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title: "WordPress Plugin Count vs Speed: 9+ Plugins Pass 24% - PageSpeed Matters"
url: https://www.pagespeedmatters.com/resources/data-studies/wordpress-plugin-count-vs-speed
description: "Top 1M WordPress homepages with 0 to 2 detectable plugins pass Core Web Vitals 57.9% of the time, against 24.0% for those with 9 or more."
lang: en
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WordPress Plugin Count vs Speed: 9+ Plugins Pass 24% (https://www.pagespeedmatters.com/resources/data-studies/wordpress-plugin-count-vs-speed)

Top 1M WordPress homepages with 0 to 2 detectable plugins pass Core Web Vitals 57.9% of the time, against 24.0% for those with 9 or more.

Core Web Vitals pass rate by detectable plugin count: all WordPress vs WooCommerce stores

0 to 2 (all WordPress) 57.9%

3 to 5 (all WordPress) 45.9%

6 to 8 (all WordPress) 30.8%

9+ (all WordPress) 24%

0 to 2 (WooCommerce) 53.8%

3 to 5 (WooCommerce) 39.3%

6 to 8 (WooCommerce) 28.7%

9+ (WooCommerce) 20.9%

Source: PageSpeed Matters. HTTP Archive top 1M crawl, Sept 2026, mobile, CrUX p75.

Correlation only: bigger sites tend to run more plugins and heavier pages anyway.

Source: WordPress Plugin Count vs Speed: 9+ Plugins Pass 24% - PageSpeed Matters (https://www.pagespeedmatters.com/resources/data-studies/wordpress-plugin-count-vs-speed)