Plugin Profiler

Basic profiler for WordPress Plugins. Benchmarks any given plugin by testing response times with and without the plugin activated.

Plugin Profiler is on GitHub. Bug reports (and pull requests) are welcomed on the Plugin Profiler GitHub repository. Please note that GitHub is not a support forum.

Profiling a plugin This plugin measures response times of any URL on your website in the following ways.

• No plugins activated
• Only the selected plugin(s) activated
• All but the selected plugin(s) activated
• All plugins activated

It then plots the response times in a chart and calculates the average response time time difference. While this way of profiling a plugin is very low-tech it can be interesting to measure the impact of a plugin on your site's response time. Please note that this way of benchmarking leaves a lot of factors out - like additional HTTP requests caused by a plugin, etc.. Installing Plugin Profiler Since this plugin needs to filter out which plugins are activated for the profiling requests, it needs to be installed as a must-use plugin so it's loaded early. Have a look at the installation instructions for details. More information

• Developers; follow or contribute to the Plugin Profiler plugin on GitHub
• Other WordPress plugins by Danny van Kooten
• @DannyvanKooten on Twitter

Installing Plugin Profiler

1. In your WordPress admin panel, go to Plugins > New Plugin, search for Plugin Profiler and click "Install now"
2. Alternatively, download the plugin and upload the contents of plugin-profiler.zip to your plugins directory, which usually is /wp-content/plugins/.
3. Create the file /wp-content/mu-plugins/profiler.php with the following contents. `

<?php if( ! defined( 'ABSPATH' ) ) { exit; } // load the plugin profiler plugin early require_once WP_PLUGIN_DIR . '/plugin-profiler/plugin-profiler.php'; ` 4. Go to Tools > Plugin Profiler, set some configurations for the profile to run and have a look! == Frequently Asked Questions == I think I found a bug. What now? Please report it on GitHub issues if it's not in the list of known issues. I have another question Please open a topic on the WordPress.org plugin support forums. == Screenshots ==

1. The plugin in action, profiling MailChimp for WordPress.

== Changelog == 1.1.2 - February 20, 2015 Fixes

• JavaScript error for servers requiring case-sensitive file URL's.

1.1.1 - February 5, 2015 Improvements

• Now marking request errors & deviating requests in result details
• Better signature validating

Additions

• Added results table showing all request details

1.1 - January 28, 2015 Improvements

• Profiler now runs client-side.
• Results are shown in a bar chart, which updates live. (needs IE9+)
• Profiling can be paused & resumed.
• Improved reliability of benchmark results.

1.0 - January 26, 2015 Initial release