Perfmatters is a powerful yet lightweight WordPress performance plugin specifically designed to accelerate your website without adding unnecessary complexity or bloat.
This plugin’s core mission is to boost website speed, improve user experience, and enhance search engine rankings by meeting and exceeding Google Core Web Vitals standards.
Perfmatters keeps your site lightning fast with frequent updates and seamless compatibility alongside your existing caching solutions.
Perfmatters Increases the speed of your site by reducing HTTP requests, stripping out code, and minimizing back-end load.
- Easy-to-Use Dashboard with One-Click Toggles – Simplifies complex performance tweaks so you can optimize your site without technical headaches.
- Reduces HTTP Requests – Minimize the number of server requests to dramatically improve page load times and user engagement.
- Plugin Disabling per Page/Post – Disable unnecessary plugins on a granular basis, cutting down on excess code and boosting speed where it counts.
- Code Stripping and Optimization – Remove unused CSS and scripts, ensuring only essential elements load on your site, which enhances overall performance.
- Database Optimization Tools – Clean and optimize your WordPress database for faster queries and smoother site operation.
- No Front-End JavaScript Bloat – Maintains a lightweight footprint by avoiding additional JavaScript, contributing to rapid page rendering.
- Seamless Compatibility – Fully tested to work with all themes and plugins, including caching solutions, for a hassle-free performance boost.
- Lazy Loading for Images and Videos – Improves load times by only loading media as visitors scroll down the page, reducing initial page weight.
- Local Hosting of Google Analytics – Enhance privacy and further speed by hosting tracking scripts locally instead of relying on external servers.
What's new in Version 2.5.6
* Added new perfmatters_cdn_url filter along with new helper methods in the CDN class.
* Added the ability to completely disable Perfmatters code features using the new PERFMATTERS_DISABLE_CODE constant.
* Added confirmation message when turning on FastClick option.
* Added logic to remove the previous stored author ID when a code snippet is imported.
* Added host name to global settings and code snippet export files.
* Added additional logic to add an auto value to lazy loaded images sizes attributes when needed.
* Added separate used CSS generated files for different WooCommerce product types.
* Added dynamic request check in heartbeat function to prevent a possible PHP error.
* Updated lazy loading class to no longer add noscript tags by default for images and iframes to reduce HTML page size. The perfmatters_lazyload_noscript filter can still be used to turn that behavior back on.
* Updated get_atts_array utility method to use regex instead of wp_kses_hair for better compatibility.
* Reworked code snippet error handling class to work better with other exception handlers and existing error reporting.
* Turned off CSSLint in the code snippet editor, as it is outdated and was leading to false positives.
* Adjusted gutter column layout in the code snippet editor to be more consistent between different code types.
* Adjusted code snippet priority field to allow both negative and zero input values.
* Fixed an issue where CSS code snippets set to run in the footer were not having their conditions checked.
* Fixed an issue where CSS code snippets were not always printing where expected based on the set location and priority.
* Fixed an issue with certain code snippet input fields not being escaped properly in the UI leading to a broken layout in some cases.
* Fixed an issue where YouTube iframes rendered with a preview thumbnail that had autoplay forced off in their query string would require a double click.
* Fixed an issue where the referrerpolicy iframe attribute did not get applied to the generated iframe when using YouTube preview thumbnails.
* Translation updates.
* Added the ability to completely disable Perfmatters code features using the new PERFMATTERS_DISABLE_CODE constant.
* Added confirmation message when turning on FastClick option.
* Added logic to remove the previous stored author ID when a code snippet is imported.
* Added host name to global settings and code snippet export files.
* Added additional logic to add an auto value to lazy loaded images sizes attributes when needed.
* Added separate used CSS generated files for different WooCommerce product types.
* Added dynamic request check in heartbeat function to prevent a possible PHP error.
* Updated lazy loading class to no longer add noscript tags by default for images and iframes to reduce HTML page size. The perfmatters_lazyload_noscript filter can still be used to turn that behavior back on.
* Updated get_atts_array utility method to use regex instead of wp_kses_hair for better compatibility.
* Reworked code snippet error handling class to work better with other exception handlers and existing error reporting.
* Turned off CSSLint in the code snippet editor, as it is outdated and was leading to false positives.
* Adjusted gutter column layout in the code snippet editor to be more consistent between different code types.
* Adjusted code snippet priority field to allow both negative and zero input values.
* Fixed an issue where CSS code snippets set to run in the footer were not having their conditions checked.
* Fixed an issue where CSS code snippets were not always printing where expected based on the set location and priority.
* Fixed an issue with certain code snippet input fields not being escaped properly in the UI leading to a broken layout in some cases.
* Fixed an issue where YouTube iframes rendered with a preview thumbnail that had autoplay forced off in their query string would require a double click.
* Fixed an issue where the referrerpolicy iframe attribute did not get applied to the generated iframe when using YouTube preview thumbnails.
* Translation updates.
What's new in Version 2.5.5
* Added new Code Settings options to Import and Export Perfmatters code snippets.
* Added support to export individual snippets, a subset of snippets through a bulk action, or all stored snippets from the new Code Settings export button.
* Added code snippets admin bar menu item that will show up if at least one snippet is present.
* Added frontend footer and admin footer locations for CSS code snippets.
* Added new PMMU_PLUGIN_DIR constant to allow for manipulation of the MU plugin file location for specific setups where the standard WPMU_PLUGIN_DIR may be altered.
* Added a REST API exception for Mollie.
* Added additional built-in CSS selector exclusions for Elementor's background slideshow.
* Added support for relative path URLs found inside stylesheets printed inline with our perfmatters_rucss_inline_stylesheets filter.
* Updated previous Separate Block Styles option which will now show up as a Block Style Behavior dropdown for sites running WordPress 6.9+.
* Fixed an issue in the code snippets editor where lint markers were not always correctly displaying for HTML and CSS snippets.
* Fixed an issue where the code snippet editor was pushing new lines off screen in some cases and not automatically scrolling to keep things in view.
* Fixed an issue where HTML code snippets were not able to save a non-default location.
* Fixed an issue with general Perfmatters admin notices not displaying correctly.
* Fixed multiple duplicate ID warnings in the plugin UI.
* Fixed multiple jQuery deprecation warnings in plugin UI JavaScript.
* Translation updates.
* Added support to export individual snippets, a subset of snippets through a bulk action, or all stored snippets from the new Code Settings export button.
* Added code snippets admin bar menu item that will show up if at least one snippet is present.
* Added frontend footer and admin footer locations for CSS code snippets.
* Added new PMMU_PLUGIN_DIR constant to allow for manipulation of the MU plugin file location for specific setups where the standard WPMU_PLUGIN_DIR may be altered.
* Added a REST API exception for Mollie.
* Added additional built-in CSS selector exclusions for Elementor's background slideshow.
* Added support for relative path URLs found inside stylesheets printed inline with our perfmatters_rucss_inline_stylesheets filter.
* Updated previous Separate Block Styles option which will now show up as a Block Style Behavior dropdown for sites running WordPress 6.9+.
* Fixed an issue in the code snippets editor where lint markers were not always correctly displaying for HTML and CSS snippets.
* Fixed an issue where the code snippet editor was pushing new lines off screen in some cases and not automatically scrolling to keep things in view.
* Fixed an issue where HTML code snippets were not able to save a non-default location.
* Fixed an issue with general Perfmatters admin notices not displaying correctly.
* Fixed multiple duplicate ID warnings in the plugin UI.
* Fixed multiple jQuery deprecation warnings in plugin UI JavaScript.
* Translation updates.