Plugins Can Slow Your Site Down

Some plugins will use the hosting resources to do compressions and optimizations. That could slow your site down potentially as you're doing that work. Another setting that is really problematic that I find is the plugin option to keep the original image that was uploaded. And while that's not a problem for your site speed initially, it will make your hosting bill go up because you're having double the images so you need more space. So then other than images kind of back on the plugin side, a lot of plugins will load things that you don't need. There's a couple of plugins that you can use to temporarily use that will monitor what things are loading.