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Measuring Site Performance with Tideways

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Tideways is a service to collect and analyze information about how the code of your WordPress site performs. It helps developers to:

  • Visualize changes in the site production code performance over time

  • Drill down into execution logs and find bottle necks in PHP code

  • Analyze database queries so their performance can be optimized

  • Alert about PHP errors and analyze stack traces so the code can be improved to avoid the errors

  • E-mail, Slack, Github and other integrations

Tideways is a commercial tool, but you can use it for free for 30 days. Here's how to activate it on your site:

  • Create an account at Tideways. You can start with a free trial and later upgrade to a paid account.

  • In the Tideways dashboard, create a new application and get the application API key (e.g. A0A0A0A0A0A0A0A0).

  • Create a file /data/wordpress/.tideways.key in your project and save the application API key in it (e.g. $ echo 'A0A0A0A0A0A0A0A0' > .tideways.key).

  • In your production site environment, run wp-restart-php to active the PHP module and the Tideways daemon with your Tideways key.

  • Go back to your Tideways dashboard to see the data start pouring in!

For more information, see our longer artice about Tideways.

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