I ran some tests to determine the speed impact of removing unnecessary third-party extensions, per this article: https://www.integer-net.com/make-magento-2-small-again/ The TL;DR is that pages loaded about 10% faster (with full_page and block_html disabled) with the unnecessary extensions removed.
Extensions I removed:
"replace": {
"magento/module-dhl": "*",
"magento/module-fedex": "*",
"magento/module-marketplace": "*",
"magento/module-multishipping": "*",
"magento/module-persistent": "*",
"magento/module-google-adwords": "*",
"magento/module-sample-data": "*",
"magento/module-send-friend": "*",
"magento/module-swagger": "*",
"magento/module-swagger-webapi": "*",
"magento/module-swagger-webapi-async": "*",
"magento/module-google-optimizer": "*",
"magento/module-ups": "*",
"magento/module-usps": "*",
"magento/module-braintree": "*",
"magento/module-signifyd": "*",
"magento/module-release-notification": "*",
"magento/module-new-relic-reporting": "*",
"magento/module-version": "*",
"magento/module-analytics": "*",
"magento/module-catalog-analytics": "*",
"magento/module-customer-analytics": "*",
"magento/module-quote-analytics": "*",
"magento/module-review-analytics": "*",
"magento/module-sales-analytics": "*",
"magento/module-wishlist-analytics": "*",
"magento/module-bundle-graph-ql": "*",
"magento/module-catalog-graph-ql": "*",
"magento/module-catalog-inventory-graph-ql": "*",
"magento/module-catalog-url-rewrite-graph-ql": "*",
"magento/module-cms-graph-ql": "*",
"magento/module-cms-url-rewrite-graph-ql": "*",
"magento/module-inventory-graph-ql": "*",
"magento/module-configurable-product-graph-ql": "*",
"magento/module-customer-graph-ql": "*",
"magento/module-downloadable-graph-ql": "*",
"magento/module-eav-graph-ql": "*",
"magento/module-graph-ql": "*",
"magento/module-grouped-product-graph-ql": "*",
"magento/module-quote-graph-ql": "*",
"magento/module-store-graph-ql": "*",
"magento/module-swatches-graph-ql": "*",
"magento/module-tax-graph-ql": "*",
"magento/module-url-rewrite-graph-ql": "*",
"magento/module-weee-graph-ql": "*",
"magento/module-graph-ql-cache": "*",
"magento/module-directory-graph-ql": "*",
"magento/module-inventory-export-stock": "*",
"magento/module-inventory-reservation-cli": "*",
"magento/module-authorizenet-graph-ql": "*",
"magento/module-braintree-graph-ql": "*",
"magento/module-paypal-graph-ql": "*",
"magento/module-related-product-graph-ql": "*",
"magento/module-send-friend-graph-ql": "*",
"magento/module-wishlist-graph-ql": "*",
"magento/google-shopping-ads": "*",
"magento/module-inventory-advanced-checkout": "*",
"magento/module-inventory-requisition-list": "*",
"magento/module-admin-analytics": "*",
"magento/module-inventory": "*",
"magento/module-inventory-admin-ui": "*",
"magento/module-inventory-api": "*",
"magento/module-inventory-bundle-product": "*",
"magento/module-inventory-bundle-product-admin-ui": "*",
"magento/module-inventory-cache": "*",
"magento/module-inventory-catalog": "*",
"magento/module-inventory-catalog-admin-ui": "*",
"magento/module-inventory-catalog-api": "*",
"magento/module-inventory-catalog-search": "*",
"magento/module-inventory-configurable-product": "*",
"magento/module-inventory-configurable-product-admin-ui": "*",
"magento/module-inventory-configurable-product-indexer": "*",
"magento/module-inventory-configuration": "*",
"magento/module-inventory-configuration-api": "*",
"magento/module-inventory-elasticsearch": "*",
"magento/module-inventory-grouped-product": "*",
"magento/module-inventory-grouped-product-admin-ui": "*",
"magento/module-inventory-grouped-product-indexer": "*",
"magento/module-inventory-import-export": "*",
"magento/module-inventory-indexer": "*",
"magento/module-inventory-low-quantity-notification": "*",
"magento/module-inventory-low-quantity-notification-admin-ui": "*",
"magento/module-inventory-low-quantity-notification-api": "*",
"magento/module-inventory-multi-dimensional-indexer-api": "*",
"magento/module-inventory-product-alert": "*",
"magento/module-inventory-reservations": "*",
"magento/module-inventory-reservations-api": "*",
"magento/module-inventory-sales": "*",
"magento/module-inventory-sales-admin-ui": "*",
"magento/module-inventory-sales-api": "*",
"magento/module-inventory-sales-frontend-ui": "*",
"magento/module-inventory-shipping": "*",
"magento/module-inventory-shipping-admin-ui": "*",
"magento/module-inventory-source-deduction-api": "*",
"magento/module-inventory-source-selection": "*",
"magento/module-inventory-source-selection-api": "*",
"magento/module-inventory-distance-based-source-selection": "*",
"temando/module-shipping-m2": "*",
"dotmailer/dotmailer-magento2-extension": "*",
"klarna/module-kp": "*",
"klarna/module-ordermanagement": "*",
"klarna/module-core": "*",
"amzn/amazon-pay-sdk-php": "*",
"amzn/amazon-pay-and-login-with-amazon-core-module": "*",
"amzn/login-with-amazon-module": "*",
"amzn/amazon-pay-module": "*",
"vertex/module-tax": "*",
"vertex/sdk": "*",
"yotpo/magento2-module-yotpo-reviews": "*",
"yotpo/magento2-module-yotpo-reviews-bundle": "*"
},
Magento 2.3.3 Open Source with a number of third-party extensions installed. Running on a 2.9 GHz Intel Core i9 MacBook Pro on Warden. Ideally these tests would have been run on a Magento 2.3.3 site with sample data, but I don't have time for that at the moment.
- The
full_pageandblock_htmlcaches were disabled - Ran Apache Benchmark 3 times, with each run hitting each url 15 times. I selected the median load time of the 3 runs.
- Did two full tests and posted both sets of results below
| Page | Before removing extensions | After removing extensions | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Simple Product | 1529 | 1347 | 88% |
| Category (showing 24 products, 516 products total in category) | 1510 | 1382 | 91.5% |
| Customer Account Login | 582 | 528 | 90.7% |
| Page | Before removing extensions | After removing extensions | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Simple Product | 1401 | 1260 | 89.9% |
| Category (showing 24 products, 516 products total in category) | 1468 | 1272 | 86.6% |
| Customer Account Login | 550 | 512 | 93% |