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Light and Smart

Lighten your Wordpress website by optimizing source code. Enhance its usability by adding some analytics.

By Emil E·Optimize·Free
5(1 reviews)
·10 active installs·Updated 4 months ago
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As of April 2026, Light and Smart is a WordPress Optimize plugin with 10 active installations and a 5/5 rating from 1 reviews. It has been downloaded 1.0K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 4.5+ and PHP 7.0+. Available on WordPress.org since 2020. Top alternative: LiteSpeed Cache.

5/51 reviews
10active installs
1.0K+total downloads
6 yearssince 2020

Overview

  1. Lighten your WordPress website by optimizing source code.
  • This plugin enables you to easily remove bunches of codes that is usually present on every page of your WordPress website but is rarely needed. Lighter and lean source code of the HTML pages generated by WordPress generally results in a faster load speed of the website itself.
  1. Enhance its usability by adding some analytics.
  • Secondly, this plugin enables you to easily add some analytics, namely Google Analytics (gtag.js), Google Tag Manager (with some possible restrictions depending on how up to date is your theme) and Facebook pixel (general abilities, only your Pixel ID is needed. In case you need a more fine grained control, please use the official WordPress integration tool provided by Facebook).
  1. Add Facebook OpenGraph…
Read full description on WordPress.org

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Ratings & Reviews

51 reviews
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Compatibility

WordPress4.5+ requiredTested up to 6.8.5
PHP7.0+ required

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Frequently Asked Questions

Changelog

1.1.1

  • Added ability to test OG tags for each post/page
View full changelog on WordPress.org

Contributors

Emil EEmil E
Plugin Info
Version
1.1.1
Last Updated
Nov 7, 2025
WP Requires
4.5+
Tested Up To
6.8.5
PHP Requires
7.0+
Active Installs
10
Downloads
1.0K+
Added
Jul 29, 2020
Business
Free

Tags

optimizeanalyticsgeneratorfacebook pixelopengraph tags

Developer

E
Emil E
1 plugins0.0M+ total installs
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