How To Find Which WordPress Plugins Are Slowing Down your Blog

How To Find Which WordPress Plugins Are Slowing Down your Blog. These days it is very important to make your blog load fast and Google also considers “Loading Speed” as one of the major factors in ranking. Advantage of using WordPress is availability of free plugins, that will boost your site performance. Not every plugin installed in your WordPress blog is useful, but some of them (poorly configured and 3rd party plugins) will surely effect the overall performance of your blog.

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It is a known fact that, less the number of plugins, more will be the page loading speed. We have noticed that, majority of sites are loading slow because of social share buttons. So recommend to try our Floating Lazy Load Share Buttons, which helps to make your blog page load faster. Now, coming back to topic, its time to find out which WordPress plugins are slowing down your blog.

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Find Which WordPress Plugins Are Slowing Down your Blog

When considering functionality plugins are really great, but coming to performance they play a vital role in slowing down your blog. Also, the CPU usage will be high, resulting in high hosting bills unless you are using BlueHost. So here is a simple solution to scan and track which WordPress plugin is slowing down your blog.

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P3 (Plugin Performance Profiler) is a pretty cool WordPress plugin, that gives detailed report on performance and loading time of plugins installed in your blog.

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P3 (Plugin Performance Profiler)

P3 Plugin helps to scan and find which plugins are slowing down your blog. Just run “Start Scan” button and reports on total load time, site load etc will be displayed.

Step 1: Install P3 plugin using the above link and go to admin page.

At present we are using just 10 plugins in our blog and hence loading speed is high. We also recommend to use less possible number of plugins in your blog.

Step 2: Start a New Scan and select Auto Scan.

There is a bit difference between “Auto Scan” and “Manual Scan”. It would be better if you perform this test 2 times, using both of the available methods.

Step 3: After scanning pages on your blog, a detailed report will be generated.

Total no of SQL queries executed are 60 and plugin impact is 37.5% which is ok. Plugin load time is 0.1999 sec per visit and is really impressive.

Reports Generated by Plugin Performance Profiler

1. Runtime By Plugin

Displays a pie-chart of time-taken by each plugin to load.

WP-Minify, WordPress SEO by Yoast and Ninja Affiliate are taking more time than other plugins. Author hReview and WP DB Backup are pretty good.

2. Detailed Breakdown

Time vs Plugin graph clearly shows which plugin takes more time to load.

This detailed breakdown plots a graph between Components and time required (in seconds) to load them. In this case Theme itself is taking more time to load.

 3. Detailed Timeline

Timeline also includes WP Core and Theme loading times.

We skipped simple timeline and here is the detailed timeline.

 4. Advanced Metrics

Plugin Load Time and its effect on loading speed of your blog.

Another great option we have noticed is, you can email these performance reports. There is no need to use this plugin continuously, whenever you feel your blog is loading slow, then install Plugin Performance Profiler (P3) check reports and uninstall it.

Now, you can easily find Which WordPress Plugins Are Slowing Down your Blog and uninstall them. Hope you like this article and drop a comment if you need help.