SpeeSeek

SpeeSeek looks at your site from the inside and surfaces the hidden, server-side things that hurt real-world user experience — the things external tools like Lighthouse or PageSpeed can't see. It explains every finding in plain language as What → Why it hurts → How to fix, with a copy-paste-ready snippet. SpeeSeek is advise-only. It is not an optimizer and it never changes your data or your settings. It diagnoses; you decide. There is zero front-end footprint — nothing is added to your site's public pages, nothing is added to autoload, and scans run on demand from the admin only. Why it's different

• Reads what external tools can't: autoloaded options bloat, cron backlog, database overhead, object cache / OPcache / page-cache configuration, page-builder weight.
• Its own transparent Site Weight grade across four categories — Server Response, Database Weight, Request Load, and Maintenance Health — instead of a single opaque Google score.
• Lightweight by design: read-only, on-demand, and it refuses to be the bloat it detects.

It remembers, so it's a keeper — not a one-time scan

• History & regression alerts — every completed scan is snapshotted, so SpeeSeek can tell you what changed since last time and which plugin or update caused it.
• Per-plugin cost attribution — the "who's the culprit" finder attributes autoloaded weight back to the plugins that created it.
• Consequence translator — not "1.2 MB of autoload" but "~16 ms added to every page load," with the math shown under an Advanced toggle. Never fake precision.
• A "✓ what we verified is healthy" panel, so you can trust the verdict.

Scanners included

• Environment (PHP version / EOL, memory limit)
• Autoloaded Options — size + top offenders loaded on every request (signature finding)
• Cost by Plugin, Plugin Footprint
• Database Weight (expired transients, orphaned metadata, table overhead)
• Post Revisions (page-builder aware), Media Library, Comment Hygiene
• Scheduled Tasks (overdue / duplicate cron, cron-on-page-load)
• Caching (persistent object cache, OPcache, page cache)
• WooCommerce (Action Scheduler backlog, stale sessions — when active)
• Page builders: generic builder weight plus a dedicated Elementor scanner
• Jet / Crocoblock (custom-table weight, SmartFilters indexer, widget packs)

Optional deep profiler On demand, SpeeSeek can install a temporary, removable must-use drop-in to measure (rather than estimate) real server render time, database time, query count, peak memory, front-end asset weight, and outbound HTTP during a single anonymous loopback request to your own home page. It is removed when you're done. Translations Ships ready in English, German (de_DE), and Persian (fa_IR), with full RTL support for Persian. The German and Persian translations are AI-drafted and welcome a native-speaker review pass.

1. In your WordPress admin, go to Plugins → Add New → Upload Plugin and upload the SpeeSeek zip, or install it directly from the Plugin Directory.
2. Activate the plugin through the Plugins screen.
3. Open SpeeSeek in the admin menu and click Run scan.

No configuration is required. Scheduled scans, an email digest, report export (HTML/CSV), and the optional benchmark comparison can be enabled from SpeeSeek's Settings tab.

1.3.0

• New: profile any page on your site, not just the home page — paste a full URL or a path like /shop/. Heavy sites are usually heavy on templates, not the front page.
• New: a "Profiled pages" comparison table shows server render time, database time, and query count side by side, so you can see which template actually costs the most.
• Each profiled page keeps its own most-recent measurement (up to ten), and only same-site URLs can be profiled.

1.2.0

• New: SpeeSeek's three most impactful findings now appear in Tools → Site Health, alongside WordPress's own checks, each linking into the full report.
• New: a "Site Weight" dashboard widget shows your grade, a category breakdown, a score trend sparkline, and what changed since your last scan — without opening the plugin.
• New: WP-CLI support — wp speeseek scan, wp speeseek report (table/json/csv), and wp speeseek profile for scripting audits across many sites.
• All three reuse the existing scan engine and stored report, so they add no front-end footprint and never scan unless you ask.

1.1.0

• New: after activating, SpeeSeek takes you straight to its dashboard with a clearer first-scan welcome.
• New: after your very first scan, the report scrolls to the single most impactful finding so you know where to start.
• New: a one-time, dismissible invitation to review the plugin — shown only after SpeeSeek showed you a measurable improvement.
• German and Persian translations updated for the new screens.

1.0.0

• First stable release in the WordPress.org Plugin Directory.

0.9.2

• The profiler now resolves root-relative asset URLs through site_url() (the same way WordPress prints them) instead of concatenating onto ABSPATH, so measured asset weights are correct on subdirectory installs.

0.9.1

• The printable report export now routes its stylesheet through the WordPress styles API (wp_add_inline_style) and its print button through wp_print_inline_script_tag() instead of raw <style>/onclick markup.

0.9.0

• Reports now lead with a "Start here" recommendation that highlights your single highest-impact fix and groups related issues. When a deep profile has been run, a banner reconciles the resting score against the measured render time. Page-builder layout weight is now split into live page layout vs. duplicate copies stored in post revisions, so the number reflects what's really there.

0.8.0

• Internationalization: English, German (de_DE), and Persian (fa_IR, full RTL).

0.7.0

• New Jet / Crocoblock scanner: custom-table weight, SmartFilters indexer status, widget-pack footprint, and listing-grid query cost. Added a Jet summary card.

0.6.0

• Dedicated Elementor scanner (CSS print method, asset-loading experiments, saved templates, Font Awesome 4 shim). Profiler panel now shows measured asset weight and outbound calls. Benchmark client ships with a hosted endpoint (opt-in).

0.5.0

• Fixed autoload measurement for WordPress 6.6+ autoload values. Measured loopback audit of front-end assets and outbound HTTP. Benchmark backend scaffolded.

0.4.0

• Report export (HTML / CSV), scheduled scans with an email digest, new Assets / External HTTP / Page Builder scanners, and a live benchmark client.

0.3.0

• Deep profiler (measured render/DB/query/memory), host awareness, "what you fixed" loop, and percentile benchmarking.

0.2.0

• History snapshots, regression detection, per-plugin cost attribution, the consequence translator, breadth scanners, and a "what's healthy" panel.

0.1.0

• Initial release: Site Weight grade and the core diagnostic scanners.