VitalLens
v1.0.0Core Web Vitals monitoring for WordPress that keeps its own history, tells real-visitor data from lab tests, and names the element and cause behind a failing metric.
Changelog
1.0.0#
First public release. Earlier numbered builds were development versions that were never published.
- Tracks the pages you choose against Google PageSpeed Insights on a schedule, using your own API key, and stores every result.
- Labels every reading as real visitors, origin only or lab only.
- Names the element, the cause Lighthouse attributed it to and the share of the metric it accounts for, for each failing Core Web Vital, reading seventeen diagnostic audits.
- Two-dot column on the Posts and Pages lists with a hover card; a dashboard that states the situation in a sentence; a dashboard widget.
- History per page with the failing threshold on the chart and a readout on hover or arrow keys.
- Four email alerts judged by the headroom a change consumed, not by percentage.
- Check now on a page's report; Run checks now on the dashboard.
- CSV export of every tracked page or one page's history, and a printable site-wide report.
- Automatic backups on deactivation with one-click restore; data kept on delete unless you opt out.
- A real cron command in Settings for sites where WP-Cron stalls.