Tests done by WP Hive Test Script
Solid Security Basic
Wordfence Security
Solid Security Basic
Wordfence Security
Memory Usage
lower is better
Tests done by WP Hive Test Script
Solid Security Basic
Wordfence Security
Average Change
- /(front page)
- /wp-admin/edit-comments.php
- /wp-admin/edit-tags.php?taxonomy=category
- /wp-admin/edit.php
- /wp-admin/index.php
- /wp-admin/media-new.php
- /wp-admin/options-discussion.php
- /wp-admin/options-writing.php
- /wp-admin/post-new.php
- /wp-admin/post-new.php?post_type=page
- /wp-admin/upload.php
+1199.73KB
- 570.07
- 586.59
- 585.7
- 597.37
- 594.29
- 583.43
- 583.46
- 584.26
- 952.21
- 950.79
- 586.57
+699.39KB
- 501.08
- 532.82
- 533.32
- 546.46
- 544.79
- 530.33
- 530.37
- 530.47
- 852.06
- 850.8
- 532.89

Winner: Wordfence Security by Wordfence
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Page Speed
lower is better
Tests done by WP Hive Test Script
Solid Security Basic
Wordfence Security
Average Change
- /(front page)
- /wp-admin/edit-comments.php
- /wp-admin/edit-tags.php?taxonomy=category
- /wp-admin/edit.php
- /wp-admin/index.php
- /wp-admin/media-new.php
- /wp-admin/options-discussion.php
- /wp-admin/options-writing.php
- /wp-admin/post-new.php
- /wp-admin/post-new.php?post_type=page
- /wp-admin/upload.php
+0.19s
- 0.3
- 0.65
- 0.36
- 0.39
- 0.57
- 0.58
- 0.59
- 0.33
- 1.42
- 0.87
- 0.66
+0.09s
- 0.22
- 0.31
- 0.3
- 0.31
- 0.53
- 0.3
- 0.52
- 0.28
- 1.09
- 0.76
- 0.57

Winner: Wordfence Security by Wordfence
Other criteria
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Criteria
Solid Security Basic
Wordfence Security
- Minimal impact on memory usage
- Minimal impact on pagespeed
- No PHP errors, warning, notices
- No Javascript issues
- Optimized database footprint
- No resource errors
- No HTTP errors on loading
- No database error
- WordPress 5.4.2 compatible
- PHP 7.2.16 compatible
- Frequently updated
- Active Users
- Total Downloads
- WordPress.org Rating
- WP Hive Overall Rating
- Support Threads
- Download Plugin
- No problems were detected during tests.
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- 382M Downloads
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