Can the plugin show any useful data?

Hi nCrafts,

There is documentation with P3 under the “help” tab that explains in detail what is being measured.

Why would p3 show that the add-on pack is using 70% (again, 70% WHAT) ?

70% of wall time for php time only. CSS / JS are not considered unless they’re dynamically generated by the WordPress framework.

If wordpress takes 10 seconds to load, P3 has attributed 7 seconds to this plugin.

If you’d like more info, I’ve written all about it here:
http://kpayne.me/2013/12/24/write-your-own-code-profiler-in-php/

1. P3 provides no useful information on debugging the issue. All you see is 70% listed on different pages, presented in different styles. It’s the same piece of data. There is absolutely no other info, unless I missed some corner.

P3 is for profiling, not debugging. If you’d like to dig into this more, I suggest using any one of these other tools:

https://wordpress.org/plugins/query-monitor/
https://github.com/dannyvankooten/wp-plugin-profiler
https://github.com/Rarst/laps
https://wpperformanceprofiler.interconnectit.com/

Or jump straight into xdebug / xhprof and see where the holdup is.

2. FormCraft Add-On pack is a very small plugin. It loads no JS or CSS files on any page. It is a simple API snipper which connects forms to newsletter services. When your submit a form, this add-on connects to the, say, MailChimp server, giving them the email. Needless to say, this only happens when you submit the form. It obviously doesn’t happen every time you open a page?

I would look into this further for you, but the source code for the plugin in question is not available.