Perfmatters
WordPress plugin · detected on 104 sites in our index (1.92% of WordPress sites scanned)
Where Perfmatters sits in the WordPress plugin ecosystem
Perfmatters is the #124 most-detected WordPress plugin in our scan index of 5,424 sites, appearing on roughly 1.92% of WordPress sites we've fingerprinted. Most sites running Perfmatters are hosted on Kinsta (44% 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 · 76 sites
- Redirection56% of Perfmatters sites · 58 sites
- Akismet Anti-spam: Spam Protection48% 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
- Site Kit by Google: Analytics, Search Console, AdSense, Speed32% of Perfmatters sites · 33 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
- newspaper4% of Perfmatters sites · 4 sites
- Newspack4% of Perfmatters sites · 4 sites
- Hello Elementor3% of Perfmatters sites · 3 sites
- Hello Elementor Child3% of Perfmatters sites · 3 sites
Hosting providers running Perfmatters
Limited to sites where we identified the hosting provider.
- Kinsta44% · 8 sites
- WordPress.com39% · 7 sites
- Pantheon17% · 3 sites
Sites using Perfmatters
Most-recently-scanned sites detected with this plugin.
- petersandmay.comHello Elementor Child · Kinsta · scanned 2026-07-28
- fsiblogx.comHello Elementor · host unknown · scanned 2026-06-06
- wpbeginner.comWPBeginner v7 · host unknown · scanned 2026-06-06
- 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
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.