Many plugins slow down site?

  • This is a general question regarding plugins.

    Will many plugins slow down the site? And if so, how do I know which ones I can get rid of? For example themes that are not used could be discarded maybe?

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  • Moderator James Huff

    (@macmanx)

    It depends on the plugins, what they do, and the resources available at the hosting provider.

    I have seen sites with almost 100 plugins (I don’t recommend that simply for sanity reasons) with no negative speed impact.

    Many optimized plugins may run perfectly fine on your site, whereas just one badly coded plugin may single-handedly take down your site.
    I suggest you setup a development site, cloned from your main official one, where you can test everything you need first.

    Several free plugins from the plugins directory will help you measure how long pages generation takes, and of course cache plugins can bring a much better experience.

    Unused / unactived themes and plugins have nothing to do in a production site anyway, if only because that’ll save you from getting update notices for things you do not use, but mainly for security reasons of course.

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