Perfmatters
WordPress plugin · detected on 103 sites in our index (1.93% of WordPress sites scanned)
Where Perfmatters sits in the WordPress plugin ecosystem
Perfmatters is the #123 most-detected WordPress plugin in our scan index of 5,328 sites — appearing on roughly 1.93% of WordPress sites we've fingerprinted. Most sites running Perfmatters are hosted on Kinsta (41% of identified hosts). The most common companion plugin is Yoast SEO – Advanced SEO with real-time guidance and built-in AI, present on 73% of Perfmatters sites. The most frequent theme is Newspack Scott.
Every data point here comes from actual scans of public WordPress sites — not vendor case studies or curated showcases. We don't accept submissions; everything you see is detected automatically when a site is scanned through the tool.
Plugins commonly used with Perfmatters
From co-occurrence analysis across sites running Perfmatters in our index.
- Yoast SEO – Advanced SEO with real-time guidance and built-in AI73% of Perfmatters sites · 75 sites
- Redirection55% of Perfmatters sites · 57 sites
- Akismet Anti-spam: Spam Protection49% of Perfmatters sites · 50 sites
- Jetpack – WP Security, Backup, Speed, & Growth36% of Perfmatters sites · 37 sites
- wpcom32% of Perfmatters sites · 33 sites
- Jetpack Boost – Website Speed, Performance and Critical CSS32% of Perfmatters sites · 33 sites
- my-jetpack32% of Perfmatters sites · 33 sites
- coauthors31% of Perfmatters sites · 32 sites
Themes commonly running Perfmatters
Top themes on sites using this plugin.
- Newspack Scott17% of Perfmatters sites · 17 sites
- Newspack Katharine5% of Perfmatters sites · 5 sites
- Newspack4% of Perfmatters sites · 4 sites
- newspaper4% of Perfmatters sites · 4 sites
- Hello Elementor3% of Perfmatters sites · 3 sites
- Restaurant365 Theme2% of Perfmatters sites · 2 sites
Hosting providers running Perfmatters
Limited to sites where we identified the hosting provider.
- Kinsta41% · 7 sites
- WordPress.com41% · 7 sites
- Pantheon18% · 3 sites
Sites using Perfmatters
Most-recently-scanned sites detected with this plugin.
- ppic.orgPPIC · Pantheon · scanned 2026-05-22
- preppykitchen.comSeasoned Pro · host unknown · scanned 2026-05-22
- smartuigroup.com.auSmart UI Group · host unknown · scanned 2026-05-22
- insightly.comInsightly · Kinsta · scanned 2026-05-22
- troypoint.comAstra · host unknown · scanned 2026-05-22
- alphr.comAlphr · host unknown · scanned 2026-05-22
- hostpress.deHello-Elementor Child · host unknown · scanned 2026-05-22
- thecity.nycNewspack Scott · host unknown · scanned 2026-05-22
- totvs.comTOTVS Institucional · host unknown · scanned 2026-05-22
- insanelygoodrecipes.cominsanely-good-recipes-2025 · host unknown · scanned 2026-05-22
- vtdigger.orgNewspack Scott · host unknown · scanned 2026-05-22
- halfbakedharvest.comHalf Baked Harvest 2020 · host unknown · scanned 2026-05-22
How we detect Perfmatters
Five-vector detection — /wp-content/plugins/perfmatters/ asset paths, /wp-json/ REST API namespaces, HTML signature patterns, sitemap XML comments, and asset-probe HEAD requests against the top-100 popular plugins on wordpress.org. Each detected plugin carries provenance pills showing which sources corroborated it — cross-vector matches indicate high-confidence detections. More on how detection works.
Data comes from real-time scans of public WordPress sites — not vendor case studies or curated showcases. Every claim on this page traces back to a specific detection in our scan corpus, observable via our methodology. Affiliate links are disclosed per the affiliate disclosure.