Reduce HTTP Requests, Disable Emojis & Disable Embeds, Speedup WooCommerce

I use this plugin on all the sites I work on and it reduces speeds. I only wish author would update it more, because it would be a shame that such a great plugin would go to waste.

This did a great job reducing useless requests and code for emojis, loading dashicons for non-admin users and things like that. It’s a simple install and, as mentioned, it is a free and open source plugin that competes nicely with some paid plugins.

If you just want to get rid of emojis, try Autoptimize (the Extra settings) or Ryan Hellyer’s Disable Emojis plugin, but you’re still going to have all the other stuff this gets rid of.

If you want to pay money, you can match this and maybe get rid of a bit more cruft with the perfmatters Premium plugin ($25/yr).

In my experience, it’s pretty common for an optimization plugin to cause a 500 error. There are a lot of little things that can go wrong and if you are trying to push performance by doing things the platform (WordPress) is not designed to do (in fact is designed NOT to do), you have to be ready for some collateral damage.

In my case, this plugin worked flawlessly, but I would recommend that any plugin like this be tested on a staging platform first and then deployed to a live site.

Hello,

This is my first review, and i am doing it, because the atual ranking is unfair. The plugin should have more positive reviews and more downloads.
It’s a free plugin, with no adverstising. But have the same and more feature then premium or freemium plugins. Just compare it with perfmatters or clearfy (these last, don’t have Woocommerce configurations, for example).

Lets be fair, install and compare all.

I usually do not post reviews unless something is extremely good or extremely bad.

This one falls into the EXTREMELY BAD category. It literally took my site down with a 500 error. I had to manually go into WP, delete the plugin folder, go into my DB and deactivate all the plugins there to finally be able to get into my admin menu and start reactivating those plugins that work.

If you try to do a CLI uninstall through the php script, it returns an error.

STAY AWAY.

⚡ So great! Took <15m to get 2 sites to load in under 3s!

It took me about 15 minutes to do for both my WP sites just now, and it works by allowing people to simply toggle on/off WordPress features they don’t need.

Granted, I am able to disable almost everything because I don’t need many of WordPress’ built-in features, but that’s the point.

Excellent job on this plugin folks. 🙏 Thank you and keep up the good work!