WordPress lifts every autoloaded option on every page view. Abandoned plugins leave megabytes behind and your whole site pays for it. See the weight, blame the culprit, clean it safely.
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“The site felt slow everywhere, front end and admin. Turned out 6 MB of autoloaded junk from three plugins uninstalled two years ago was loading on every single request.”— the invisible tax on WordPress speed
Caching plugins don't touch it. Hosting upgrades paper over it. The fix is to stop loading data you don't need — and Autoload Cleaner shows you exactly what that is.
No guessing at cryptic option names, no risky raw SQL. A clean interface that tells you what each row is, where it came from, and whether it's safe to remove.
Your total autoload weight on a colour-coded gauge — excellent under 300 KB, healthy under 800 KB, needs attention, critical — plus a 30-day trend so you can see the effect of every cleanup and catch new bloat creeping back.
Core, a named installed plugin (with active/inactive state), the theme, a transient, or an orphan — including known-brand debris like “left behind by Yoast SEO, not installed”. Each row carries a plain-English description, so a mystery option name becomes an obvious decision.
Stop autoloading keeps the option but takes it out of the every-page load — the gentle fix for big rows you still use. Delete removes it with a 20-entry undo trash (restore puts it back, not autoloaded). Around thirty core options WordPress needs are protected and undeletable.
Expired transients and their timeout partners are safe to remove and often the quickest win. Clear them all in one click; whatever created them rebuilds on demand. Filter the table by name and hide core rows to focus on the debris.
Total autoloaded weight in one figure, banded so you know instantly whether you have a problem.
Sorted biggest-first with a size and share bar, so the highest-value cleanups are always at the top.
Which plugin, and whether it's even still installed. Orphans from removed plugins are the easy wins.
Stop autoloading, or delete with undo. Nothing you can't reverse; nothing core you can break.
You can clean autoload with phpMyAdmin and a strong nerve. Here's what a purpose-built tool changes.
| WP Autoload Cleaner (us) | phpMyAdmin & raw SQL | |
|---|---|---|
| See the total & per-row weight | ✓ Gauge + sorted table | ◐ A query you write yourself |
| Know which plugin left a row | ✓ Attributed + described | ✗ Guess from the name |
| Stop autoloading (keep the data) | ✓ One click | ◐ UPDATE … SET autoload |
| Delete with undo | ✓ 20-entry trash | ✗ Gone is gone |
| Protection for core options | ✓ ~30 undeletable | ✗ One typo from disaster |
| Expired-transient purge | ✓ One click | ◐ A careful WHERE clause |
| Trend over time | ✓ 30-day snapshot | ✗ Re-run manually |
| Database access required | ✓ None — runs in wp-admin | ✗ phpMyAdmin / SSH |
Comfortable with raw SQL on a live database? You can do most of this by hand. Everyone else — and everyone who values an undo button — keeps reading. Full comparison →
Every plan includes every feature — gauge, attribution, safe cleanup, undo, transient purge, trend. You're only choosing how many sites.
Up to 10 sites
25 sites · for agencies
Up to 100 sites
Up to 100 sites, forever
Prices in USD. Licence keys are domain-based — no accounts, no phoning home. VAT invoices available.
On every single page view — front end and admin — WordPress loads all the options in wp_options marked "autoload" into memory in one query. It is meant to hold small, frequently-used settings. Abandoned plugins, cached data and runaway logs bloat it into megabytes, and then every request pays the cost. Trimming it is one of the highest-value, lowest-risk speed wins there is.
Under 800 KB is the commonly cited healthy limit; under 300 KB is excellent. Many struggling sites sit at 3–10 MB without anyone noticing. The plugin shows your total on a colour-coded gauge so you know instantly which band you are in.
Two safeguards. First, around thirty core options WordPress genuinely needs are protected and cannot be deleted at all. Second, every row offers the gentle fix — "Stop autoloading", which keeps the option but takes it out of the every-page load — and deletion keeps a 20-entry undo trash so you can restore anything. Start by stopping autoload on the big rows; only delete once you are confident nothing misses them.
Every row is attributed: WordPress core, a specific installed plugin (with its active/inactive state), your theme, a transient, a known-brand orphan ("left behind by Yoast SEO, not installed") or unattributed debris. Each comes with a plain-English description so you are never guessing.
Yes — one click purges every expired transient (and its timeout partner). These are safe to remove; whatever created them rebuilds them on demand.
A daily snapshot builds a 30-day trend so you can see the effect of your cleanup and catch new bloat as it creeps back in. Set it and forget it.
Order through the form and your licence key and invoice arrive by email, usually within the hour. Keys are domain-based — no account, no phoning home, no lock-in.
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Order below and your licence key and invoice arrive by email — usually within the hour. Install, open the gauge, and clear your first megabyte of dead weight in minutes.
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