Forge12 Interactive GmbH

F12 Profiler analyzes your WordPress site comprehensively and delivers concrete, prioritized recommendations to improve load times. The plugin combines server diagnostics, asset analysis, database optimization, and plugin impact assessment in a modern, clean interface.
<h4>Features</h4>
Analysis & Diagnostics
<ul>
<li>Server analysis (PHP, MySQL, OPcache, web server, SSL, HTTP/2, compression)</li>
<li>Automatic site crawler with load time measurement (desktop & mobile)</li>
<li>Asset analysis (CSS, JS, images) with optimization potential</li>
<li>OPcache status & configuration recommendations</li>
<li>PHP profiler (runtime, queries, hooks, plugin ranking, culprit analysis)</li>
<li>Plugin impact analysis (assets, hooks, queries per plugin)</li>
<li>PageSpeed Insights integration (Lighthouse Scores + Core Web Vitals + CrUX)</li>
<li>Performance score with 6 weighted categories (A-F grades, trend delta)</li>
<li>Recommendation engine with automatic optimization suggestions</li>
</ul>
Optimization Tools
<ul>
<li>Lazy Loading (images and iframes)</li>
<li>Font Display Optimization (font-display: swap/optional/fallback/block)</li>
<li>Script Defer Manager (automatic defer for scripts with exclusion list)</li>
<li>Auto Image Dimensions (prevents Layout Shifts / CLS)</li>
<li>HTML Minification (whitespace, comments, empty attributes)</li>
<li>CSS/JS Minification (file-based cache)</li>
<li>WordPress Bloat Removal (emojis, embeds, Dashicons, jQuery Migrate, XML-RPC, Heartbeat, and more)</li>
<li>Browser Cache (.htaccess-based)</li>
<li>DNS Prefetch & Preconnect (domain detection from asset scan)</li>
<li>Database Analysis (8 categories with detail view)</li>
<li>Autoload Manager (granular wp_options management)</li>
<li>Background Asset Scanner with conflict detection</li>
<li>File-based Page Cache with TTL and URL exclusion (Pro)</li>
<li>CSS/JS Asset Manager – disable, defer, async per page or globally (Pro)</li>
<li>Conditional Loading – shortcode, block, regex, archive, login status, post type, plugin (Pro)</li>
<li>Smart auto-suggestions with source-based plugin detection after full scan (Pro)</li>
<li>Asset Preload Manager – Link headers for critical assets (Pro)</li>
<li>Critical CSS Generator & Applier – above-the-fold CSS per template (Pro)</li>
<li>Unused CSS Removal – per page template, safelist, regex safelist (Pro)</li>
<li>WebP Image Conversion with batch queue and backup (Pro)</li>
<li>LQIP Image Placeholders – 20px blur-up previews with IntersectionObserver (Pro)</li>
<li>Preload Key Requests – LCP images, fonts, critical resources (Pro)</li>
<li>Script Delay – delays third-party JS until first user interaction (Pro)</li>
<li>Local Google Fonts – GDPR-compliant WOFF2 self-hosting (Pro)</li>
<li>YouTube/Vimeo Facade – thumbnail + play button instead of iframe (Pro)</li>
<li>Database Cleanup – one-click per category or bulk action (Pro)</li>
<li>Redis Object Cache Management – drop-in installation/removal (Pro)</li>
<li>Scheduled Crawls & Cleanups via WP-Cron (Pro)</li>
<li>Performance Budgets with email/webhook notifications (Pro)</li>
<li>Settings Import/Export as JSON (Pro)</li>
<li>One-Click Optimizer – automated optimization with backup & restore (Pro)</li>
<li>License Management with activation/deactivation (Pro)</li>
</ul>
User Interface
<ul>
<li>Modern iOS-style design system</li>
<li>React 18 + TypeScript SPA</li>
<li>30+ pages/tools with dedicated configuration</li>
<li>Context-sensitive info sections on all pages</li>
<li>Pro features visible with lock icon and upgrade prompt</li>
</ul>
<a href="https://www.forge12.com/f12-profiler-pro/" rel="nofollow ugc">Get F12 Profiler Pro</a>
<h4>System Requirements</h4>
<ul>
<li>WordPress 6.0 or higher</li>
<li>PHP 8.0 or higher</li>
<li>MySQL 5.7 / MariaDB 10.3 or higher</li>
</ul>

F12 Profiler

Excellent! After P3 doesn’t work with PHP7+ anymore, F12 seems finally the one stepping in to fill that gap.

Update [18-Jun-19]. After some small contributions of mine to the dev efforts, the plugin developer has decided to add me to the team, long after this review was written.

Finally an alternative to P3

Comprehensive WordPress performance analysis with crawling, load time measurement, server diagnostics, and integrated optimization tools. Free.

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MySQL Profiler displays debugging information about SQL queries to admin WordPress users. For each query, the profiler displays the time, syntax-highlighted SQL, and a trace of the functions (as well as the file and line number that the functions were called from) that were called.
The list can be sorted by any of its columns, so you can, for example:
<ul>
<li>Order the list by ID to see the chronological order of the queries</li>
<li>Order the list by time to see the slowest queries</li>
<li>Order the list by query to group the queries by type (SELECT, UPDATE, etc)</li>
<li>Order the list by trace to group the queries by similar origins</li>
</ul>
The list can also filtered by typing in the search box, so you can, for example:
<ul>
<li>View all queries that use the wp_posts table</li>
<li>View all queries that are related to the use of a function in taxonomy.php</li>
<li>View all queries that are related to the use of a specific function or class</li>
<li>View all queries that call a specific MySQL function</li>
</ul>
To turn off syntax highlighting, put the following in wp-config.php:
<pre><code>define('MP_HIGHLIGHT_SYNTAX', false);
</code></pre>
To omit the file and line number from the function trace and display the functions as a comma-separated list (to save vertical space), define the following in wp-config.php:
<pre><code>define('MP_DISPLAY_FILES', false);
</code></pre>
This plugin was loosely based on <a href="http://bueltge.de/" rel="nofollow ugc">Frank Bueltge</a>‘s <a href="https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/debug-queries/" rel="ugc">Debug Queries</a> plugin, so a hearty thanks to him for the development of that.
If you’d like to grab development releases, see what new features are being added, or browse the source code please visit/follow the <a href="http://github.com/tombenner/mysql-profiler" rel="nofollow ugc">GitHub repo</a>.

MySQL Profiler

Displays a list of each page's SQL queries and the functions calling them that can be searched and sorted by time, type, etc.

F12 Profiler vs MySQL Profiler