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How to hide the Perfmatters admin bar menu

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

How to fix the “Eliminate render-blocking resources” warning

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

How to remove unused CSS in WordPress

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

Filters to further customize Perfmatters

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. Assets Preloading Lazy loading CDN Miscellaneous perfmatters_allow_buffer The … Read more

How to get started with Perfmatters (settings and recommendations)

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

How to preload a resource in WordPress

Preload allows you to specify resources (such as fonts, images, JavaScript, and CSS) that are needed right away or very soon during a page load. A link rel tag is added toward the top of the <head> </head> section on every page of your site. <link rel=’preload’ href=’font.woff2′ as=’font’ type=’font/woff2′ crossorigin> This helps fix the following two … Read more

WordPress performance checklist

Time and time again, we see WordPress users struggling with performance. In a lot of cases, it’s not hard to achieve faster speeds. Most of it comes down to choosing the right technology stack and following best optimization practices. Having been in the performance industry for years, we’ve seen what does and doesn’t work. Google uses … Read more

Features

We developed the Perfmatters plugin with simplicity in mind. We use all of these optimizations on our own sites and are excited to provide an easy way for you to now have them too! No messing around with code or your functions.php file. Performance optimizations shouldn’t have to be complicated and so everything can be … Read more