What is the Impact of WordPress Plugins
What is the real impact of using plugins to enhance WordPress performance?
The WordPress Plugin library offers an endless depth of enchantments for your WordPress site. You name it – I am sure there is a plugin or two that can handle your need. It is important to remember that WordPress plugins are developed by Third-party developers (and not the WordPress team). Plugins do adhere to guidelines to help ensure that plugins remain secure and safe for users.
The importance of site speed
Other than the obvious – that people do not like using a slow website.
A slow loading website creates a bad user experience.
And is more prone to errors.
And you do have Google monitoring your site speed while determining your site ranking. Slow websites rank lower than fast loading website.
With each plugin installed there is an exchange.
Site Speed
Plugins can slow down the loading speed of your WordPress website.
Security
Hackers use plugin vulnerabilities to access your website.
How do plugins impact your website speed?
WordPress PageSpeed Without Plugins Installed
Mobile 98 / Desktop 100
WordPress PageSpeed With 3 Plugins Installed
Mobile 68 / Desktop 79 / Grade F
PageSpeed
Mobile 80 / 75 / 84 / 81
Desktop 88 / 87 / 93 / 90
Grade E / F / B / C
PageSpeed
Mobile 80 / 91 / 80
Desktop 95 / 87 / 86
Grade B / D / B
PageSpeed
(Not Connected)
Mobile 99 / 96 / 99
Desktop 96 / 93 / 95
Grade B / B / B
PageSpeed (Connected)
Mobile 89 / 9o / 97
Desktop 91 / 89
Grade D / A
The importance of site security
No one wants to interact with your hacked website. End of Story.
Once your site is hacked – you have no idea to what may be happening to your site, your content, or your end user.
You can only clean up the mess and hope for the best. With the best outcome being that the hack was small and impacted as few users as possible.
Infections Comparison
WordPress is the most popular CMS to be infected.
2020 = ??%
2019 = 94%
2018 = 90%
2017 = 83%
Plugins that have been hacked
Hacking Trends
- 2020 Website Hacking Statistics in 2020
- 2019 Website Threat Research Report.
- 2019 Hacked Website Trend Report 2019
- 2018 – WordPress is 90% of all hacked CMS site in 2018
- 2018 – WordPress top hacked CMS of 2018
- 2018 – Website Hack Trend Report 2018
- 2017 – Website Hack Trend Report 2017
Page Builder by SiteOrigin.
- Redirect administrator.
- Create new admin accounts.
- Inject backdoors.
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Discount Rules for WooCommence
- SQL injection
- Authorization Issues.
- Unauthenticated stored cross-site scripting.
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What Changes are Hackers Making to Your Website
Redirect Administrator
Locking Admin Out of the Site.
Create New Admin Accounts
Hacker can take over your site.
Inject Backdoors
The most popular hack.
The Inject Backdoor provides the hacker access even after webmaster changes passwords or patched vulnerable software.
Malware
Malware can reverse security
(WordPress Malware Disables Security Plugins to Avoid Detection).
SQL injection
Hacker interfere with the queries that an application makes to the database.
Can gain access to passwords, credit card information.
Compromise the underlying server and back-end infrastructure.
Unauthenticated Stored Cross-site Scripting.
Type if injection in which malicious scripts are injected into your website.
Can circumvent origin policy that segregate websites.
Web Shells
Malicious script that is the second step of an attack to maintain persistent access on an already compromised web application.
