Speed & Plugin Consolidation
The 52-Plugin coaching Site Speed Transformation
An active coaching platform had accumulated 52 plugins over 5 years under three different web developers. Page load times hovered around 8.2 seconds, updates were skipped out of fear, and the site crashed frequently due to plugin runtime conflicts.
We created a sandbox staging replica, cataloged runtime calls, and removed 11 completely abandoned plugins. We consolidated 8 pairs of duplicate tools and wrote site-specific custom code blocks to replace 6 minor single-purpose plugins. The active stack was brought down to 19 secure, fully supported plugins.
Page loading speed improved by 64%, load spikes dropped to zero, and checkout friction was removed. The site has had zero update conflicts or runtime errors in the 14 months since consolidation.