About this plugin
Your site is slow, or it keeps hitting its PHP worker limit, and you have no idea which plugin is responsible. Most tools are either developer debug bars too heavy to leave on, expensive services that do not run on shared hosting, or lab benchmarks of a plugin on a clean site rather than your site.
Pagemeter is a simple, on-demand speed test for your own site. Click Run test and it loads your front page a few times, both cached (what real visitors get) and uncached (a genuine cache miss), then shows you one screen with:
- Runtime by plugin – your plugins ranked by how much PHP time their code spends building a page, so you can see what is actually heavy.
- Caching impact – how much faster caching makes your site, measured rather than guessed. Caching and optimization plugins are recognized and never framed as “slow”; their cost on a cache miss is exactly what buys your visitors a fast, cached page.
- Page performance – the page build time split into Load, Setup, and Render, with peak memory and database query count.
- Outbound HTTP by plugin – every external service your plugins contact during the build, and how slow or error-prone each one is. Dead third-party APIs that quietly time out are a common, invisible cause of a slow site.
Every test is saved, so each time you optimize, remove, or reconfigure a plugin you can watch the numbers drop and prove the improvement.
Nothing is recorded except during a test you start yourself, so there is zero measurement overhead on normal visitor traffic.
It also includes an optional domain governor: a blocklist you configure to stop a dead or unwanted endpoint from slowing your site. Nothing is blocked by default.
Privacy
Pagemeter measures locally and stores everything in your own database. It does not contact any external server and contains no telemetry. No data about your site or your plugins leaves your site.
What it does not do
- It does not name or rank plugins for anyone but you, on your own screen.
- It does not block any outbound request unless you add that domain to your blocklist yourself.