Autoptimize vs PromPress

Autoptimize makes optimizing your site really easy. It can aggregate, minify and cache scripts and styles, injects CSS in the page head by default but can also inline critical CSS and defer the aggregated full CSS, moves and defers scripts to the footer and minifies HTML. You can optimize and lazy-load images (with support for WebP and AVIF formats), optimize Google Fonts, async non-aggregated JavaScript, remove WordPress core emoji cruft and more. As such it can improve your site’s performance even when already on HTTP/2! There is extensive API available to enable you to tailor Autoptimize to each and every site’s specific needs. If you think performance indeed is important, you should at least consider one of the many free page caching plugins (e.g. Speed Booster pack or KeyCDN’s Cache Enabler) to complement Autoptimize or even consider Autoptimize Pro which not only has page caching but also image optimization, CDN, critical CSS and more! Autoptimize Pro Autoptimize Pro is a premium Power-Up, adding image optimization, CDN, page caching, automatic critical CSS rules and extra “booster” options, all in one handy subscription to make your site even faster!! Premium Support We provide great Premium Support and Web Performance Optimization services with Accelera, check out our offering on https://accelerawp.com/! (Speed-surfing image under creative commons by LL Twistiti)

PromPress tracks various website and WordPress related metrics for collection by Prometheus, which allows you to monitor your site’s performance and health. You can even setup dashboards with Grafana and/or setup alerting via Prometheus Alertmanager. (Note: Requires Object Caching via Redis to be active, so that the plugin can store metrics.) We track a range of Website and WordPress specific metrics: Request Count Request Duration Request Peak Memory Usage External Request Duration Query Count Query Duration Plugin Updates Theme Updates Emails Sent User Count Post Count Option Count This gives you the ability to monitor the performance of your website over time and get an early warning of potential problems, like your site sending a lot of emails or the post count increasing a lot. We purposefully avoid general software and/or server level metrics which are better handled outside of the website, like detailed database metrics which is better handled via the mysqld exporter.