BoltAudit – Site Speed Audit and Performance Insights
A free read-only speed audit that names the exact plugin, query or asset slowing your WordPress site down, and the steps to resolve it.
4.6
(9 ratings)Will this break my store?
What the WordPress.org registry says about keeping BoltAudit – Site Speed Audit and Performance Insights running.
Tested to 7.0.4 — 1 branch behind 7.1
Tested against the WordPress branch in use today.11 days ago
At least 13.3 releases a year since launch. WordPress.org only lists versions still available for download, so the real number may be higher.7.4
Your host must be running at least this version.6.0
2
Maintenance & trust
Scored on how BoltAudit – Site Speed Audit and Performance Insights is looked after — not on how many stores run it.
91
out of 100Maintenance
35 / 35WordPress compatibility
20 / 20Support responsiveness
Not enough dataMerchant satisfaction
11 / 15Listing transparency
7 / 10Ratings
4.6
9 ratingsBoltAudit is a read-only speed audit for WordPress. It scans your site, names the specific plugin, query, asset or database table making it slow, and gives you the measured evidence and the ordered steps to resolve each one.
Most speed plugins hand you a score and a checklist. BoltAudit names the thing responsible: a plugin not updated since 2019, 41 images above the fold adding up to 4.2 MB, 12,438 post revisions in your database. It estimates what each costs you in visitors and orders them by what you win back.
What BoltAudit does, and what it does not
BoltAudit finds the work and ranks it. It does not change your site.
Every audit is read-only. You get the finding, the evidence behind it, and ordered steps you can follow or hand to a developer. What happens to your site stays your decision.
What the free Local Audit checks
The Local Audit runs inside your WordPress admin. Nothing leaves your site, and there is no account, setup or credit card.
- Plugins, database, server environment and assets, scanned in one pass
- Mobile and desktop scores, measured separately
- Estimated visitor loss, with the research behind it published publicly
- Health Score out of 100, tracked audit over audit
- Plugin Audit flagging inactive, outdated and abandoned plugins
- Database Overview: table sizes, row counts, autoloaded options, transients and bloat
- Post type analysis including orphaned metadata and orphaned post records
- WooCommerce checks: checkout timing, cart fragments, oversized images, stuck jobs
- Environment checks with pass and fail states
- JSON export of every result
- Unlimited sites
AI Audit, optional and account-based
The AI Audit runs on the BoltAudit cloud service. It ranks findings by estimated visitors recovered and attaches the evidence behind each one.
This feature sends diagnostic data from your site to a third-party service that we operate. Nothing is transmitted until you connect an account and start an audit, and the exact payload is shown to you first. See External services below.
Every plan reloads AI credits weekly, including the free one.
Works alongside your cache plugin
BoltAudit detects WP Rocket, LiteSpeed Cache, W3 Total Cache, WP Super Cache, WP Fastest Cache and Autoptimize, and accounts for what you already have.
Where the numbers come from
Every visitor-loss figure is an estimate, derived from published abandonment research mapped against your measured load times, and labelled as one everywhere it appears. BoltAudit never reads your analytics.
When the engine cannot produce a defensible number it says estimate unavailable rather than inventing one. When a firewall blocks a measurement, it names the blocked check and lowers the report confidence.
Privacy and safety
- Read only. No audit modifies your site, your files or your database.
- Local audits stay local. Nothing leaves your site unless you run a cloud audit.
- You see the payload first. The exact list of what will be transmitted is shown before the first AI Audit.
- No frontend overhead. Audits run on demand in the admin. Nothing loads on your public site.
Plans
The Local Audit is free, on unlimited sites, with no time limit. Paid plans add more weekly AI credits, scheduled audits and multi-site switching. See boltaudit.com/pricing
Roadmap
An SEO and AEO visibility audit is in development and is not part of this release. Progress: boltaudit.com/roadmap.
Development
Methodology behind every estimate: boltaudit.com/methodology
External services
This plugin connects to an external service that we operate. The free Local Audit does not use it. The service is used only for the AI Audit and for account, plan and credit-balance features.
BoltAudit cloud service (app.boltaudit.com)
What it is: the hosted audit service operated by BetterDots the same company that publishes this plugin.
What it is used for: running an AI Audit, authenticating your account, and reporting your remaining AI credit balance.
When data is sent:
- When you connect your site to a BoltAudit account from the AI Audit screen.
- Each time you start an AI Audit.
- When the plugin refreshes your plan status and credit balance while you are on a BoltAudit admin screen.
What is sent: your site URL, the WordPress and PHP versions, the active theme, the list of active plugins with their versions, server environment values, database table and option metrics, and the timings collected by the audit. Your account token is sent for authentication.
What is not sent: post or page content, media files, user records, customer records, orders, or analytics data.
Service: https://app.boltaudit.com
Terms of service: https://boltaudit.com/terms
Privacy policy: https://boltaudit.com/privacy
Run the free Local Audit. BoltAudit scans your plugins, database, assets and server environment in one pass and names the specific items making the site slow, each with the measured evidence and the steps to resolve it.
Yes. The Local Audit is free on unlimited sites, with no trial clock, no expiry and no nag screen. A free account adds weekly AI credits for the cloud-based AI Audit.
No. Every audit is read-only. BoltAudit reports findings and gives you the steps; carrying them out is your decision.
Not in this release. BoltAudit finds problems, ranks them by what they win back, and gives you the steps for each one. Applying fixes in place is on the public roadmap and is not included here.
Not for the Local Audit, which runs without an account or a credit card. A free BoltAudit account is required only for AI audits.
Nothing during a Local Audit. An AI Audit sends the diagnostic signals listed in the External services section to app.boltaudit.com. The exact payload is shown to you before the first run.
Your measured load times on mobile and desktop, mapped through published abandonment research and weighted by your traffic split. It is an estimate, labelled as one everywhere it appears, and the full method is public.
Yes. It checks slow checkout, cart fragments firing on every page, oversized product images, stuck background jobs and database bloat.
They are being rebuilt into a larger apply engine carrying a preview, an automatic backup and a one-click revert on every change. This release finds, ranks and explains the work.
Yes. If nothing can reach your site from the outside, BoltAudit collects the data on your server and sends it out instead. The plugin checks which direction works before an audit depends on it, and names the specific obstacle when one is in the way.
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