1. Steps to uncover which WordPress Plugin is slowing down your
WordPress blog

2. If you are good blogger and your monthly traffic reach
above thousands then it’s time to take a quick action
against the slow loading speed of your WordPress
blog. Slow loading blog could spoil your whole traffic
ratio. So it is important that have your Wordpress
website fully optimized for fast loading. Even Google is
also considering the ‘Loading Speed’ as one of the
significant factors in their search rankings.
Benefits of using WordPress is that you have wide
range of free plugins to choose from. Not every
WordPress plugins installed in your WordPress blog
performs well and moreover, poorly configured
plugins will extremely affect the overall performance
of your WordPress blog.
It is highly recommended to limit down the number of
plugins installed which significantly improves loading
speed. So keep active the plugins which are fulfilling
the purpose and helps your WordPress blog load fast.

3. Steps to find out which plugin is slowing down your blog:
We all know, WordPress plugins are used for enhancing the Wordpress
functionality however the more plugin you use it makes the website heavy and
directly affects webpage loading speed mainly slowing it down.
P3 (Plugin Performance Profiler) is one of the recommended WordPress plugin
that delivers detailed report on performance and loading time of plugins
installed in your WordPress blog.
Download P3 Plugin >>

4. P3 (Plugin Performance Profiler)
P3 Plugin is useful WordPress plugin which helps to scan and find the plugins
which are reason for slow loading speed of your WordPress blog. The only thing
you need do is, configure this outstanding P3 plugin into your WordPress and click
on ‘Start Scan’ button, you will be provided with detailed report with total site
load time.

5. Step - 1
Install P3 plugin into your WordPress and go to admin panel.
As you installed P3 plugin, you will report with how many plugin are
currently active in your WordPress.

6. Step - 2
So now, Start a New Scan and start with Auto Scan option.
In ‘Auto Scan’ and ‘Manual Scan’ there is a bit difference. It is recommended that
you should perform scan test 2 times, using both ‘Auto Scan’ and ‘Manual Scan’.

7. Step - 3
Once you complete scanning of your WordPress blog, a detailed report will
be generated which includes factors like Total no of SQL Queries, Plugin
Impact and Plugin Load Time.
Suppose, total SQL executed queries are about 60 and plugin impact is
arround 35 to 28 percenatge which is fine. If plugin load time is less than a
second, this is impressive.

8. Detailed Reports Generated by P3 Plugin
1. Runtime By Plugin
Here you notice that the total time taken by each plugins displays in Pie-chart.
For example
Here you can notice that, WP Minify, Ninja Affiliates and WordPress SEO are consuming
more time to load.

9. 2. Detailed Breakdown
Here you will find the ‘Time vs Plugin’ graph which shows which plugin taking
more time to load.
The Detailed Breakdown draws a graph between component and time required (in
seconds) to load them.

10. 3. Detailed Timeline
This Detailed Timeline displays the time taken by component including WP Core
and Theme.

11. 4. Advanced Metrics
Advanced Metrics shows the Plugin Load Time and its overall impact on loading
speed of your WordPress blog.

12. It is not necessary that you should use this plugin continuously, if you
think your WordPress blog is performing slow, install this P3 Plugin
and validate the report and uninstall it.
So, now you can easily find out which plugins are slowing
down your WordPress blog and uninstall them effortlessly.

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