Some WordPress plugins are a great resource hog on your web server. They end up using most of your server’s CPU and RAM.
You can use the free Query Monitor plugin to find the troublesome plugins. It’ll show you all the scripts, styles, and HTTP API calls that are being loaded by your website, along with their size and loading time. Look out for the ones that have the most number of requests and the slowest load times.
On the test site below, the Classic Editor plugin loads the slowest on the admin side. Other plugins like Loginizer, All-in-One WP Migration, and WP Bakery (formerly Visual Composer) also show up as potential bloat.
We found that the migration plugin is unnecessary and removing it fixed the admin speed considerably.
WooCommerce stores with an international audience use translation plugins like WPML to serve the site dynamically in multiple languages. It’s a great plugin with a lot of features, but it can also slow down your admin backend considerably.
You can gain some performance advantage by switching to a lean translation plugin such as Polylang. It doesn’t have as many features but works great for most use cases.
Plugins that have a lot of ongoing processes/scans will slow your WordPress backend. Some examples include sitemap generators, analytics graphs and charts, page builders, and chat plugins.
