Version 3.7.6 has been released! | Documentation
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Lighthouse is a efficiency tuning plugin, eradicating a lot of default WordPress behaviour, resembling filters, actions, injected code, native code and third-party actions.
Improve your website loading pace as much as 300%
For a WordPress set up to work as anticipated, load quick and error-free, it wants a little bit of cleanup in an effort to assist the browser cache the requested content material and the caching plugins to work with 100% effectivity.
With Lighthouse, you save over $480 in over 10 hours of coding by an internet developer, which you’d want pay to do it in your web site, or to buy separate optimisation plugins.
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“Makes an enormous distinction. Diminished variety of queries and elevated pace by over 20%”
“Excellent cache and compression! (different choices are nice, too!) I mixed this with WP Velocity of Gentle and get an incredible efficiency by this. Hope you retain on the good work! ❤”
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Changelog
= 3.7.6 =
* FIX: Eliminated unused choice
* UPDATE: Up to date WordPress compatibility
* UPDATE: Up to date WordPress suggestions
* UPDATE: Up to date PHP necessities
* UPDATE: Up to date ChartJS (3.7.1 to three.9.1)
* UPDATE: Added database server data
* FEATURE: Added new Storage part
* FEATURE: Added choice to dam WebP picture creation
* FEATURE: Added choice to disable utility passwords
* FEATURE: Added choice to disable huge picture dealing with (launched in WordPress 5.3)
= 3.7.5 =
* FIX: Mounted WordPress suggestions
* UPDATE: Up to date WordPress compatibility
* UPDATE: Eliminated customized SVG URL for front-end solely
= 3.7.4 =
* UPDATE: Up to date WordPress compatibility
* UPDATE: Up to date ChartJS (3.3.2 to three.7.1)
* UPDATE: Up to date WPCS specs
* UPDATE: Eliminated unused .eslintrc useful resource file
* UPDATE: Up to date code in response to WordPress Coding Requirements
= 3.7.3 =
* UPDATE: Take away Dashicons choices because it doesn't apply anymore and, in some uncommon instances, it breaks the admin bar for non-admin customers
* UPDATE: Take away deprecated hooks as they aren't being utilized anymore
= 3.7.2 =
* FEATURE: Added choices to disable automated plugin replace e-mail notifications
* FEATURE: Added choices to disable automated theme replace e-mail notifications
* UPDATE: Up to date WordPress compatibility
* UPDATE: Up to date WordPress suggestions
* UPDATE: Up to date WPCS specs
= 3.7.1 =
* FIX: Mounted 2 typos
* UPDATE: Uncovered present database model on the plugin Dashboard
* UPDATE: Eliminated 8 database queries on plugin set up
* UPDATE: Added PHP necessities (7+)
* UPDATE: Eliminated CPU and reminiscence examine as not many hosts permit working the calls
* UPDATE: Improved back-end efficiency by eradicating a number of OS/server calls
= 3.7.0 =
* FEATURE: Applied code cleanup on demand
* FEATURE: Applied optimization presets
* UPDATE: Up to date code in response to WordPress Coding Requirements
* UPDATE: Eliminated unused file and cleaned up outdated code
* UPDATE: Eliminated unused variables and improved audit efficiency
* UPDATE: Eliminated emoji from choice title
* UPDATE: Eliminated Safety tab and moved choices to the Efficiency tab
* UPDATE: Eliminated CMS tab and moved choices to the Setup tab
* UPDATE: Up to date Steadily Requested Questions part
= 3.6.2 =
* UPDATE: Added a Steadily Requested Questions part on the plugin's dashboard
* UPDATE: Added a GitHub.com entry token helper for automated updates
* UPDATE: Up to date PHP suggestions
= 3.6.1 =
* FEATURE: Added HTML, inline JS and inline CSS minification
* UPDATE: Up to date UI for the choices navigation bar
