Performance Lab
slug: performance-lab
WordPress plugin by WordPress Performance Team · detected on 51 sites in our index (0.94% of WordPress sites scanned)
Performance plugin from the WordPress Performance Team, which is a collection of standalone performance features.
Where Performance Lab sits in the WordPress plugin ecosystem
Performance Lab is the #208 most-detected WordPress plugin in our scan index of 5,424 sites, appearing on roughly 0.94% of WordPress sites we've fingerprinted. Most sites running Performance Lab are hosted on Kinsta (50% of identified hosts). The most common companion plugin is Yoast SEO: Advanced SEO with real-time guidance and built-in AI, present on 71% of Performance Lab sites. The most frequent theme is Hello Elementor.
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 Performance Lab
From co-occurrence analysis across sites running Performance Lab in our index.
- Yoast SEO: Advanced SEO with real-time guidance and built-in AI71% of Performance Lab sites · 36 sites
- Redirection45% of Performance Lab sites · 23 sites
- optimization-detective33% of Performance Lab sites · 17 sites
- Akismet Anti-spam: Spam Protection29% of Performance Lab sites · 15 sites
- Yoast Duplicate Post29% of Performance Lab sites · 15 sites
- Wordfence Security: Firewall, Malware Scan, and Login Security27% of Performance Lab sites · 14 sites
- Site Kit by Google: Analytics, Search Console, AdSense, Speed27% of Performance Lab sites · 14 sites
- wpe25% of Performance Lab sites · 13 sites
Themes commonly running Performance Lab
Top themes on sites using this plugin.
- Hello Elementor6% of Performance Lab sites · 3 sites
- Press Ganey V34% of Performance Lab sites · 2 sites
- Twenty Twenty-Four4% of Performance Lab sites · 2 sites
- Astra Child2% of Performance Lab sites · 1 site
- avada2% of Performance Lab sites · 1 site
- Best Life Online2% of Performance Lab sites · 1 site
Hosting providers running Performance Lab
Limited to sites where we identified the hosting provider.
Sites using Performance Lab
Most-recently-scanned sites detected with this plugin.
- dissentmagazine.orgdissent-rumors-mobile · host unknown · scanned 2026-05-22
- leapevents.comleap-events-theme · host unknown · scanned 2026-05-22
- investireoggi.itFox - Child Theme · host unknown · scanned 2026-05-22
- innocenceproject.orgip-website · host unknown · scanned 2026-05-22
- prosettings.netProsettings Theme · host unknown · scanned 2026-05-22
- wattsupwiththat.comMagazineNP · host unknown · scanned 2026-05-22
- entertainmentnow.comGeneratePress EntNow · host unknown · scanned 2026-05-22
- pewresearch.orgPRC Design System · host unknown · scanned 2026-05-22
- modernfarmer.comModern Farmer · host unknown · scanned 2026-05-22
- quickanddirtytips.comSmartMag Child · host unknown · scanned 2026-05-22
- wbcsd.orgWBCSD Theme · host unknown · scanned 2026-05-22
- greenme.itGreenme New · host unknown · scanned 2026-05-22
How we detect Performance Lab
Five-vector detection: /wp-content/plugins/performance-lab/ 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.