Steps to uncover which WordPress Plugin is slowing down your WordPress blog

If you are good blogger and your monthly traffic reach above thousands then it’s time to take a quick action against the slow loading speed of your WordPress blog. Slow loading blog could spoil your whole traffic ratio. So it is important that have your Wordpress website fully optimized for fast loading. Even Google is also considering the ‘Loading Speed’ as one of the significant factors in their search rankings.

Benefits of using WordPress is that you have wide range of free plugins to choose from. Not every WordPress plugins installed in your WordPress blog performs well and moreover, poorly configured plugins will extremely affect the overall performance of your WordPress blog.

It is highly recommended to limit down the number of plugins installed which significantly improves loading speed. So keep active the plugins which are fulfilling the purpose and helps your WordPress blog load fast.

Steps to find out which plugin is slowing down your blog:

We all know, WordPress plugins are used for enhancing the Wordpress functionality however the more plugin you use it makes the website heavy and directly affects webpage loading speed mainly slowing it down.

P3 (Plugin Performance Profiler) is one of the recommended WordPress plugin that delivers detailed report on performance and loading time of plugins installed in your WordPress blog.

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P3 (Plugin Performance Profiler)

P3 Plugin is useful WordPress plugin which helps to scan and find the plugins which are reason for slow loading speed of your WordPress blog. The only thing you need do is, configure this outstanding P3 plugin into your WordPress and click on ‘Start Scan’ button, you will be provided with detailed report with total site load time.

Step - 1

Install P3 plugin into your WordPress and go to admin panel.

As you installed P3 plugin, you will report with how many plugin are currently active in your WordPress.

Step - 2

So now, Start a New Scan and start with Auto Scan option.

In ‘Auto Scan’ and ‘Manual Scan’ there is a bit difference. It is recommended that you should perform scan test 2 times, using both ‘Auto Scan’ and ‘Manual Scan’.

Step - 3

Once you complete scanning of your WordPress blog, a detailed report will be generated which includes factors like Total no of SQL Queries, Plugin Impact and Plugin Load Time.

Suppose, total SQL executed queries are about 60 and plugin impact is arround 35 to 28 percenatge which is fine. If plugin load time is less than a second, this is impressive.

Detailed Reports Generated by P3 Plugin

1. Runtime By Plugin

Here you notice that the total time taken by each plugins displays in Pie-chart.

For example

Here you can notice that, WP Minify, Ninja Affiliates and WordPress SEO are consuming more time to load.

2. Detailed Breakdown

Here you will find the ‘Time vs Plugin’ graph which shows which plugin taking more time to load.

The Detailed Breakdown draws a graph between component and time required (in seconds) to load them.

3. Detailed Timeline

This Detailed Timeline displays the time taken by component including WP Core and Theme.

4. Advanced Metrics

Advanced Metrics shows the Plugin Load Time and its overall impact on loading speed of your WordPress blog.

It is not necessary that you should use this plugin continuously, if you think your WordPress blog is performing slow, install this P3 Plugin and validate the report and uninstall it.

So, now you can easily find out which plugins are slowing down your WordPress blog and uninstall them effortlessly.

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