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Matt

I wanted to clear up any popular myth that people believe. A site with lots of plugins is actually NOT automatically bad. The number of plugins your site also isn’t the most important thing. The way GeneratePress has structure itself in a modular fashion is excellent. It does things the “”WordPress Way”.

Plugins are for functionality and to promote modularity. Several small plugins are always better way to go than two big ones or a single huge one. Thinking that the sheer number of plugins alone is slowing your site down is probably more psychological than anything. Often times, shared hosting is more to blame than the plugins. If it’s not the host, it’ usually the theme and then the plugins after that. Thankfully, there’s GeneratePress to save people from the horrible all-in-one theme monstrosities available for purchase.

However, if the majority of your plugins are poorly coded, overly feature packed (aka bloated), etc then you’ll likely run into issues like performance degradation, etc. Due to ignorance this is often attributed to the number of plugins installed alone. It’s more of a matter of code quality and plugin weight though rather than the number of them you have installed.

If you aren’t savvy enough to discern which plugins are slowing your site down then this plugin might be helpful to you – https://wordpress.org/plugins/p3-profiler/