WordPress Plugin Profiler
April 29, 2015
Contrary to popular belief, adding plugins to your WordPress site is not necessarily harmful to the performance of your page. One “bad” plugin alone can potentially bring your site down while the site can run smooth with a 100 installed plugins. It all depends on which plugins you install and how they are built.
Luckily, there are tools like this little plugin i just found called Plugin Profiler by Danny van Kooten. It measures the loading time with all plugins deactivated, all activated and both in combination with a plugin you specifically choose.
The only thing you need to do for it to work properly is manually add a file in your mu-plugins folder and after that it’s really easy to use. Choose which plugin you want to check and how many test-runs you’d like and let it do it’s work. Kinda like magic.
I don’t know how accurate the results are and what exactly is going on under the hood to measure them, but i’m sure it’s a good indicator if something is going wrong with a plugin.
What do you use to check Plugin Performance before installing/activating?