Perfmatters is a WordPress plugin designed to help website owners improve the performance and speed of their WordPress websites.
Perfmatters offers various features and optimizations to enhance website performance, such as:
- Script and Asset Control: It allows you to disable unnecessary scripts and assets on a per-page basis, reducing the number of HTTP requests and speeding up page load times.
- Lazy Loading: Perfmatters supports lazy loading for images and iframes, which means these elements are only loaded when they come into the user’s viewport, saving bandwidth and improving loading times.
- Database Optimization: You can clean up and optimize your WordPress database to improve its efficiency and reduce the size of the database, which can lead to faster database queries.
- Disable Emojis and Gravatars: This plugin lets you disable emojis and Gravatars (globally recognized avatars) to reduce unnecessary requests and improve page load times.
- CDN Integration: Perfmatters can be integrated with content delivery networks (CDNs) to serve your website’s assets from servers closer to your users, reducing latency and improving load times.
- DNS Prefetching: It allows you to set up DNS prefetching for external domains, which can improve the loading of third-party resources.
- Heartbeat Control: You can control and limit the WordPress Heartbeat API to reduce server load.
- Header and Footer Script Control: Perfmatters lets you manage scripts that are loaded in the header and footer of your website, ensuring better control over these elements.
- WooCommerce Optimization: If you’re running an online store using WooCommerce, Perfmatters provides optimizations specific to WooCommerce to improve its performance.
- Plugin Manager: You can selectively disable plugins on specific pages or posts, which can be useful for optimizing your site further.