WPPerformanceTester
WPPerformanceTester benchmarks your server's performance through a variety of PHP, MySql and WordPress tests
4.3(8 reviews)
·1.0K+ active installs·Updated 1 year agoAs of April 2026, WPPerformanceTester is a WordPress admin plugin with 1.0K+ active installations and a 4.3/5 rating from 8 reviews. It has been downloaded 35K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 3.5+ and PHP false+. Available on WordPress.org since 2015. Last updated 1 year ago — may have compatibility concerns. Download volume is stable this week. Top alternative: Loginizer.
4.3/58 reviews
1.0K+active installs
35K+total downloads
11 yearssince 2015
Overview
WPPerformanceTester was written as a tool to benchmark WordPress in the WordPress Hosting Performance Benchmarks (2015) by Review Signal. Current benchmarks are on WPHostingBenchmarks.com. It was designed to test the server’s performance by stressing PHP, MySql and running $wpdb queries.
WPPerformanceTester performs the following tests
- Math – 100,000 math function tests
- String Manipulation – 100,000 string manipulation tests
- Loops – 1,000,000 loop iterations
- Conditionals – 1,000,000 conditional logic checks
- MySql (connect, select, version, aes_encrypt) – basic mysql functions and 5,000,000 AES_ENCRYPT() iterations
- \$wpdb – 250 insert, select, update and delete operations through \$wpdb
It also allows you to see how your server’s…
Ratings & Reviews
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Recent Reviews
Must have plugin to test your hosting
by ads·3 years ago
We love this plugin! And it recently got updated. Thank you Kevin.
very cool!
by allbutone·4 years ago
Of course the plugin does not differentiate between an own server and a cheap managed hosting, but you can compare the performance of your several hostings.
When the plugin ask for sharing the results, perhaps it should ask too for the kind of hosting.
Thank you for sharing this plugin!
- This topic was modified 4 years, 1 month ago by allbutone.
Works well, my server is exceptionally fast, as expected
by Nick·4 years ago·9 replies
After the dev fixed some reported bugs, the plugin worked again. Hard to say how this translates into website speed, but my server is shown to be considerably faster than the average server.
- This topic was modified 4 years, 6 months ago by Nick.
Still works in 2020
by Michael Kwan·5 years ago·1 reply
Ran it on cPanel, Plesk, and Gridpane based servers. I’m not sure if the results are as intended (as in, whether it’s a false positive), but the plugin still runs without errors on all of them.
Still Works
by Company 50·8 years ago
Pretty simple plugin. Works just fine. Test took about 5 seconds on our pretty-fast VPS servers.
Download Trends
Today: 12Yesterday: 15This week: 76Period total: 4K
Compatibility
| WordPress | 3.5+ requiredTested up to 6.5.8 |
| PHP | false+ required |
Version Adoption
v2.0
91.9%
v0.1
6.8%
v1.1
1.3%
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Frequently Asked Questions
Changelog
2.0.1
(April 23, 2024) Minor security update.
Patched CVE-2023-49844. This vulnerability allowed a CSRF which could have let an attacker make an admin to run benchmark unknowingly.
Contributors
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