Performance Lab
slug: performance-lab
WordPress plugin by WordPress Performance Team · detected on 51 sites in our index (0.96% 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 #204 most-detected WordPress plugin in our scan index of 5,328 sites — appearing on roughly 0.96% 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
- Twenty Twenty-Four4% of Performance Lab sites · 2 sites
- Press Ganey V34% of Performance Lab sites · 2 sites
- Zox News Child2% of Performance Lab sites · 1 site
- SundaySky 20222% of Performance Lab sites · 1 site
- Enfold Child2% 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.