Perform – Optimize Performance vs Shift8 CDN

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

This is a plugin that integrates a 100% free CDN service operated by Shift8, for your WordPress site. What this means is that you can simply install this plugin, activate and register with our CDN service and all of your static assets on your website will be served through our global content delivery network. Migration Notice Shift8 CDN as a service is migrating into Atomic Edge. Your user account has been migrated to the new dashboard, click here to reset your password. Community Support If you need support, please head over to our community discourse forum for you to more easily access support resources. Check out our new Shift8 CDN website You can now create your own dashboard account to add/remove/manage your sites : Shift8 CDN. Note if you have a site created prior to this dashboard, you can submit a request on the support forums and we can migrate the site for you. Instructions for setup Register for an account by CLICKING HERE Once your account is activated, go to the Shift8 CDN dashboard and click “Create Site” Enter your site URL exactly as it appears (i.e. https://www.yoursite.com) and click “Add” Once added successfully, click “View” to view the site details and copy the API key and CDN prefix Install this WordPress plugin and activate Go to the plugin settings page (Shift8 > CDN Settings) and enter the site url, API key and CDN prefix and then click “Save Changes” Once saved, you can click the “Check” button to ensure everything matches with our system Click the “Test URL” to ensure it actually works and if so , click “Enable Shift8 CDN” at the top of the settings page to enable. You can use this to quickly disable if there are any problems. Instructions for upgrading from a version prior to 1.30 It is important before you upgrade the plugin to disable the CDN and unregister your site. Your site needs to be unregistered before upgrading, otherwise we will have to manually migrate the site for you Once the “Enable Shift8 CDN” setting is disabled, and your site is unregistered, update the plugin via the WordPress plugin update system Once the plugin is updated, head to our site to register your account on our systems Enter your site URL exactly as it appears (i.e. https://www.yoursite.com) and click “Add” Once added successfully, click “View” to view the site details and copy the API key and CDN prefix Go back to the plugin settings page (Shift8 > CDN Settings) and enter the site url, API key and CDN prefix and then click “Save Changes” Once saved, you can click the “Check” button to ensure everything matches with our system Click the “Test URL” to ensure it actually works and if so , click “Enable Shift8 CDN” at the top of the settings page to enable. You can use this to quickly disable if there are any problems. Newly added entpoints New endpoints added : Frankfurt, Germany Ukraine Free Content Delivery Network for your Static Content Shift8 has rolled out a consistently-growing CDN with endpoints all over the world. This plugin will make your site load way faster by using latency-based and geographic-based DNS resolution for requests made to your site to be served by an endpoint closest to the user making the request. This means that a user making a request in Mumbai, India will hit the Mumbai server to download the static content from your website, improving performance remarkably. Current endpoints in use (more added regularly) : USA – Northern California USA – Northern Virginia USA – Dallas, TX USA – Miami, FL Canada – Toronto Europe – London, England Europe – Stockholm, Sweden Europe – Warsaw, Poland Europe – Frankfurt, Germany Europe – Ukraine Asia Pacific – Hong Kong, China Asia Pacific – Tokyo, Japan Asia Pacific – Sydney, Australia Asia Pacific – Singapore Asia Pacific – Mumbai, India Latin America – Sao Paulo, Brazil You can learn more about how the CDN was setup and how it works by reading our blog post. Want to see the plugin in action? You can view three example sites where this plugin is live : Example Site 1 : WordPress Hosting Example Site 2 : Web Design in Toronto Features 100% Free CDN for static assets on your site (CSS, JS, Images, Font files and more) Geographic and latency based DNS routing of requests to the nearest endpoint server across the globe Super easy set up : just install plugin, activate and register to start using within minutes.