DebugHawk

WordPress performance debugging and monitoring, simplified. DebugHawk gives you deep insight into your WordPress site’s front-end and back-end performance, with the clarity only a tool purpose-built for WordPress can offer.

Here’s an overview of what’s tracked:

Front-end Performance

• Core Web Vitals (LCP, INP, CLS, TTFB, FCP)
• Network performance metrics (DNS lookup, connection time)
• Browser resource tracking (requests, page weight, transfer sizes)

Back-end Performance

• PHP execution time and memory usage
• Database query performance and count
• External HTTP request timing
• Object cache performance
• Page cache effectiveness
• Redirects

How It Works

Once configured, DebugHawk automatically:

1. Monitors Performance – Tracks PHP execution time, database queries, and memory usage on each page load
2. Collects Browser Metrics – Injects a lightweight JavaScript beacon to collect Core Web Vitals and resource timing
3. Encrypts Data – All collected data is encrypted before transmission

The plugin works transparently without any additional user interaction after configuration.

1. Sign up for a DebugHawk account.
2. Upload the plugin files to the /wp-content/plugins/debughawk directory, or install the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ screen.
3. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ screen.
4. Configure the plugin by adding the configuration provided by DebugHawk to your wp-config.php file, above the line that says /* That's all, stop editing! */.

1.1.1

• Ensure db.php drop-in is updated and removed on plugin deactivation

1.1.0

• Beacon script now served from global CDN instead of locally from WordPress
• Send DebugHawk plugin version as part of telemetry payload

1.0.1

• Only track redirects originating from the same domain

1.0.0

• Don’t track /wp-login.php redirects
• Official stable release

0.8.2

• Fixed PHP 8.4 deprecation warning

0.8.1

• Initial release on WordPress.org