Perfmatters – Lightweight WordPress Performance Plugin

Slow WordPress sites have higher bounce rates and fewer conversions. The perfmatters plugin was created by webperf geeks to speed up your site!

This plugin adds an assortment of performance and speed improvements to your WordPress installation.

Features:

Optimizations:

The main way this plugin helps speed up your site is by disabling things that might not be used on your site.

Disable emojis
Disable embeds
Remove query strings
Disable XML-RPC
Remove jQuery migrate
Remove WordPress version number
Remove wlwmanifest link
Remove RSD link
Remove shortlink
Disable RSS feeds
Remove RSS feed links
Remove Dashicons
Disable scripts per page/post
Disable scripts with Regex
CDN Rewrite
Disable Password Strength Meter
Add blank favicon

Disable self pingbacks
Disable WordPress Heartbeat API
Change Heartbeat API frequency
Disable and limit post revisions
Remove REST API links
Change autosave interval
DNS prefetching
Preconnect
Disable WooCommerce scripts and styles
Disable WooCommerce widgets
Disable WooCommerce status meta box
Disable WooCommerce cart fragments (AJAX)
Disable Google Maps API
Multisite support
Change WordPress login URL
Local analytics

Scripts Manager:

The perfmatters plugin also now has a Scripts Manager built in. This allows you to disable scripts on a per post/page basis. This is very powerful and can drastically increase the speed on your WordPress sites (especially your homepage).

A few examples of what this can be used for:

The popular Contact Form 7 plugin loads itself on every page and post. You can easily disable it everywhere with one click and enable only on your contact page.
Social media sharing plugins should only be loaded on your posts. You can easily disable it everywhere and load only on post types, or even custom post types.

Perfmatters script manager

All scripts are grouped by their respective plugin and theme so you can easily see which scripts are being used by what.

Extras

DNS Prefetching is available under the perfmatter’s extras tab, along with the ability to enable accessibility mode. Accessibility mode ensures that our plugin dashboard fully works with screen reader.

Performance

Web performance is the most important feature to us, and that is why this plugin doesn’t load anything on the frontend and is under 60 KB on the backend.