Performance Lab
WordPress Foundation, San Francisco, California, United StatesThe Performance Lab is a WordPress plugin that allows you to test new performance features introduced by the official WordPress Performance Team.
According to our data, Performance Lab ranks 30th among the performance optimization technologies we track.
It has 0.04% of the performance optimization market share and is present on 0.02% of all websites.
- 🏠 Website
💸 Pricing
Performance Lab is available for free.
📊 Rankings and Market Share
- Performance Optimization
- Rank: 30
- Market share: 0.04%
- WordPress Plugins
- Rank: 138
- Market share: 0.06%
🏆 Performance Lab Awards
- ⬆️ 29th most popular in the United States in the Performance Optimization category.
- ⬆️ 117th most popular in the United States in the WordPress Plugins category.
⚡ Sites Using Performance Lab
We have data on 833 websites that use Performance Lab technology. Here is a list of some of the top ranked ones.
The highest rated site using Performance Lab is broccoli.co.jp.
| # | Website | Rank | Country | Language |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | #16,510 | Japan | Japanese | |
| 2 | #23,377 | Turkey | Arabic | |
| 3 | #23,391 | English | ||
| 4 | #23,805 | American English | ||
| 5 | #31,889 | France | American English | |
| 6 | #33,826 | United States | European Spanish | |
| 7 | #42,492 | American English | ||
| 8 | #50,769 | Nigeria | American English | |
| 9 | #54,950 | American English | ||
| 10 | #56,300 | American English | ||
| 11 | #57,502 | Japan | Japanese | |
| 12 | #59,915 | American English | ||
| 13 | #67,345 | American English | ||
| 14 | #80,429 | Italy | Italian | |
| 15 | #104,665 | United States | American English | |
| 16 | #105,157 | United States | American English | |
| 17 | #108,383 | United Kingdom | British English | |
| 18 | #112,981 | India | American English | |
| 19 | #116,939 | American English | ||
| 20 | #117,977 | United States | American English |
📈 Usage Statistics
Most of the sites that use Performance Lab:
- are located in the United States
- have content in English
- use the .com domain extension
- fall into the Business category.
Most of the sites using Performance Lab are from the United States and the United Kingdom.
- United States 34.4%
- United Kingdom 5.1%
- Japan 4.4%
- Russia 4.3%
- Italy 4%
- Spain 3.4%
- France 3.2%
- Brazil 2.3%
- India 2.3%
- Other 36.6%
Most Performance Lab users speak English, Spanish, or Russian.
- English 59.8%
- Spanish 6.1%
- Russian 4.1%
- Japanese 3.9%
- Italian 3.4%
- French 2.6%
- German 2.4%
- Portuguese 2.4%
- Vietnamese 1.9%
- Other 13.4%
Performance Lab technology is especially popular on .com top-level domains.
- .com 55.7%
- .org 3.7%
- .net 3.2%
- .ru 3.2%
- .it 1.7%
- .co.uk 1.6%
- .pl 1.6%
- .com.br 1.4%
- .es 1.2%
- Other 26.7%
The primary market segments for websites utilizing Performance Lab include business, entertainment, and education and reference.
- Business 20.7%
- Entertainment 14.4%
- Education/Reference 8.6%
- General News 8%
- Blogs/Wiki 7.5%
- Marketing/Merchandising 6.3%
- Internet Services 4.6%
- Sports 4.6%
- Travel 3.4%
- Other 21.9%
🔢 Performance Lab Versions
The most popular version of Performance Lab is 1.9, used by 26.9% of sites where versions were detected. In addition, 15.4% of sites use Performance Lab 2.7, and 14.3% use Performance Lab 2.9.
- 1.9 26.9%
- 2.7 15.4%
- 2.9 14.3%
- 2.6 12.6%
- 2.2 6.7%
- 2.5 5%
- 2.8 4.9%
- 2.4 4%
- 2.1 2.2%
- Other 8%
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💬 Frequently Asked Questions
What is the company behind Performance Lab?
Performance Lab is owned by the WordPress Foundation, headquartered in San Francisco, California, United States.
Can I use Performance Lab for free?
Yes, it is a free performance optimization technology.
Which country uses Performance Lab the most?
The majority of Performance Lab users are from the United States.
Who uses Performance Lab?
According to our data, Performance Lab is used on hundreds of sites, including such established ones as broccoli.co.jp,
arabicpost.net, and
tarotoo.com.
Do academic institutions use Performance Lab?
Yes. The most notable of these is unn.edu.ng.
What are the alternatives to Performance Lab?
Alternatives and possible competitors to Performance Lab may include 
Autoptimize, 
Perfmatters, and WP Fastest Cache.
👉 See Also
- ✨ Related technologies
- 💼 All technologies from WordPress Foundation
🗃️ About This Data
- We evaluate the popularity of technologies based on the number of websites where we detect their usage.
- Technologies without a detectable web footprint, and those we do not track, are not reflected in the calculated market share.
- This report is based on the analysis of 3,814,833 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.