BoltAudit – Site Speed Audit and Performance Insights vs Total CrUX

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research behind it published publicly Health Score out of 100, tracked audit over audit Plugin Audit flagging inactive, outdated and abandoned plugins Database Overview: table sizes, row counts, autoloaded options, transients and bloat Post type analysis including orphaned metadata and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

Total CrUX allows you to measure the real user experience on your site thanks to Core Web Vitals. The plugin captures and stores key metrics such as: LCP (Largest Contentful Paint) – loading performance of the main content. FID (First Input Delay) – responsiveness to first user interaction. CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift) – visual stability. FCP (First Contentful Paint). INP (Interaction to Next Paint) – the new key responsiveness metric. TTFB (Time To First Byte). In addition, it collects extended diagnostic information (involved elements, render timings, resources, user interaction details, etc.), helping you identify which elements are negatively impacting user experience. Inside the WordPress admin area, you’ll find: A dashboard with aggregated site-wide metrics. A “To Improve” tab showing the worst-performing pages. A dropdown button with an option called “Details” that opens a right-side drawer with extended details. With Total CrUX, you make decisions based on real user data, not just lab simulations. Bundled third-party libraries This plugin includes local copies of the following third-party libraries, stored in the directory admin/assets/vendor/js/. These files are served directly from the plugin and correspond to the versions indicated below. The human-readable source code for each library is available in their official repositories: Alpine.js (MIT License) Version: 3.15.0 Local copy: admin/assets/vendor/js/alpine.js (obtained from https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/alpinejs@3.15.0/dist/cdn.min.js) Source code: https://github.com/alpinejs/alpine Chart.js (MIT License) Version: 4.5.0 Local copy: admin/assets/vendor/js/chart.js (obtained from https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/chart.js@4.5.0/dist/chart.umd.min.js) Source code: https://github.com/chartjs/Chart.js Web Vitals (Apache-2.0 License) Version: 5.1.0 Local copy: admin/assets/vendor/js/web-vitals.js (obtained from https://unpkg.com/web-vitals@5.1.0/dist/web-vitals.attribution.iife.js) Source code: https://github.com/GoogleChrome/web-vitals External services This plugin makes use of the external service LucusHost Affiliate Network. What the service is and what it is used for: On the plugin’s ‘Support us’ tab, a promotional banner for LucusHost is displayed. This banner is served from LucusHost’s affiliate system. It is purely informational and promotional. What data is sent and when: When the admin page containing the banner is loaded, the plugin makes a request to LucusHost’s servers (aff.lucushost.com) to fetch the banner image. This request includes standard web request information (such as IP address, browser information, and the referring page). If you click on the banner, you will be redirected to LucusHost’s website through our affiliate link. If you make a purchase, we may receive a commission. This does not result in any extra cost for you, and in fact we provide a 20% discount code (ARTEDELAWEB-20) as part of this affiliate program. Service provider / links: LucusHost — Affiliate program: https://www.lucushost.com/afiliados Legal notice & Privacy policy: https://www.lucushost.com/aviso-legal