bettersecurity

Rik Lewis

Why So Slow?

This plugin will allow you to easily remove bloat and turn off unused features, in order to streamline your website and reduce file requests.
It also includes the following additional functionality: 
– Include <a href="https://instant.page" rel="nofollow ugc">instant.page</a> library (v5.1.0) with settings 
– Add Server-Timing headers to enable better debugging 
– Use passive event listengers to improve scroll performance
This plugin is NOT a caching plugin, but should play well with any caching plugin you decide to use.


Perfect for my needs, as it easily allows me to disable features that I don't need, which streamlines my website and makes it load faster for my users.


Perfect for my needs

Improve the loading speed of your website by removing bloat and unused features (formerly named Better Speed)

Illia Kopturov

UnclutterWP

UnclutterWP is a Core Web Vitals and PageSpeed optimization plugin for WordPress.
Its primary goal is to help site owners improve: 
– LCP (Largest Contentful Paint) 
– CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift) 
– INP (Interaction to Next Paint)
It does this by giving you optional controls to remove unnecessary frontend bloat, disable legacy WordPress features, and reduce unneeded requests.
<h3>Features</h3>
<ul>
<li>Improve Core Web Vitals through optional frontend optimization controls</li>
<li>Reduce render-blocking scripts and styles</li>
<li>Remove unused WordPress assets and discovery links</li>
<li>Disable unnecessary frontend features</li>
<li>Reduce layout shift risk from non-essential scripts</li>
<li>Optimize script loading behavior by removing unneeded runtime features</li>
</ul>
Existing feature controls include: 
– Clean Head Metadata: Removes unnecessary elements from the <code><head></code> output. 
– Disable JSON API Links: Removes JSON and oEmbed discovery output when not needed. 
– Disable REST API: Disables REST API functionality for sites that do not require it. 
– Disable Trackbacks: Disables legacy trackback behavior. 
– Disable Pingback: Disables pingback headers and XML-RPC pingback behavior. 
– Disable Emojis: Removes WordPress emoji scripts and styles. 
– Remove Translations: Disables translation loading where multilingual support is not required. 
– Remove wptexturize: Disables wptexturize processing. 
– Disable Embeds: Disables embed functionality and <code>wp-embed</code> scripts. 
– Remove Gutenberg Styles: Removes front-end block library styles. 
– Remove XMLRPC Pingback Calls: Blocks XML-RPC pingback calls. 
– Admin Cleanup Tools: Optional dashboard widget and admin menu cleanup controls.

UnclutterWP – Core Web Vitals & Performance Optimizer

Improve Core Web Vitals by removing unnecessary WordPress frontend resources, reducing render-blocking overhead, and streamlining script behavior.

Why So Slow? vs UnclutterWP – Core Web Vitals & Performance Optimizer