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MakeWPFast is a WordPress performance lab focused on the backend bottlenecks that caching plugins and CDNs can't fix.
While 90% of WordPress speed advice is about the frontend โ compressing images, minifying CSS, adding cache
layers โ the real slowdown usually lives deeper: bloated wp_options autoload data, unoptimized database
queries, and PHP memory that grows with every plugin you install.
### What we do
### How it works
Every entry is backed by real benchmark data, not opinion. We install each plugin in a controlled environment, measure the before/after delta on database queries, autoload weight, and page render time, then publish a speed score you can trust.
### Who it's for
Developers, agencies, and site owners who want to know which plugins actually slow WordPress down.
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As a mini-blog, it is a nice alternative for Medium to publish and share information about programming.
However, the community and the organization are biased toward social justice (and they are open to it). You can read its Code of Conduct, it is so vague and politically leads (I prefer a term of service because it defines fair rules for everybody). So it alienates developers that we don't care about politics in pro of people that want to talk about any other topic such as sexuality, how women are unprivileged, and such. It even mandates to use inclusive language. Good grief.
My main complaint is the quality of the community. It is not StackOverflow (so we don't want to ask for an answer here), and most of the top topics are clickbait, such as "how to become a rockstar developer in ... days", "100 tips to become a better programmer" (and it doesn't even talk about programming).
Technically this "mini blog" site allows us to use markdown, and it is okay. However, the whole experience is really basic. Even the template is ugly.
Based on our record, DEV.to seems to be a lot more popular than MakeWPFast. While we know about 651 links to DEV.to, we've tracked only 2 mentions of MakeWPFast. We are tracking product recommendations and mentions on various public social media platforms and blogs. They can help you identify which product is more popular and what people think of it.
The search box on the homepage now runs keyword, semantic, and hybrid search, with a toggle so you can compare and watch them disagree. Type pydub and flip to semantic mode to see it get the answer wrong; flip to hybrid to see it get it right again. The whole thing is a 4 MB lookup table, a tiny document index, and about 300 lines of dependency-free JavaScript, lazy-loaded only when you focus the search box so the... - Source: dev.to / about 19 hours ago
Start tracking costs from day one with a tool like Tokonomics. Start charging when AI costs exceed 15% of revenue or when you see a clear 10x+ variance between your lightest and heaviest users. Early-stage startups can absorb costs temporarily for growth, but set the expectation early that AI features have usage-based pricing. - Source: dev.to / about 19 hours ago
Python -m pip install unlimited-search Unlimited-search read https://dev.to --max-content-chars 1500. - Source: dev.to / 7 days ago
While developing Wasp, a JS full-stack framework, we keep researching other ecosystems (Rails, Laravel, Django, etc.) and finding ways how they figured out developer productivity. We kept finding these reusable legos, so we gave them a name: "full-stack modules". Let's define what we mean by that exactly. - Source: dev.to / 15 days ago
If you want to see where your site sits in this distribution, run an audit โ it takes about 12 seconds. - Source: dev.to / 19 days ago
The data comes from makewpfast.com, where we benchmark plugins in isolated Docker containers. No caching, no interference from other plugins, just a clean WordPress install with one plugin active at a time. We measure memory and queries, then calculate a score. - Source: dev.to / 27 days ago
The full database is free to search at makewpfast.com. No signup, no paywall. Look up any of the 4,999 tested plugins before you install them. - Source: dev.to / 3 months ago
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