Interaction to Next Paint (INP) is a Core Web Vitals metric introduced on March 12, 2024. It’s definitely one of the trickier and more frustrating metrics to fix, as one of the most significant factors can simply be the code quality underneath your site. This is where moving to lightweight plugins and themes can really … Read more
Novashare customers, get 25% off Perfmatters! First off, thanks for being a Novashare customer. To show our appreciation, we’re excited to offer you an exclusive one-time 25% off discount code on our WordPress performance plugin, Perfmatters. Use the discount code NOVAPERF when you checkout. Lightweight yet powerful While our plugin is extremely lightweight compared to … Read more
Admin bar menus in WordPress can be great for providing shortcuts to commonly used features (such as clearing Used CSS or accessing the Script Manager). However, sometimes this area can get quite cluttered, and therefore we have an option to completely hide the Perfmatters admin bar. Hide Perfmatters admin bar Follow the steps below to … Read more
Resources like CSS and JS are typically render-blocking by nature. This means they block the first paint of your page, which results in higher First Contentful Paint (FCP), Largest Contentful Paint (LCP), and slower load times. When this happens, Google PageSpeed Insights gives you a warning to “Eliminate render-blocking resources.” To fix this, Google recommends … Read more
The “Reduce unused CSS” warning is triggered by PageSpeed Insights when you have code being loaded by a plugin or your theme that isn’t needed or used on a page. Developers typically only enqueue a stylesheet if it’s being used. However, many times, extra styles that might not be needed are also added. This results … Read more
The “Reduce initial server response time” warning is triggered by PageSpeed Insights when your time-to-first-byte (TTFB), also referred to as wait time, is higher than 600 ms. TTFB is a metric that measures the time taken to establish a connection to your server and then receive the first byte of page data back. In terms … Read more
Google will flag your assets with the “Serve static assets with an efficient cache policy” warning when they have a cache length that’s too short. Google requires that your assets (images, fonts, JS, CSS) have a cache expiry time, also referred to as cache TTL, of at least 30 days or more. Follow the steps … Read more
Below is a list of all the filters available in Perfmatters. These allow you to further customize the plugin. If you need an easy way to add a filter, we recommend the free WPCode plugin. Check out this article on how to add PHP to your WordPress site. JavaScript CSS Preloading Lazy loading CDN Core Miscellaneous … Read more
There might be times when you need to add an exception for a script or plugin based on the state of the user. Such as whether they are logged in or logged out of your WordPress site. You can do this in the Script Manager. Under your script or plugin disable, there is a section … Read more
This is a good place to get started after first installing Perfmatters. We’ve put together some recommended settings we typically use across our own sites and clients’ sites. Tip: See our documentation on how to run a website speed test the right way. If it appears your website is slowing down, it might simply be … Read more
