Performance Impact Headers Security Advanced & HSTS WP receives an estimated speed score of A. Our real benchmark tests measured the following impact when activating this plugin: TTFB impact: +2 ms Memory impact: +0.0 MB Additional DB queries: +5 Overall activation impact: low. This plugin adds minimal overhead to your WordPress site. Maintenance Status Last … Read more
Performance Impact hCaptcha for WP receives an estimated speed score of A-. Our real benchmark tests measured the following impact when activating this plugin: TTFB impact: +-3 ms Memory impact: +0.0 MB Additional DB queries: +0 Overall activation impact: low. This plugin adds minimal overhead to your WordPress site. Maintenance Status Last updated: 2026-02-08. Requires … Read more
Performance Impact Defender Security – Malware Scanner, Login Security & Firewall receives an estimated speed score of D+. Our real benchmark tests measured the following impact when activating this plugin: TTFB impact: +7 ms Memory impact: +2.0 MB Additional DB queries: +44 Overall activation impact: high. This plugin adds significant overhead. Consider alternatives if performance … Read more
Performance Impact All In One Login — WP Admin Login Page Security and Customization with Google reCAPTCHA, Social Login, Limit Login Attempt, 2FA, and more. receives an estimated speed score of B-. Our real benchmark tests measured the following impact when activating this plugin: TTFB impact: +0 ms Memory impact: +0.0 MB Additional DB queries: … Read more
Performance Impact Blackhole for Bad Bots receives an estimated speed score of A-. Our real benchmark tests measured the following impact when activating this plugin: TTFB impact: +7 ms Memory impact: +0.0 MB Additional DB queries: +2 Overall activation impact: low. This plugin adds minimal overhead to your WordPress site. Maintenance Status Last updated: 2026-02-06. … Read more
Performance Impact Titan Anti-spam & Security receives an estimated speed score of C+. Our real benchmark tests measured the following impact when activating this plugin: TTFB impact: +3 ms Memory impact: +0.0 MB Additional DB queries: +27 Overall activation impact: moderate. This plugin adds moderate overhead. Monitor your site speed after installation. Maintenance Status Last … Read more
Performance Impact WPS Limit Login receives an estimated speed score of A. Our real benchmark tests measured the following impact when activating this plugin: TTFB impact: +-1 ms Memory impact: +0.0 MB Additional DB queries: +0 Overall activation impact: low. This plugin adds minimal overhead to your WordPress site. Maintenance Status Last updated: 2025-06-24. Trusted … Read more
Performance Impact WP Mail Logging receives an estimated speed score of A-. Our real benchmark tests measured the following impact when activating this plugin: TTFB impact: +1 ms Memory impact: +0.0 MB Additional DB queries: +0 Overall activation impact: low. This plugin adds minimal overhead to your WordPress site. Maintenance Status Last updated: 2025-09-09. Requires … Read more
Performance Impact WP 2FA – Two-factor authentication for WordPress receives an estimated speed score of A-. Our real benchmark tests measured the following impact when activating this plugin: TTFB impact: +2 ms Memory impact: +0.0 MB Additional DB queries: +17 Overall activation impact: moderate. This plugin adds moderate overhead. Monitor your site speed after installation. … Read more
Performance Impact Wordfence Security – Firewall, Malware Scan, and Login Security could not be measured by our automated benchmark, and we mark it permanently un-benchmarkable. It is a full firewall and security suite that loads before WordPress on every request and hooks into WP-CLI itself, so an isolated before/after test never completes — across repeated … Read more