Your WordPress is down, or are you being lazy like the sloth?
This could be irritating when your website goes slow, and you are now able to figure out the reason behind it.
Have you faced the same? I am sure you have. Everyone does.
No one wants to stay on a slower website, so it’s quite wise to keep an eye on your website’s speed.
Reasons why WordPress Slows Down
There are many reasons behind WordPress performance issues.
One of them is the messy database.
- Messy Database: That means files that are not in use but still stay there. So, it’s better to clean that regularly. but doing it manually could be tricky.
I have already written an article on how we could clean up the WordPress database in just a few clicks.
- Bad themes and plugins – A few plugins and themes may also slow down your website or blog. It happens to many of us. In a hurry, we install any plugin from the WordPress library that could badly slow down the website.
In a certain scenario, a WordPress user always uses to wonder if they could have a WordPress plugin detector, which could tell them which one to use.
Guess what, fortunately, it’s there. We are going to see how a plugin lets you know which plugin is slowing down your website.
Sounds Amazing?
Let’s have a look, at how to find out which plugins are affecting your site.
Find out Slow WordPress Plugin: P3 WordPress Plugin Detector
Though, it’s quite difficult to point out any of the culprit plugins manually. We can do that by uninstalling WordPress plugins one by one, or else you can also deactivate all the WordPress plugins in one go from the database.
But, finding it manually could be time-consuming. So here let’s see it with the help of a plugin.
- Step 1: Download the P3 (Plugin Performance Profiler) plugin, then install and activate it.
This plugin is not updated for quite some time. But, works fine with the latest WordPress versions as well.
- Step 2: Navigate to Plugins – Installed Plugins, and look for the P3 Profile plugin.
- Step 3: Hit the Scan Now link button.
This will scan your whole site and install plugins in just a few minutes. Be patient, because the next will be the big thing for you.
For creating this tutorial, I have installed more plugins, so that we can see the changes in the load time and impact of the slower plugins.
There you go, all the results will be displayed, which will include
- Total plugins installed
- Load Time of your site
- Plugin Impact on the Load Time
- SQL queries running per visit along with a pie chart of the plugins:
By, looking at the pie chart, we see a few of the plugins like Jetpack and Wordfence security plugin taking more time to load.
These were just a few examples of the other fast plugins. But yes, Jetpack and WordFence have great benefits for your site.
Now, this is quite easy to find out the plugin that had an impact and slowed down your site.
Though you have already found out about it, now it’s time to uninstall those plugins. But, before deactivating those plugins, it would be great to find alternative plugins.
Bonus Tip: It’s always wise to install plugins, on any of your demo sites before putting them on your main site. The plugins and themes always leave some files even after installing them. Moreover, experiments should not affect your main site at all.
Once done with removing the slower plugins and replacing their alternatives. Make sure you clean your WordPress database.
And finally, test your site speed, you will be able to boost up site speed. You can give it a try on the Pingdom Website Speed Test. We should always use a WordPress plugin performance monitor which could notify what’s going wrong with your site.
Do share, how you could able to boost your site speed after finding better alternatives. And which WordPress plugin detector do you already use?
I would love to hear your thoughts, which could be useful for fellow readers too! Do share this article if it helps you so that others can also take advantage and boost their site speed by removing the slower plugins.