Plugins Speed Test

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This plugin shows impact of installed plugins on your blogs' speed.

Author:Csaba Kissi (profile at wordpress.org)
WordPress version required:3.0.1
WordPress version tested:4.1.1
Plugin version:1.1
Added to WordPress repository:23-03-2015
Last updated:06-04-2015
Warning! This plugin has not been updated in over 2 years. It may no longer be maintained or supported and may have compatibility issues when used with more recent versions of WordPress.
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Plugin URI:http://blog.wpspeedster.com/plugins-speed-tes...
Total downloads:18 375
Active installs:20+
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This used, shows impact of installed plugins (only for those located in the official WordPress plugin repository) on your blogs' speed.
 In other words, with this plugin, you can easily determine which plugins from the WordPress plugin repository are less resource intensive, and which ones can slow down your WordPress blog when used.

The plugin shows four results (see screenshot):

  • Impact of the installed plugin on Google PageSpeed score for blogs' Home page
  • Impact of the installed plugin on Google PageSpeed score for blogs' sample Post page
  • Resources added to post page after plugin has been installed (in kB)
  • Number of DB tables created by the plugin.

More than 25.000 plugins were tested lately.

Every plugin was tested on a fresh WordPress installed instance populated with a sample content. No additional plugins were installed to avoid any unwanted impact on the speed test.

NOTE: This plugin calls wpspeedster.com API to obtain necessary information about Speed Impact details. Only plugin slugs are send to the API, no additional or personal information is send.


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