Product · · 5 min read
Official WordPress Support Is Here
Perfbase now officially supports WordPress and WooCommerce, with a WordPress.org plugin for profiling slow requests, AJAX actions, cron runs, admin work, and plugin overhead.
Guides, deep dives,
and product updates
Notes from the Perfbase team on PHP performance, profiling, and production engineering.
Product · Featured
Introducing Perfbase: PHP Profiling for Requests, Jobs, and Commands
Perfbase captures PHP call paths, timing, memory, and database activity so slow endpoints and background work can be debugged from trace evidence instead of guesswork.
B
Ben Poulson · FounderProduct · · 8 min read
Know When a PHP Endpoint Slows Down Before Someone Reports It
Perfbase alerts watch project, source, environment, and action-level performance from rollups, so PHP teams can catch slow endpoints, error-rate jumps, and weekly-pattern anomalies earlier.
Performance · · 6 min read
Where Does PHP Request Time Go When the Database Is Not the Bottleneck?
A slow PHP request is not always a database problem. Profiling shows the controller, framework, hydration, serialization, and vendor work between queries.
Performance · · 5 min read
The Hidden Cost of WordPress Plugins
WordPress performance problems often come from ordinary plugin behavior. Perfbase shows the request, hook, plugin, query, and WooCommerce context behind the slowdown.
Performance · · 7 min read
APM vs Profiling: What PHP Teams Actually Need
APM tools tell you that a request is slow. Profiling shows you why. Here's how PHP teams should think about both.
Engineering · · 2 min read
Finding N+1 Queries in Laravel with Perfbase
N+1 queries are the most common performance issue in Laravel apps. Here's how Perfbase finds them automatically.