Introducing "Copy console" in Chrome DevTools: one-click copy all console messages. Useful for pasting into LLMs / AI Code Editors for better fixes.

New in Chrome DevTools: Performance panel now highlights images whose file size you can optimize.

Version 2.3.9 of perfmatters is live! - *New* perfmatters_preloads_array filter. Gives you access to the preloads data array for use in custom integrations. 👨‍🔧 - *New* perfmatters_minify_threshold filter. Turn off the size threshold check when dealing with a lot of encoded

Version 2.4.0 of perfmatters is live! - *New* perfmatters_rucss_async_stylesheets filter. You can now async any stylesheet that you want. - Added built-in async settings for dashicons and animation stylesheets. Improves Elementor performance. ⚡ - Added additional logic to

Version 2.4.1 of perfmatters is live! We refactored our delay JS inline script, including removing the pageshow event listener and more aggressively uglifying the code. This resulted in a 15%+ decrease in the script size (32% uncompressed). 🔥 It's in addition to the 8%

Version 2.4.3 of perfmatters is live! *New* Speculative Loading options for sites running WordPress 6.8 or higher. You can change the mode and eagerness. ⚡ - We are deprecating Instant Page for anyone running WordPress 6.8 or higher. Speculative Loading is ~78% less JS code,

I needed a guide on how to improve the performance of the WordPress dashboard, and I found this one from perfmatters really helpful perfmatters.io/docs/speed-up-… 🚀

It's no secret I love working with GeneratePress clients! It's the solution I've used to build all of our sites since 2017. ❤️⚡ Here are some tips on using both perfmatters + GeneratePress together. Thanks Kathy Zant for putting this together! 👏 generatepress.com/using-perfmatt…

Big changes are coming to PageSpeed Insights. Lighthouse is moving to performance insight audits. 😮🔥 - ETA is October 2025. 🗓️ - There is a switcher in the meantime to get used to things. - Some audits are being renamed while others are being removed. developer.chrome.com/blog/moving-li…

On June 19th, I'll be doing a website performance AMA! ⚡🚀 Got something you want to ask me? Submit your questions and sign up for the event here: theadminbar.com/events/website… Big thanks to Kyle Van Deusen for putting this together.

Version 2.4.4 of perfmatters is live! - *New* exclude leading option for lazy loading CSS background images. This allows you to more quickly and broadly target containers and then automatically exclude a hero CSS background image from lazy loading. ⚡ - *New* speculative

Version 2.4.6 of perfmatters is live! - *New* advanced preload option to enable Cloudflare Early Hints (BETA) for Perfmatters preloads, along with controls to limit which file types will have early hint link headers sent. This can help improve LCP by loading resources sooner

Version 2.4.7 of perfmatters is live! - *New* support to set the Perfmatters license key via wp-config.php using the PERFMATTERS_LICENSE_KEY constant. 🔑 This has been highly requested from our agency clients. - *New* perfmatters_fetch_priority filter. - *New* integration to

Version 2.4.8 of perfmatters is live! - Added built-in stylesheet exclusion for Bricks layer stylesheets. - Adjusted emoji_svg_url filter to only return false outside the admin dashboard. - Updated early hint attribute check to include sizes and media attributes. ⚡ -

Version 2.5.0 of perfmatters is live! A quick update for the WP-CLI folks. 😄 - *New* WP-CLI subcommands: clear-minified-js, clear-minified-css, and clear-local-fonts. 👨‍💻 - Added support for targeting header element when using parent selector matching functions. - Added

Version 2.5.1 of perfmatters is live! - Added a fetchpriority high attribute on critically preloaded image tags to match the preload link attribute. This resolves a PSI warning in certain instances. ⚡ - Added new buffer function to check the viewport meta tag position and

perfmatters You guys rock 🤘 Thanks for saving me and all my client sites. one of the best plugins for WordPress. And the best thing 👉no crazy renewal hikes, loyal customers keep paying the same price. Not like WP 🚀

You can now sign up for free changelog notifications for Perfmatters thanks to @changelogwp. 👏📨 changelogwp.com/plugin/perfmat…

Version 2.5.2 of perfmatters is live! - *New* perfmatters_rucss_inline_stylesheets filter. This allows you to inline any stylesheet already excluded from used CSS. ⚡ - Reworked the Script Manager input change event listener for better compatibility with other JavaScript

We like testing things for ourselves. So we added perfmatters to a plain WPBakery site just to see what happens. No caching, no CDN - and still got a small but steady performance lift. Full details, setup and scores below: buff.ly/TfdWAO2