= 3.6.0 =
* FEATURE: Added Core Net Vitals monitoring and evolution
= 3.5.4 =
* UPDATE: Eliminated EDD licensing mannequin and making ready for a subscription mannequin (section 2)
= 3.5.3 =
* UPDATE: Added TGMPA class to incorporate Git Updater
= 3.5.2 =
* FIX: Mounted beacon creation
* UPDATE: Eliminated EDD licensing mannequin and making ready for a subscription mannequin
* UPDATE: Minified prefetch.js and prerender.js
= 3.5.1 =
* UPDATE: Eliminated HTML minification because the algorythm was not saving sufficient to justify the output buffering time
= 3.5.0 =
* FIX: Solely use the wp_enqueue_scripts motion as soon as and enqueue/dequeue in a single place as required (4 requests -> 1 request)
* FIX: Solely use the plugins_loaded motion as soon as and filter as required (3 requests -> 1 request)
* FIX: Examine and outline fallback worth for CURL_HTTP_VERSION_2_0 if it's not outlined
* FIX: Mounted CRON gadgets being non-accessible
* FIX: Mounted problem with CrUX.js being enabled globally
* FIX: Mounted a lot of unused variables getting used (leftovers from SpeedFactor transition)
* FIX: Mounted a division by zero error
* UPDATE: Eliminated error reporting and monitoring and solely add a information (-1 embody request, -1 choice request)
* UPDATE: Eliminated 2 choices from loading by default (added particular choices and disabled them by default) (-2 filters)
* FEATURE: Solely load SpeedFactor recordsdata within the back-end
* FEATURE: Added block editor (Gutenberg) choices
* FEATURE: Added srcset elimination choice
* FEATURE: Added jetpack.css elimination choice
= 3.4.8 =
* UPDATE: Added choice to deregister mediaelement.js
* UPDATE: Up to date WordPress compatibility
* UPDATE: Up to date WordPress suggestions
* FIX: Change a number of the choice labels to make choices extra clear
= 3.4.6 =
* FEATURE: Added Chrome Person Expertise Report (wants a Google Lighthouse API key)
* UPDATE: Added extra contextual assist for the TTFB measurement
* UPDATE: Improved pace of the SpeedFactor report web page
* FIX: Mounted TTFB uncooked worth
= 3.4.5 =
* UPDATE: Up to date WordPress compatibility
* UPDATE: Up to date WordPress suggestions
= 3.4.4 =
* UPDATE: Added elective e-mail notification for every audit
= 3.4.3 =
* FIX: Mounted updater path
= 3.4.2 =
* UPDATE: Added automated running a blog/commenting optimization
* UPDATE: UI enhancements
= 3.4.1 =
* FIX: Mounted textarea sanitization
* UPDATE: Added automated Beacon creation
= 3.4.0 =
* FEATURE: Merged SpeedFactor monitoring and monitoring
* FEATURE: Merged SpeedFactor payload monitoring
* UPDATE: Switched from Git Updater to proprietary license
* UPDATE: Switched to a yearly help/updates plan
= 3.3.2 =
* UPDATE: Up to date minimal PHP suggestions
* UPDATE: Up to date WordPress compatibility
* UPDATE: Up to date WordPress suggestions
= 3.3.1 =
* FIX: Eliminated beacon creation
* UPDATE: Up to date minimal PHP suggestions
= 3.3.0 =
* FEATURE: Added prompt loading (prerendering and prefetching)
* FEATURE: Added choice to take away core lazy loading
* FIX: Take away choice to disable archives/taxonomies
* FIX: Take away choice to disable REST API as an increasing number of core options rely on this function
* UPDATE: Up to date WordPress compatibility
* UPDATE: Up to date WordPress suggestions
* UPDATE: Up to date minimal PHP suggestions
* UPDATE: Cleaned up plugin back-end and take away statistics
= 3.2 =
* UPDATE: Eliminated jQuery Migrate choice because the script might be eliminated beginning with WordPress 5.5
* UPDATE: Up to date WordPress compatibility
* UPDATE: Up to date WordPress suggestions
= 3.1.1 =
* FEATURE: Added GitHub Updater compatibility and eliminated hard-coded GitHub API
* UPDATE: Eliminated questionable scripts-to-footer choices
* UPDATE: Up to date WordPress compatibility
