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12
Aug
06

measuring WordPress performance

At some point you might get curious about how fast or slow WordPress is actually running, especially after a few strange reports that 2.0.4 is running slower.

I had tinkered with Jerome’s Query Diagnostics plugin:
http://vapourtrails.ca/wp-plugins (at the bottom of the page)

but on the WordPress IRC I just learned about
libertus’ interesting “performance probe” plugin
http://libertini.net/libertus/wordpress-plugins/performance-probe/
which looks even more fascinating… (also see his other posts here and here)

added: apparently I can’t use his plugin (as many people on shared servers will discover) since my PHP was not compiled with the “–enable-memory-limit configuration option” – there is also a php function called “memory-get-peak-usage” which might be helpful to some.

Be sure to see all the links on the right hand side on my main page here for more performance and development plugins/info on WordPress.

By the way I made a subtle enhancement to Jerome’s output, the code follows below the break:
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