§ 08.00 — Insights · Performance
Performance
§ 08.01
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Why your WP site lost 1.2 s to a plugin audit, and how to win it back.
A 9-minute teardown of the plugin tax. Includes the spreadsheet I use to score plugins on weight, render-blocking, and abandonment risk. Numbers from 47 live sites measured in 2026.
9 min read
Plugin diet: 38 → 11 in 14 days
A worked example of cutting an enterprise WordPress install from 38 active plugins to 11, with every removed plugin's behaviour preserved in theme code.
11 min read
The caching stack I use in 2026
Cloudflare + WP Rocket + page-cache + object-cache. The order matters. The defaults don't.
10 min read