BoltAudit – Plugin & Performance Analyzer
BoltAudit helps you identify bloated, unused, abandoned, and performance-heavy plugins—plus database bloat, autoloaded options, and runtime impact.
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Maintenance & Compatibility
Maintenance score
Maintained • Last updated 117 days ago • 8 reviews
Is BoltAudit – Plugin & Performance Analyzer abandoned?
Likely maintained (last update 117 days ago).
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Description
BoltAudit gives you a clear, actionable overview of what’s slowing down your WordPress site.
It inspects:
– Active plugins and their actual impact on performance
– Unused, abandoned, or rarely-used plugins
– Heavy scripts, enqueued styles, database queries, and metadata
– Autoloaded options, transients, and custom DB tables
– Post details page with orphaned metadata and orphaned post records
– Server environment and PHP configuration
Whether you’re a developer, site owner, or agency, BoltAudit gives you visibility into bottlenecks with zero guesswork.
Features
- Detect unused, outdated, or abandoned plugins
- Full Plugin Audit section: inactive, outdated, abandoned detection
- Plugin-level metrics: action/filter hook counts, cron job schedules, database query counts
- Breaks down post types, metadata, revisions, and orphaned types
- Analyzes option tables, autoloaded data, transients, and more
- Database snapshot with table sizes, row counts, autoload bloat
- Server environment checks: PHP, MySQL, memory limits, upload size
- Lightweight, on-demand diagnostics—no front-end performance impact
- Responsive, accessible UI with performance optimizations
- WooCommerce Overview with product counts and performance insights (HPOS, cart fragments, and more)
Installation
- Upload the
boltauditfolder to/wp-content/plugins/or install via Plugins Add New. - Activate BoltAudit through the Plugins menu.
- Navigate to Tools BoltAudit.
- Click Run Audit to generate your first report.
Frequently Asked Questions
No. BoltAudit runs diagnostics only on demand and does not affect front-end performance.
No. BoltAudit is read-only. It provides insights; you decide what to remove or clean up.
Plugins without updates in the past year or with low support-forum activity are flagged as abandoned.
Yes. BoltAudit was built for heavy-duty environments, including eCommerce, LMS, and community plugins.
Total DB size, number of tables (empty vs. used), autoloaded options, transients, and custom tables to help you spot bloat quickly.
Review feed
Excellent plugin for monitoring asset loading and optimizing performance.
A Must-Have for WordPress Optimization!
A Game Changer Plugin in WordPress Performance Auditing
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Changelog
0.0.8 – 2025-09-05
- Introduced Database Details Page
- Introduced WooCommerce Details Page
- Fix uncaught error
0.0.7 – 2025-08-08
- Introduced Post Details page with orphaned metadata and orphaned post record reports
- Fixed environment “get user ID” issue to ensure accurate username
0.0.6 – 2025-07-30
- Introduced WooCommerce Performance Insights Section
- Added “Settings” link in the plugin page area for quicker navigation
- Fixed plugin fetch error
0.0.5 – 2025-07-25
- Added asset impact metrics: script/style file size and load duration
- Enhanced SinglePluginRepository caching for faster repeated audits
- UI improvements for metrics breakdown
- Bug fixes and performance optimizations
0.0.4 – 2025-07-16
- Added Site Details section
- Fixed Plugin Audit for too many plugins
- Improved Table UI
0.0.3 – 2025-07-13
- Added full Plugin Audit section to detect inactive, outdated, or abandoned plugins
- Warnings for unused or risky plugins
- Improved environment and database reporting
- UI refinements and performance improvements
0.0.2 – 2025-07-05
- Introduced Database Overview: table sizes, row counts, autoloaded options, transients, and bloat detection
- Improved post type detection and metadata analysis
- Minor UI tweaks and wording fixes
0.0.1 – 2025-07-03
- Initial beta release: post-type analyzer & environment report