Performance Lab vs WP Meteor Website Speed Optimization Addon

The Performance Lab plugin is a collection of features focused on enhancing the performance of your site, most of which should eventually be merged into WordPress core. The plugin facilitates the discovery and activation of the individual performance feature plugins which the performance team is developing. In this way you can test the features to get their benefits before they become available in WordPress core. You can also play an important role by providing feedback to further improve the solutions. The feature plugins which are currently featured by this plugin are: Embed Optimizer Enhanced Responsive Images Image Placeholders Image Prioritizer Instant Back/Forward Modern Image Formats Optimization Detective (dependency for Embed Optimizer and Image Prioritizer) Performant Translations Speculative Loading View Transitions (experimental) These plugins can also be installed separately from installing Performance Lab, but having the Performance Lab plugin also active will ensure you find out about new performance features as they are developed.

WP Meteor offers an original way to further optimize your website speed. With this plugin you can increase your PageSpeed score by up to 5x. The plugin is 100% free, it is compatible and works well with most popular caching plugins like: * Autoptimize * WP Rocket * WP Total Cache * WP Super Cache * Phastpress * LiteSpeed * Hummingbird * WP Fastest Cache * SiteGround Optimizer It also works well with website builders like Elementor or with image optimizers like ShortPixel. The few known incompatibilities are listed in the FAQ. BENEFITS WP Meteor can improve your Pagespeed results and the actual loading time of your website by up to 5x! After changing performance settings, use Watchero to capture and compare pages before and after optimization. And since the plugin is designed to leave no traces on your hard drive or database when deactivated and removed, there is no risk for you. HOW IT WORKS If the user does not interact with the page immediately, WP Meteor defers loading and firing scripts until the page is rendered, which increases the pagespeed metric, on average, by 2-5x. This delay in loading scripts greatly improves perceived load times for your visitors. It also significantly improves the following important SEO metrics: Page Speed Largest Contentful Paint (LCP) Time To Interactive (TTI) Total Blocking Time (TBT) VERIFY SITE CHANGES AFTER OPTIMIZATION Performance changes, WordPress core updates, and plugin or theme updates can affect pages you do not manually check. Watchero helps capture and compare screenshots across entire sites, so agencies, freelancers, and managed hosting providers can spot visual breakages before customers do.