* UPDATE: Up to date minimal PHP suggestions
* UPDATE: Up to date WordPress suggestions
= 3.1.0 =
* FEATURE: Added SpeedFactor beacon
* UPDATE: Eliminated license and hardcode it for simpler replace
* UPDATE: Added information for default WordPress optimization
= 3.0.3 =
* FIX: Renamed person agent for the updater class
* FIX: Renamed updater class title to keep away from conflicts
= 3.0.2 =
* FIX: Renamed improper license choice title (once more)
= 3.0.1 =
* FIX: Renamed improper license choice title
= 3.0.0 =
* FIX: Eliminated doubtlessly complicated particulars
* UPDATE: Up to date WordPress compatibility
* UPDATE: Up to date minimal PHP suggestions
* UPDATE: Up to date WordPress suggestions
* UPDATE: Up to date UI
* FEATURE: Added SpeedFactor integration
= 2.9.0 =
* UPDATE: Eliminated all TinyMCE-related choices (embeds and emojis)
* UPDATE: Eliminated `lighthouse_clean_attributes` choice, as WordPress 5.3 provides theme help for this
* UPDATE: Eliminated cached menus as they lose dynamic lessons and IDs
* UPDATE: Eliminated cached template elements as it isn't good apply anymore (there's higher methods of caching and higher methods of optimising queries)
= 2.8.1 =
* UPDATE: Up to date WordPress compatibility
* UPDATE: Eliminated deprecated Yoast filter
* COMPATIBILITY: Eliminated a number of pre-WordPress-5.0 choices
= 2.8.0 =
* FIX: Mounted documentation hyperlink
* UPDATE: Up to date minimal PHP suggestions
* UPDATE: Up to date WordPress suggestions
* UPDATE: Up to date WordPress compatibility
* FEATURE: Uncovered Web site Well being in Lighthouse Settings display screen
* COMPATIBILITY: Eliminated a number of pre-WordPress-5.0 choices
= 2.7.0 =
* FIX: Eliminated duplicate choice
* UPDATE: Eliminated MySQL examine because it's onerous to detect all attainable configurations (Maria DB, Percona)
* UPDATE: Eliminated OPCache examine as it isn't related anymore
* UPDATE: Up to date plugin necessities to PHP 7+
* UPDATE: Eliminated all pre-PHP 7 code
* UPDATE: Eliminated caching headers in favour of .htaccess guidelines
= 2.6.1 =
* FIX: Eliminated out of date cache purging
* FIX: Eliminated out of date cache counter
* FIX: Consolidated __return_false
* FIX: Mounted improper checked/advisable choice rely
* UPDATE: Up to date minimal PHP suggestions
* UPDATE: Eliminated OPCache help as a consequence of server errors
* UPDATE: Improved pings elimination
* FEATURE: Added taxonomy (archives) disabling
= 2.6.0 =
* FIX: Code compliancy fixes
* FIX: Strict examine fixes
* FIX: Eliminated outdated, unused choice
* UPDATE: Up to date server software program suggestions
* UPDATE: Up to date WordPress suggestions
* UPDATE: Up to date WordPress compatibility
* UPDATE: Up to date oembed elimination
* UPDATE: Added 3 extra widget elimination choices
* UPDATE: Added creator archives elimination choice
* UPDATE: Eliminated presets as they weren't updated
* UPDATE: Eliminated pointless admin/web page examine
* PERFORMANCE: Refactored settings rely/financial savings/suggestions
= 2.5.1 =
* UPDATE: Up to date PHP 7.2 compatibility
* UPDATE: Eliminated deprecated perform
= 2.5.0 =
* FIX: Mounted undeclared variable
* UPDATE: Eliminated transient cleaner as WordPress 4.9.0 implements it natively
= 2.4.1 =
* UPDATE: Eliminated defective Gravatar caching
* UPDATE: Eliminated script concatenation because it generated conflicts with a lot of incorrectly coded themes
* UPDATE: Added OPcache standing
* PERFORMANCE: Added new HTML minification engine
= 2.4.0 =
* UPDATE: Improved emoji elimination
* UPDATE: Take away further frontend types and scripts as they're in opposition to WordPress.org tips
* PERFORMANCE: Extra efficiency tweaks on theme init
= 2.3.5 =
* FIX: Mounted HSTS assist hyperlink
* FIX: Eliminated outdated nofollow repair breaking the Dashboard
