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Get Scalability Pro →Comparing Perfmatters with Scalability Pro? This page breaks down the key differences and similarities so you can find the best fit for your WordPress or WooCommerce store.
Overview of Perfmatters
Perfmatters is a lightweight performance plugin that reduces WordPress bloat and speeds up your site. It lets you disable unused WordPress features and scripts on a per-post or per-page basis to reduce HTTP requests.
How Scalability Pro differs from Perfmatters
All plugins from Super Speedy Plugins share a SQL-first architecture and an uncompromising focus on performance — and Scalability Pro is no different. Here is what sets it apart:
Upgrade your WordPress engine with Scalability Pro.
Lifts the limits on how big your WordPress website can be by adding key indexes to speed up slow queries, rewriting queries to be faster, and providing toggle-on-off functionality for WP stuff you don’t need which is slowing down your site.
How to choose between Perfmatters and Scalability Pro?
Scale is where most plugins start to struggle, and exactly where Scalability Pro was designed to thrive. Unlike Perfmatters, every Scalability Pro release is stress-tested against a one-million-product WooCommerce store before it reaches your server. If your load times have been creeping upwards as your catalogue grows, migration is simpler than you might fear — and a free trial means you can confirm the improvement on staging before making any commitment.
What do others say about Scalability Pro?
Dave has made some tremendous products. Scalability pro is one of those. I didn’t think my project would work considering how many products I planned to have. Salability pro allowed me to upload 97,000 records. With Dave’s community and support I was able to make additional optimizations that helped me discover what was really required to boost the speed of my uploads and actually allow them to complete without failing. Check out his guides too for import speed, server configurations, and server optimizations. Now everything is fast. Excited for the future.
This one saved my a$$! I'm using it on large woocommerce (around 50K product variations). Improved import speed more then 3x. Thank you Dave and wpintense team!
I purchased Scalability Pro as an experiment to see how it affected WP ALL IMPORT. It managed to turn a 3 day stock sync process into a 1 hour process. It has also sped up WooCommerce pages significantly. I am now in the process of adding WP Scalability Pro to my other websites so they can benefit.
Scalability Pro Knowledge Base
View full Knowledge Base →- Does Scalability Pro help with speeding up variations on WooCommerce products?
- How to use Scalability Pro to debug slow WP All Import speeds
- Managing your wp_options table
- Why does pagination stop working when Scalability Pro is enabled?
- Diagnosing WP All Import Performance Issues with Scalability Pro
- Object caching per-row for wp-admin lists
- Optimised XML sitemap generation speed
- Scalability Pro speeds up wp-admin and your site in general
- Scalability Pro speeds up your archive pages by speeding up WP_Query
- Scalability Pro speeds up your imports
- Specific WooCommerce Optimisations
- Speed up Slow Themes
Articles about Scalability Pro
View all articles →- New SQL enhancement for Scalability Pro to fix WooCommerce long-running query in the product-hero block
- Speeding up WooCommerce 7 (wp-admin and imports)
- More speed boosts for wp-admin and imports with Scalability Pro upgrade
- Performance boost for WooCommerce onboarding code on large sites
- December Development Update
- More speed, more updates, and a bit of a roadmap for our plugins
- Beta downloads and historic plugin versions now in your account
- Upgrades to multiple Super Speedy Plugins plugins now in beta
- Bridge theme speed improvements included in latest Scalability Pro update
- Faster Woo Widgets beta
- Speed hacks for the Newspaper theme by tagDiv: Transform your site speed
- Making the WPNotif plugin faster
- Speeding up WP All Import imports using Scalability Pro
- Performance Optimisation for various XML Sitemap plugins
- Getting Rehub Working with Super Speedy Plugins
- Rehub Theme Performance and Scalability Review
- Foundthru demo site of Super Speedy Plugins plugins
- Scaling WooCommerce to 1 million products (my talk at WordCamp Brighton)
What's new in Scalability Pro?
6.18 (15th December 2025)
- Added new WP All Export optimisation for when editing exports to speed up or avoid the wp_postmeta scan to grab all postmeta keys
- Added preview and customizer check for "Remove OR check for private items on front end" optimisation
6.17 (18th November 2025)
- Added full namespacing for plugin update checker to prevent conflicts with 3rd party plugins
- Merged stop-phone-home functionality including fixes for paypal & stripe
- Rollback to 5.94 + bug fixes added from other feature branch (but other major new features and implementation pattern removed for further testing)
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