Site Speed Test – SpeedGuard vs BoltAudit – Site Speed Audit and Performance Insights

BoltAudit is a read-only speed audit for WordPress. It scans your site, names the specific plugin, query, asset or database table making it slow, and gives you the measured evidence and the ordered steps to resolve each one. Most speed plugins hand you a score and a checklist. BoltAudit names the thing responsible: a plugin not updated since 2019, 41 images above the fold adding up to 4.2 MB, 12,438 post revisions in your database. It estimates what each costs you in visitors and orders them by what you win back. What BoltAudit does, and what it does not BoltAudit finds the work and ranks it. It does not change your site. Every audit is read-only. You get the finding, the evidence behind it, and ordered steps you can follow or hand to a developer. What happens to your site stays your decision. What the free Local Audit checks The Local Audit runs inside your WordPress admin. Nothing leaves your site, and there is no account, setup or credit card. Plugins, database, server environment and assets, scanned in one pass Mobile and desktop scores, measured separately Estimated visitor loss, with the research behind it published publicly Health Score out of 100, tracked audit over audit Plugin Audit flagging inactive, outdated and abandoned plugins Database Overview: table sizes, row counts, autoloaded options, transients and bloat Post type analysis including orphaned metadata and orphaned post records WooCommerce checks: checkout timing, cart fragments, oversized images, stuck jobs Environment checks with pass and fail states JSON export of every result Unlimited sites AI Audit, optional and account-based The AI Audit runs on the BoltAudit cloud service. It ranks findings by estimated visitors recovered and attaches the evidence behind each one. This feature sends diagnostic data from your site to a third-party service that we operate. Nothing is transmitted until you connect an account and start an audit, and the exact payload is shown to you first. See External services below. Every plan reloads AI credits weekly, including the free one. Works alongside your cache plugin BoltAudit detects WP Rocket, LiteSpeed Cache, W3 Total Cache, WP Super Cache, WP Fastest Cache and Autoptimize, and accounts for what you already have. Where the numbers come from Every visitor-loss figure is an estimate, derived from published abandonment research mapped against your measured load times, and labelled as one everywhere it appears. BoltAudit never reads your analytics. When the engine cannot produce a defensible number it says estimate unavailable rather than inventing one. When a firewall blocks a measurement, it names the blocked check and lowers the report confidence. Privacy and safety Read only. No audit modifies your site, your files or your database. Local audits stay local. Nothing leaves your site unless you run a cloud audit. You see the payload first. The exact list of what will be transmitted is shown before the first AI Audit. No frontend overhead. Audits run on demand in the admin. Nothing loads on your public site. Plans The Local Audit is free, on unlimited sites, with no time limit. Paid plans add more weekly AI credits, scheduled audits and multi-site switching. See boltaudit.com/pricing Roadmap An SEO and AEO visibility audit is in development and is not part of this release. Progress: boltaudit.com/roadmap. Development Methodology behind every estimate: boltaudit.com/methodology External services This plugin connects to an external service that we operate. The free Local Audit does not use it. The service is used only for the AI Audit and for account, plan and credit-balance features. BoltAudit cloud service (app.boltaudit.com) What it is: the hosted audit service operated by BetterDots the same company that publishes this plugin. What it is used for: running an AI Audit, authenticating your account, and reporting your remaining AI credit balance. When data is sent: When you connect your site to a BoltAudit account from the AI Audit screen. Each time you start an AI Audit. When the plugin refreshes your plan status and credit balance while you are on a BoltAudit admin screen. What is sent: your site URL, the WordPress and PHP versions, the active theme, the list of active plugins with their versions, server environment values, database table and option metrics, and the timings collected by the audit. Your account token is sent for authentication. What is not sent: post or page content, media files, user records, customer records, orders, or analytics data. Service: https://app.boltaudit.com Terms of service: https://boltaudit.com/terms Privacy policy: https://boltaudit.com/privacy

Track Core Web Vitals for the entire website and for individual URLs. Mobile and Desktop. Every day. Automatically. For free. No need to guess whether your website performance needs your attention or not – you will get the definite answer in your WordPress Dashboard in a few minutes. With SpeedGuard you get: Core Web Vitals (LCP, CLS, INP) testing for individual URLs of your website PageSpeed Insights (LCP, CLS) for the cases if your website doesn’t have Core Web Vitals yet automatic everyday monitoring both desktop and mobile testing links to the Google PageSpeed Insights reports (that include CWV on top as well) which you can pass to the performance engineer to improve your site speed tests are completely automated — you don’t need to do anything easy to use — just pick pages of your website that you would like to monitor It’s free 🙂 Test performance of any content in WordPress : Posts Pages Events WooCommerce Products any other Custom Post Type Archives Categories Tags any other Custom Taxonomy Idea Behind There is no need to say that performance IS very important. What’s also important — is to understand whether you have to worry about your website performance or it’s doing fine. Google Core Web Vitals are the metrics that Google uses to measure the user experience on the web (real user experience!). If your website passes CWV assessment for Origin — it means that your website is fast enough for the majority of users. If it doesn’t pass — it means that you have to fix this. If it does pass but quite a few specific URLs are not passing — it’s a good time to look into those URLs and improve them to prevent the entrire webstie to be marked as failing CWV. I wanted a simple easy-to-use tool to warn me in case my clients’ websites performance has a bad tendency and needs my attention. I wanted a native WordPress solution, with all information available from the dashboard, simple but still informative, a guard who will do the monitoring every day and ping me, in case something goes wrong. I have not found one and that’s why I’ve built this plugin. I’ll be happy to know that you find it useful as well — please, leave a review. P.S. Note about PageSpeed Insights: you SHOULD always use CWV data in case it is available for your website. In case it is not available (when the website is new and/or doesn’t have enough traffic yet) — use PageSpeed Insights. But you have to remember, that PSI — are lab tests, it’s just an emulation of real users experience. It’s better than nothing, of course. Watch my talk here if you want to understand Core Web Vitals Mystery better.