What's new in BoltAudit 0.4.0: one-click cleanup for orphaned post metadata
BoltAudit 0.4.0 adds a one-click fix for orphaned post metadata, clearing leftover database rows from deleted posts without touching any live content.
Read article →WordPress database cleanup for beginners: what to delete and what to leave alone
Your WordPress database fills up with junk over time — old drafts, leftover data, failed background jobs. Here's a beginner-friendly guide to cleaning it safely.
Read article →Lighthouse vs Query Monitor vs BoltAudit: which tool tells you why your WordPress site is slow
Lighthouse shows the symptom. Query Monitor shows one request. BoltAudit ranks every fix by speed-up. Here's which tool to use, when, and why most sites need two.
Read article →How to find which plugin is slowing down your WordPress site?
Disabling plugins one by one is slow and risky. Here's how to find the exact Plugin slowing down your WordPress site in under 10 minutes, on a live site, safely.
Read article →Autoload bloat is the silent WordPress killer
Every uncached request loads the entire autoloaded options table. Most slow WordPress sites we audit have that table at 5MB or more.
Read article →How to actually read the WordPress slow query log
Slow query logs are noisy. Most queries that look bad are not, and most queries that look fine are quietly killing your site. Here is the order we read the slow log in.
Read article →Mobile WordPress is slower than you think — here is how to fix it
Most WordPress is fast claims are measured on a desktop fiber connection. On a real mobile device on 4G, your numbers are 3–5x worse — and that is where Google measures Core Web Vitals.
Read article →The autoload trap: WordPress's slowest hidden setting
Every WordPress page load reads wp_options.autoload — and most stores have hundreds of stale rows ballooning it past 1MB. The query plan, the fix, and how to keep it from regressing.
Read article →Why your WooCommerce checkout is slow — and the four-layer fix
The checkout page is where slow stores die. Most fixes only touch one layer of WordPress. Here is the four-layer audit walk we use, in the order BoltAudit checks them.
Read article →WordPress TTFB: What good looks like in 2026 (and how to get there)
Time to First Byte above 600ms is the single most common reason WordPress sites lose visitors. Here is what your number actually means, what good looks like in 2026, and the four-step diagnostic walk we use on every audit.
Read article →The four layers of WordPress performance: a field guide
Frontend, backend, database, infrastructure. Knowing which layer is bottlenecking is half the fix.
Read article →Why your WordPress site is slow — and how to find out in two minutes
Performance tools point at metrics. They rarely point at the cause. Here is the bottleneck-first framing we built BoltAudit around.
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