* UPDATE: Eliminated Zen discover from pages apart from Lighthouse settings web page
* UPDATE: Up to date server software program suggestions
* UPDATE: Up to date WordPress suggestions
* UPDATE: Up to date Normalize.css (6.0.0 to 7.0.0)
* UPDATE: Up to date Pure.css (0.6.2 to 1.0.0)
* UPDATE: Eliminated an incorrect examine for server protocol
= 2.3.4 =
* FIX: Mounted commenter hyperlink nofollow attribute elimination
= 2.3.3 =
* FEATURE: Added reminiscence utilization and CPU load
* UPDATE: Up to date server software program suggestions
* UPDATE: Up to date WordPress suggestions
* UPDATE: Up to date Normalize.css (5.0.0 to six.0.0)
* UPDATE: Up to date REST API suggestions
= 2.3.2 =
* FIX: Mounted PHP 7 compatibility with Gravatar caching
* FEATURE: Added choice to disable REST API
* UPDATE: Added Entypo Fontello to theme tweaks
* UPDATE: Up to date Modernizr.js (2.8.3 to three.3.1)
* UPDATE: Tweaked server software program suggestions
* UPDATE: Tweaked choice safety (and improved efficiency by forcing strict checks)
= 2.3.1 =
* UPDATE: Eliminated jQuery UI choice as it is a theme particular function
* UPDATE: Eliminated ambiguous HTTPS message
* UPDATE: Up to date WordPress suggestions
* UPDATE: Up to date server software program suggestions
* UPDATE: Up to date Normalize.css (0.6.0 to 0.6.2)
= 2.3.0 =
* FIX: Eliminated a doubtlessly limiting choice
* UPDATE: Up to date WordPress suggestions
* UPDATE: Up to date server software program suggestions
* UPDATE: Up to date Normalize.css (4.2.0 to five.0.0)
* UPDATE: Up to date FontAwesome.css (4.6.3 to 4.7.0)
* PERFORMANCE: Changed a preg_replace() perform with a local WordPress filter
= 2.2.1 =
* UPDATE: Merged <head> cleanup choices
* UPDATE: Wording and contextual assist updates
* UPDATE: Mounted a number of typos
* UPDATE: Eliminated the Genericons dequeue choice
* UPDATE: Eliminated the Fancybox dequeue choice
* UPDATE: Merged content material parsing choices
* UPDATE: Added documentation
= 2.2.0 =
* UPDATE: Eliminated footer hyperlink attribution
* UPDATE: Modified methodology of eradicating jQuery Migrate and utilizing an outdated jQuery model
* UPDATE: Eliminated a advisable choice which added additional database queries
* UPDATE: Eliminated two deprecated capabilities
* UPDATE: Modified a request examine after the choice examine
= 2.1.0 =
* FIX: Checked if cache measurement is increased than 0 earlier than making use of filters
* FIX: Correctly formatted numbers and filesize
* FIX: Mounted some ambiguous wording
* FIX: Mounted improper worth within the Sweeper part
* UPDATE: Eliminated a measurement calculation perform
* UPDATE: Added a Zen mode choice which removes most of WordPress-related litter, notifications, meta packing containers and filters
* UPDATE: Mixed three choices into one
* UPDATE: Eliminated Open Sans elimination choice (WordPress 4.6 defaults to system fonts)
* UPDATE: Up to date enqueued developer scripts to make use of HTTPS (cdnjs.com and jsdelivr.com)
* UPDATE: Up to date normalize.css to 4.2.0 (from 4.1.1)
= 2.0.6 =
* UPDATE: Made Gravatar cache elective by way of setting in "Cache & Compression" tab
* UPDATE: Added error reporting choice
* UPDATE: Up to date Theme Tweaks scripts and stylesheets variations
= 2.0.5 =
* UPDATE: Added extra strategies for XML-RPC safety
* UPDATE: Merged ping choice with XML-RPC as they're associated
* UPDATE: Pressured elimination of pingback URL for themes with hardcoded tag
= 2.0.4 =
* UPDATE: Added choice to maneuver scripts to footer
* UPDATE: Added choice to cache Gravatars
* UPDATE: Minor UI enhancements
= 2.0.3 =
* UPDATE: Up to date CSS/JS developer libraries
* UPDATE: Up to date advisable PHP model
* UPDATE: Up to date advisable MySQL model (decreased to five.6)
