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WordPress Build a Website with WordPress Plugin Best Practices Finding, Installing and Updating WordPress Plugins

Posted by Martin Lindsey
Martin Lindsey
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Number of plugins

What is considered the optimal number of plugins before a site's page loads begin to slow down?

1 Answer

Kevin Korte
Kevin Korte
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Kevin Korte
Kevin Korte
28,149 Points

Depends on the plugins, really. The only think you can do is monitor your sites load times each time you add a new one in. Some will have basically no hit on performance, and another one my have a noticeable hit. Take it at a case by case basis.