Which Plugin Is Slowing Down Your WordPress Site? Meet Pagemeter, a Free On-Demand Speed Test
Your WordPress site feels slow, and you have twenty plugins active. Which one is the problem? For years the answer was P3 (Plugin Performance Profiler). It has been dead for a long time now, and nothing simple replaced it. So we built one.
Pagemeter is a free WordPress plugin that runs a speed test on demand and shows you, on a single screen, exactly what is costing you time. Click Run test and it loads your front page a few times, both cached (what your real visitors get) and uncached (a genuine cache miss), then breaks down the results.
What it shows you
- Runtime by plugin. Every plugin ranked by the PHP time its code spends building a page, heaviest first. A clearly labeled sampled estimate.
- Caching impact. Cached versus uncached, so you see how much faster caching makes your site. Caching and optimization plugins are recognized and never framed as slow.
- Page performance. Build time split into Load, Setup, and Render, plus peak memory and query count, with before and after trends.
- Outbound HTTP by plugin. Every external service your plugins call, and how slow or error prone each one is. Often the hidden reason a page drags.
- Test history. A rolling record of recent runs with before and after deltas.
Safe by design. Pagemeter is read only and fail safe. It records nothing during normal visitor traffic. It only measures during a test you start, and the startup code is wrapped so it can never take your site down. Nothing leaves your site.
Download Pagemeter: https://wordpress.org/plugins/pagemeter/
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