* UPDATE: Up to date WordPress model requirement
= 2.0.2 =
* FIX: Mounted a typo
* FIX: Eliminated unused backup choices
* FIX: Mounted an XSS vulnerability in remove_query_arg()
* UPDATE: Up to date FontAwesome to model 4.6.2
* UPDATE: Up to date attribution hyperlink for higher look
* PERFORMANCE: Mixed all initialization actions for quicker startup
* PERFORMANCE: Mixed all widget initialization actions for quicker startup
* PERFORMANCE: Modified model question elimination to simply accept values from an array
= 2.0.1 =
* UPDATE: Up to date FontAwesome to model 4.6.1
= 2.0.0 =
* UPDATE: Eliminated partial backup function
* UPDATE: Eliminated LInfo module because it posed a safety danger
* UPDATE: Up to date FontAwesome to model 4.6.0
* UPDATE: Changed FontAwesome with Dashicons in admin view
= 1.9.2 =
* UPDATE: Added protocol examine
* UPDATE: Added HTTP/2 examine
* UPDATE: Eliminated MySQL consumer library examine and changed it with $wpdb->db_version()
* UPDATE: Elevated advisable PHP model to 7.0.3
* UPDATE: Elevated advisable MySQL model to five.6
* UPDATE: Added hyperlink to official WordPress tips for website hardening
= 1.9.1 =
* FEATURE: Added HTML minify
* UPDATE: UI enhancements
= 1.9.0 =
* FIX: Added autoload argument to all plugin choices
* FIX: Mounted ETag technology by utilizing precise filename as a substitute of SCRIPT_FILENAME
* FIX: Mounted call-by-reference variables
* FIX: Eliminated all session management
* FIX: Modified Cache-Management to public (permit for world caching, as a substitute of per-user)
* FIX: Re-enabled capital_P_dangit() filter <img src="/photos/smileys/pleased.png" alt=" :)" title=" :)" />
* UPDATE: Up to date URL schema of included scripts and types
* UPDATE: Added contextual assist and legend
= 1.8.0 =
* UPDATE: Mounted description model
* UPDATE: Merged some choices
* FEATURE: Added server info (based mostly on Linfo)
* FEATURE: Added CSS/JS compression
* FEATURE: Added contextual assist
* FIX: Eliminated admin tweaks because it broke some installations
* FIX: Mounted admin FontAwesome enqueuing
* FIX: Reworded the Sweeper clean-up choices for much less technical customers
= 1.7.0 =
* UPDATE: Added WordPress 4.4 compatibility
* UPDATE: Mounted Sweeper UI
* UPDATE: Improved Sweeper performance
* UPDATE: Added Sweeper backup discover
* FEATURE: Added WordPress model examine
* FEATURE: Added WordPress 4.4 embed choice
* FEATURE: Added cache management choices
* FIX: Eliminated a hardcoded hyperlink
= 1.6.0 =
* PERFORMANCE: Eliminated choice autoloading (efficiency acquire)
* DEV: Modified model format to x.y.z
* DEV: Eliminated hardcoded plugin model and switched to get_plugin_data()
* COMPATIBILITY: Added new WordPress 4.4 admin types
* SECURITY: Added HSTS
= 1.5.0 =
* UPDATE: Bolstered XML-RPC safety by including pingback safety
* UPDATE: Hidden XML-RPC from HTTP response headers
= 1.4.0 =
* FEATURE: Added widget elimination
* FEATURE: Added content material filtering elimination
* FEATURE: Added numerous different actions disabling
* FEATURE: Added new helper (template half caching)
= 1.3 =
* FIX: Mounted a variable swap for Really helpful and Aggresive plans
* FIX: Mounted GZIP detection
* FEATURE: Added transient clear choice utilizing CRON
* FEATURE: Added `If Modified Since` HTTP header
* FEATURE: Added autosuggest elimination choice (wp-admin solely)
* FEATURE: Added safety choices
* FEATURE: Added XMLRPC system.multicall elimination
* UPDATE: UI enhancements
* UPDATE: Moved XMLRPC choices to Safety tab
= 1.2 =
* FEATURE: Added model tag clear choice
* FEATURE: Added script tag clear choice
* FEATURE: Added scheme normalization choice
* FEATURE: Added CSS attributes elimination
* FEATURE: Added nofollow elimination choice to scoring/rating tweaks
= 1.1 =
* RELEASE: First public launch
