Perform – Optimize Performance for WordPress Plugin Directory
By Mehul Gohil
Perform – Optimize Performance is a WordPress app, with a 5.0 average rating from 2 reviews, as of Aug 31, 2026.
Perform – Optimize Performance is a WordPress Plugin Directory app by Mehul Gohil. With a rating of 5.0★ from 2 reviews.
AppRanks verdict
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Perform – Optimize Performance is a category-leading WordPress app with a limited review volume. Category data on the canonical marketplace listing is currently incomplete, so AppRanks falls back to platform-wide rather than category-relative comparison for this listing. 2 reviews put it in the early-traction tier — useful for early-stage stores willing to be on the leading edge. Early-traction review counts are sensitive to single launch periods or feature events, so a 30-day re-check before bigger commitments often resolves whether the trend is sustained. Paid-only pricing means evaluating fit on the marketplace listing or via the developer's documentation before installing. AppRanks tracks rating, review count, pricing tier, and category position daily — the figures on this page reflect the most recent scrape from the canonical WordPress Plugin Directory listing.
Pros
- +High average rating (5.0★) signals consistent merchant satisfaction
- +Published by Mehul Gohil — established developer track record
Cons
- −Limited review base (2) — ratings can shift significantly with new feedback
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How Perform – Optimize Performance works
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Perform helps site owners reduce unnecessary frontend work in WordPress. It combines asset controls, cache features, CDN rewriting, and small cleanup modules in one settings area.
Version 1.7.0 focuses on safer, easier-to-understand controls for real sites: a dashboard overview, dashboard-only runtime diagnostics, page cache exclusion and lifecycle controls, an Assets Manager reset action, consistent settings layouts, and Cache Stats integrated into the main settings tabs.
Key capabilities:
Inspect scripts and styles on the current page with the Assets Manager.
Disable selected CSS or JavaScript globally or keep it enabled for specific pages.
Enable full-page caching with cache validation, stale regeneration, preload scheduling, and cache stats.
Add DNS prefetch and preconnect hints for external resources.
Rewrite static asset URLs to a CDN when a CDN URL is configured.
Cache classic WordPress navigation menus on non-block themes.
Remove common frontend extras such as emojis, embeds, query strings, feed links, REST links, shortlinks, and jQuery Migrate.
Adjust Heartbeat, autosave, post revision, and self-pingback behavior.
Apply WooCommerce-specific asset and cart fragment controls when WooCommerce is active.
How Perform works:
Most modules are disabled until you turn them on.
Asset changes are reversible from the Assets Manager.
Existing settings from older Perform versions are preserved during migration.
Developers can customize selected behavior through Perform filters.
Support Project site and release updates: https://performwp.com/
For help and troubleshooting, use our WordPress.org support forum: https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/perform
Contributions and bug reports welcome on GitHub: https://github.com/performwp/perform
Contributors performwp, mehul0810, ankur0812
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What is Perform – Optimize Performance?
Perform – Optimize Performance is an app for WordPress. It currently holds a 5.0-star rating from 2 merchant reviews, and AppRanks has been tracking its public marketplace data on the refresh cadence published in our methodology. AppRanks tracks its category position, review-velocity trend, and the top alternatives in the same space. Developed by Mehul Gohil.