Stats. Geeks love em and at some point my blog was acting sluggish, and I was all like “OMG would it be that mobile plugin? Or the spam blocker? Or that one that makes it available for mobile?”.
Yep, you guessed it. A shear geek panic attack. So I head over to the virtual plugin store and checked if there was something out there to do that for me. Yep, having the computer do stuff for you. Another one of those things geeks love.
Enter P3, the Plugin Profiler.
After a quick profile test (takes about 5 minutes) it presents you with pretty pie and line charts telling you how long it took for your pages to load (average is less than a second, which is nice), which plugins are slowing you down and how many database queries were launched (56 on average, wow).
Interesting stuff!
To give you an idea of what that looks like without the pretty pie charts, here’s some plain old text output.
WordPress Plugin Profile Report
Report date: July 24, 2012
Theme name: Evening Red (based on Sandbox)
Pages browsed: 11
Avg. load time: 0.7966 sec
Number of plugins: 23
Plugin impact: 54.10% of load time
Avg. plugin time: 0.4310 sec
Avg. core time: 0.3161 sec
Avg. theme time: 0.0474 sec
Avg. mem usage: 19.95 MB
Avg. ticks: 4,232
Avg. db queries : 56.27
Margin of error : 0.0021 sec
Plugin list:
P3 (Plugin Performance Profiler) – 0.0054 sec – 1.26%
After The Deadline – 0.0093 sec – 2.16%
Akismet – 0.0205 sec – 4.76%
Bad Behavior – 0.0251 sec – 5.82%
Dean’s Permalinks Migration – 0.0222 sec – 5.16%
Exploit Scanner – 0.0064 sec – 1.48%
Feedburner Plugin – 0.0019 sec – 0.45%
Google Sitemap Generator – 0.0013 sec – 0.30%
Lightbox 2 – 0.0048 sec – 1.12%
Do Follow – 0.0121 sec – 2.80%
Simple Reverse Comments – 0.0020 sec – 0.47%
SoundCloud Shortcode – 0.0091 sec – 2.11%
WordPress.com Stats – 0.0147 sec – 3.42%
Subscribe To Comments – 0.0647 sec – 15.01%
Viper’s Video Quicktags – 0.0088 sec – 2.04%
Widget Category Cloud – 0.0449 sec – 10.42%
Wordpress Mobile Edition – 0.0131 sec – 3.04%
Wordpress Popular Posts – 0.0105 sec – 2.44%
wp-cache – 0.0105 sec – 2.45%
WordPress Database Backup – 0.0120 sec – 2.79%
WP Tweet Button – 0.0533 sec – 12.36%
WPtouch – 0.0225 sec – 5.23%
Yet Another Related Posts Plugin – 0.0557 sec – 12.93%