Perfmatters – The Best Lightweight WordPress performance plugin

We developed the Perfmatters plugin with simplicity in mind. We use all of these optimizations on our own sites and are excited to provide an easy way for you to now have them too! No messing around with code or your functions.php file. Performance optimizations shouldn’t have to be complicated and so everything can be enabled/disabled with a single click.

The main way Perfmatters helps speed up your site is by disabling scripts that might not be used on your site. For example, by default emojis load on every single page of your site. If you don’t use them, this is simply slowing it down. By disabling it, the script no longer loads and so it reduces your overall number of HTTP requests and your page size.

Another helpful feature is permatters database optimization. Over time things like revisions, auto-drafts, spam comments, and transients start to fill up your database and before you know it, it’s impacting the performance of your site. With Perfmatters you can easily clean all of these up and even put limits in place to prevent it from happening again. This ensures a fast and snappy database.

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

Quick-toggle options

Many of the Perfmatters options can be applied by simply toggling them on. Here’s a quick look at a few we recommend utilizing:

Disable emojis, embeds, dashicons

Disable unnecessary scripts and assets you might not be using on your site, such as emojis, embeds, dashicons, etc.

Disable or limit post revisions

Disable or limit the number of post revisions that WordPress stores to keep your database from growing out of control.

Change autosave interval

Keep fewer auto-drafts by changing your autosave interval. It also decreases the annoying “there is a more recent version” warning.

Disable and tweak Heartbeat API

Heartbeat can cause high CPU usage and a crazy amount of AJAX calls. You can disable Heartbeat and also change the frequency.

Disable comments and URLs

No blog? Disable comments sitewide to reduce spam, or remove author comment links to stop people from just trying to get a backlink.

Disable Google maps

Google Maps can wreak havoc on your site’s performance. You can disable Google Maps selectively, and only load it where you need it.

Disable WooCommerce cart fragments (AJAX)

The wc-ajax=get_refreshed_fragments request can cause huge delays on WooCommerce sites. Disable cart fragments on your site.

Perfmatters Features

• 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 Google Fonts
• Add code to header or footer
• Disable self pingbacks
• Disable WordPress Heartbeat API
• Change Heartbeat API frequency
• Disable and limit post revisions
• Disable REST API
• 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
• Disable WordPress comments
• Enable lazy-loading