Booster for WooCommerce no longer a bloaty mess in 2023?

This article is a followup from the excellent post by Simplenet at https://simplenet.io/booster-woocommerce-buster/

If you haven't read it before, please click the link and check it out for full context. In short, he compared the WordPress database before installing Booster and after, and found it had loaded 1226 autoload options and 146 additional queries. That was in 2019.

This post explores the question for 2023 – does Booster for WooCommerce still clog up your WooCommerce website? Fair warning: everything below is a snapshot from early 2023, so if you're reading this much later, treat the numbers as a starting point and run your own check.

Before installing Booster

Fresh installation of WordPress with all plugins deleted except WooCommerce:

wp_options table row count and size on a fresh WordPress and WooCommerce install, before Booster for WooCommerce is installed — BEFORE – wp_options table

Autoloaded data size in wp_options before Booster for WooCommerce is installed — BEFORE – Autoloaded data

After installing Booster

Wait, what? I couldn't believe what I was seeing. There was hardly any increase in database tables!

Activate ALL modules!

I tried to activate all the modules on Booster for WooCommerce to see how much it would change, and boy was I surprised by the results:

wp_options table with every Booster for WooCommerce module activated, now long enough to need a scrollbar — AFTER – wp_options with all Booster modules activated (note the scrollbar)

Query count on the frontend Shop page with every Booster for WooCommerce module activated — AFTER – frontend Shop page with all modules activated. Ok, that's quite a lot of queries...

How about only one module?

For my site, I only need multicurrency at this moment, so I'll just activate that one module and deactivate the rest:

Query count on the frontend Shop page with only the Multicurrency module activated — AFTER – frontend Shop page with just the Multicurrency module activated

Conclusion

I'm pleasantly surprised to find that Booster for WooCommerce seems to now be a much lighter plugin, while still remaining very functional. Having 100+ functions within one plugin is appealing too, since it reduces the chances of anything breaking due to incompatible plugins during updates. I'm unbanning Booster for WooCommerce for client use.

Well done, Booster team!