laps/README.md

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# Laps — light WordPress profiler

_Make a site, make it fast._

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Laps is a plugin that **shows performance information** about WordPress page load.

It provides a visual summary in toolbar that is quick and easy to inspect.

## Page profiling

Laps automatically tracks many events, such as:
- PHP, core, plugins, and themes load, main posts loop, sidebars
- database queries (with [`SAVEQUERIES` constant](http://codex.wordpress.org/Editing_wp-config.php#Save_queries_for_analysis) enabled)
- network requests to other sites 

## API profiling

For Ajax and REST API — Laps outputs performance information by Server Timing API, for use with clients such as Chrome Dev Tools.

![Laps v3 dev tools screenshot](https://i.imgur.com/hkl1Qk9.png)

### API authentication

API requests need to be authenticated as admin for performance data to be sent. For Ajax requests cookies are sufficient. REST API requests also [need nonce passed](https://developer.wordpress.org/rest-api/using-the-rest-api/authentication/#cookie-authentication).

`laps_can_see` check can be filtered to relax required permissions on the plugin’s side.

## Installation

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## License

MIT