Perform – Performance Optimization for WordPress

Perform helps you speed up WordPress by removing unused CSS/JS, deferring or disabling scripts, and giving fine-grained control over asset loading per page.

The plugin is designed to be lightweight, beginner-friendly and developer-extensible. It focuses on practical optimizations that improve front-end load times and Core Web Vitals without complicated setup.

Key benefits (short):

• Reduce page size and HTTP requests by disabling unused assets per page.
• Improve Largest Contentful Paint and Time to Interactive via script deferring and selective loading.
• Reduce admin and server overhead, minimal CPU and memory footprint.

Features

• Assets Manager: selectively disable CSS and JS per page, post type or template.
• Remove jQuery Migrate, emojis, embeds and other unnecessary features.
• WooCommerce optimizations: control cart fragments, scripts and styles to speed up stores.
• CDN & preconnect: add DNS-prefetch, preconnect, and native CDN integration hooks.
• Menu caching and lightweight transient caching for faster navigation.
• Developer-friendly hooks and filters for custom integrations.

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Support

For help and troubleshooting, use our WordPress.org support forum: https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/perform
Contributions and bug reports welcome on GitHub: https://github.com/performwp/perform

Contributors

performwp, mehul0810, ankur0812