How do I know which plugin is speedy?

  • Is there somewhere I can look-up plugins or someway I can find out which plugins will slow down my site the least?

    EXAMPLE: There are a ton of “polls” and “user submitted posts” plugins, but I don’t know which one would effect my site speed and what won’t. Apart from downloading them all and trying one after the other.

    Didn’t know if there was a faster way to figure this out?

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  • There’s no fast way to figure this out. As you’ve sene, each pluign is different and will have a slightly differnt processing speed. The time differnce between plugins is almost impossible to figure out because there’s way to many varialbes that are 100% outside the control of you, me, the WordPress devs and the plugins dev.

    Speed is very subjective to the system that you’re running WordPress on. Some systems might get text out faster, but do images slower. Some may process the PHP code fast, but take a long time to execute database queries. Some may have fast database queries, but everything else is slow.

    The only thing to do that will work is what the rest of us do: Try eachplugin (bonus points for doing this testing on a separate installation) and seeing what is faster on your site and your server.

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