Yossi Aharon

<p>WPtimize is optimization and cleanup plugin for WordPress that cleanup all the unnecessary tags and scripts from your WordPress header and optimize your code for faster loading page speed, security and performance.</p>
<h4>Features</h4>
<ul>
<li>Lightweight plugin and very simple to use.</li>
<li>Allows you to choose which tags do you want to cleanup from your header.</li>
<li>By cleanup of unnecessary tags, scripts and styles it optimize your websites for search engines and speedup your page loading time.</li>
<li>You can see how much memory usage is used.</li>
</ul>
<h4>What actually the plugin do?</h4>
<ul>
<li>Cleans up all the unnecessary tags and scripts from WordPress header includes: RSD, Windows Live, Generator, Shortlink, Feeds, API and more.</li>
<li>Move JS from head to footer.</li>
<li>Remove query strings from JS and CSS files.</li>
<li>Cleanup scripts and styles from none Contact Form 7, WooCommerce and bbPress pages accordingly.</li>
<li>Display the current memory usage and the percent of total usage. </li>
</ul>
<h4>Links</h4>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://www.yossi.co.il/en/" rel="nofollow ugc">Author’s website</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.yossi.co.il/en/wptimize" rel="nofollow ugc">Plugin’s page</a></li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/YossiAharon/WPtimize" rel="nofollow ugc">GitHub repository</a></li>
</ul>


WPtimize

This plugin will cleanup and optimize your WordPress.

John Dalesandro

<p><strong>Head Trimmer</strong> gives you granular control over what WordPress automatically outputs in the HEAD element of every page. Each option is independent; enable only the removals that make sense for your site.</p>
<p>Removing unnecessary HEAD elements reduces page weight, eliminates potential security signatures such as the WordPress version number, and keeps your generated source code clean.</p>
<p>All settings are opt-in. Nothing is removed until you enable it on the Admin <span aria-hidden="true" class="wp-exclude-emoji">→</span> Settings <span aria-hidden="true" class="wp-exclude-emoji">→</span> Head Trimmer screen.</p>
<p>Removal options include:</p>
<ul>
<li>WordPress Version (generator meta tag)</li>
<li>WordPress Version from Script and Style URLs</li>
<li>All Other Version Signatures from Script and Style URLs</li>
<li>Shortlink</li>
<li>Shortlink from HTTP Response Headers</li>
<li>Canonical</li>
<li>Relational Links for Posts Adjacent to Current Post</li>
<li>RSS Feeds (removes head links and disables feed endpoints)</li>
<li>Really Simple Discovery Link for xmlrpc (rsd_link)</li>
<li>Windows Live Writer Manifest File Link (wlwmanifest_link)</li>
<li>oEmbed Discovery Links</li>
<li>REST API Link and REST API Link Header</li>
<li>Emoji Support</li>
<li>Global Styles and SVG Filters (duotone filters)</li>
<li>Gutenberg Block CSS Styles (or optionally set ‘should_load_separate_core_block_assets’ to load block styles only when needed)</li>
<li>Classic Theme CSS Styles (classic-theme-styles)</li>
<li>DNS Prefetch for //s.w.org</li>
<li>DNS Prefetch for Google Fonts //fonts.googleapis.com</li>
<li>jQuery</li>
<li>JavaScript Import Map (added in WordPress 6.5)</li>
<li>Interactivity API (added in WordPress 6.5)</li>
<li>Image Auto Sizes Styles (added in WordPress 6.7)</li>
<li>Speculation Rules (added in WordPress 6.8)</li>
<li>Comment Reply Script (loads only on singular posts and pages where comments are open)</li>
</ul>


Head Trimmer

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