Prefmatters- WordPress Performance Plugin

Prefmatters- WordPress Performance Plugin | Speed up your WordPress Website

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

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 plugin 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 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 Performance Plugin 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.

Many of Perfmatter’s 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.