causing the greatest slowdown.

There is also a plugin that checks plugin speed, here's the link to the plugin: https://wordpress.org/plugins/plugins-speed-test/

I do have to say that most people don't use that many plugins though, so it might be a few of them that's causing the slow down. Most people recommend 5-10 plugins at the most for several reasons, and load times is one of them.

NetMan · Dec 16, 2015

P3 Plugin Profiler will be your best friend to find the culprit plugins that are causing sluggish page loads.

YOU can find it right here and for free:
https://wordpress.org/plugins/p3-profiler/

Enjoy!

Ron Killian · Dec 18, 2015

NetMan said:
P3 Plugin Profiler will be your best friend to find the culprit plugins that are causing sluggish page loads.

YOU can find it right here and for free:
https://wordpress.org/plugins/p3-profiler/

Enjoy!

I was going to recommend the same plug-in. Awesome plug-in. It's helped me figure out which ones are taking the most resources.

ulterios said:
Most people recommend 5-10 plugins at the most for several reasons, and load times is one of them.

Really? LOL. Sorry I couldn't get started without at least 20

Ron Killian · Dec 18, 2015

I've tried my best to narrow it down to only the very necessities. I've gotten better.

Can be hard though, often plug-ins can be so darn cool!

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