SpeeSeek

Description

SpeeSeek looks at your site from the inside and surfaces the hidden, server-side
things that hurt real-world user experience — the things external tools like
Lighthouse or PageSpeed can’t see. It explains every finding in plain language as
What → Why it hurts → How to fix, with a copy-paste-ready snippet.

SpeeSeek is advise-only. It is not an optimizer and it never changes your data
or your settings. It diagnoses; you decide. There is zero front-end footprint —
nothing is added to your site’s public pages, nothing is added to autoload, and scans
run on demand from the admin only.

Why it’s different

• Reads what external tools can’t: autoloaded options bloat, cron backlog, database
  overhead, object cache / OPcache / page-cache configuration, page-builder weight.
• Its own transparent Site Weight grade across four categories — Server Response,
  Database Weight, Request Load, and Maintenance Health — instead of a single opaque
  Google score.
• Lightweight by design: read-only, on-demand, and it refuses to be the bloat it detects.

It remembers, so it’s a keeper — not a one-time scan

• History & regression alerts — every completed scan is snapshotted, so SpeeSeek
  can tell you what changed since last time and which plugin or update caused it.
• Per-plugin cost attribution — the “who’s the culprit” finder attributes autoloaded
  weight back to the plugins that created it.
• Consequence translator — not “1.2 MB of autoload” but “~16 ms added to every page
  load,” with the math shown under an Advanced toggle. Never fake precision.
• A “✓ what we verified is healthy” panel, so you can trust the verdict.

Scanners included

• Environment (PHP version / EOL, memory limit)
• Autoloaded Options — size + top offenders loaded on every request (signature finding)
• Cost by Plugin, Plugin Footprint
• Database Weight (expired transients, orphaned metadata, table overhead)
• Post Revisions (page-builder aware), Media Library, Comment Hygiene
• Scheduled Tasks (overdue / duplicate cron, cron-on-page-load)
• Caching (persistent object cache, OPcache, page cache)
• WooCommerce (Action Scheduler backlog, stale sessions — when active)
• Page builders: generic builder weight plus a dedicated Elementor scanner
• Jet / Crocoblock (custom-table weight, SmartFilters indexer, widget packs)

Optional deep profiler

On demand, SpeeSeek can install a temporary, removable must-use drop-in to measure
(rather than estimate) real server render time, database time, query count, peak memory,
front-end asset weight, and outbound HTTP during a single anonymous loopback request to
your own home page. It is removed when you’re done.

Translations

Ships ready in English, German (de_DE), and Persian (fa_IR), with full RTL support for
Persian. The German and Persian translations are AI-drafted and welcome a native-speaker
review pass.

External services

SpeeSeek connects to external services in two clearly-scoped cases. No personal data and
no content from your site is ever transmitted.

1. WordPress.org API (api.wordpress.org) — The “External HTTP” scanner performs a
   single test request to https://api.wordpress.org/core/stable-check/1.0/ to measure
   your server’s real outbound latency to a known-good endpoint. Only a standard HTTP GET
   is made; no data about your site is sent. This request only happens while you run a
   scan in the admin, and it respects the WP_HTTP_BLOCK_EXTERNAL constant.
   WordPress.org terms: https://wordpress.org/about/privacy/ .

2. SpeeSeek Benchmark service (opt-in, OFF by default) — If — and only if — you
   explicitly enable “Compare against other sites” in SpeeSeek’s settings, the plugin
   sends a small set of anonymous numeric “weight” metrics (for example: total
   autoloaded bytes, query count, database overhead size) to the SpeeSeek Benchmark API
   so it can show you where your site sits relative to aggregate percentile bands of
   other sites. No URLs, no site identity, no personal data, and no content are sent —
   only whitelisted numbers. This happens at most once per day, and never while the
   setting is disabled.
   Endpoint: https://benchmark-backend-cf.leoworking96.workers.dev (hosted on
   Cloudflare Workers). Service privacy & terms:
   https://benchmark-backend-cf.leoworking96.workers.dev/privacy .
   Cloudflare’s terms: https://www.cloudflare.com/website-terms/ .

Source code and build

SpeeSeek ships its full, human-readable source. The admin dashboard is written in
React/JSX and lives in the src/ directory, bundled inside the plugin alongside
the compiled assets in build/. The PHP in includes/ has no build step.

The compiled build/ assets are generated with the official WordPress build
tooling (@wordpress/scripts, which wraps webpack/Babel). To regenerate them
from source:

npm install
npm run build:assets

That compiles src/ into build/. No other build step is required.