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Vibes
Truthful user experience and browsing performances monitoring.
The facts
- Rating
- 5★ from 2
- Active installs
- 300+
- Price
- Free
- Last updated
- 18 Aug 2026
- Added
- Dec 2021
- Requires WP
- 6.4
- Tested up to
- WP 7.1
- Requires PHP
- 8.2
- Downloads
- 19,383
Our analysis
AI-assistedVibes is a WordPress plugin designed for monitoring user experience and browsing performance. It autonomously tracks various performance metrics from the user's perspective, without needing external services or API keys. This makes it suitable for any hosting environment, including staging and password-protected sites.
The plugin provides detailed reports on navigation performance KPIs, network timelines, resource details, and key Web Vitals. It can segment data based on user type, channel, country, and device class, and supports WP-CLI commands for performance signal display and settings management.
Best for: This plugin is suitable for site administrators looking to monitor and improve user experience and performance metrics.
What it does well
- ✓Monitors user experience and browsing performance
- ✓Works without external services or API keys
- ✓Supports multisite report delegation
- ✓Offers detailed performance metrics
- ✓Integrates with other free and open source tools
Where it falls short
- •Limited information on specific features or usability
- •No warranty or support guarantee provided
Verdict
Vibes offers a comprehensive solution for tracking user experience on WordPress sites. It is particularly useful for those who need detailed performance insights without relying on external services.
From the developer
Pierre Lannoy's own description of Vibes, lightly tidied.
Truthful user experience and browsing performances monitoring.
Vibes is a robust user experience and browsing performances monitoring solution that analyzes perceived performances from users’ viewpoint.
It is fully autonomous – does not rely on external services and does not require any API keys, works on any type of hosting and in any type of environment – including staging, intranets or password protected sites.
By continuously monitoring user experience, Vibes can report:
- navigation performance KPIs per pages – like latency, redirections, browser caching hit rates, etc.;
- network timelines as if you were in the dev tools of your users’ browsers;
- resources details – like initiators, protocols, mime types, average sizes, etc.;
- Web Vitals: LCP, FID, CLS, FCP and TTFB.
It can segment all this data per:
- user type (anonymous vs. authenticated);
- channel (frontend vs. backend);
- country (requires the free IP Locator plugin);
- device classes and types (requires the free Device Detector plugin).
Vibes supports multisite report delegation (see FAQ).
Vibes supports WP-CLI commands to:
- display (past or current) performances signals in console – see
wp help vibes tailfor details; - toggle on/off main settings – see
wp help vibes settingsfor details.
For a full help on WP-CLI commands in Vibes, please read this guide.
Vibes is part of PerfOps One, a suite of free and open source WordPress plugins dedicated to observability and operations performance.
Vibes is a free and open source plugin for WordPress. It integrates many other free and open source works (as-is or modified). Please, see ‘about’ tab in the plugin settings to see the details.
Support
This plugin is free and provided without warranty of any kind. Use it at your own risk, I’m not responsible for any improper use of this plugin, nor for any damage it might cause to your site. Always backup all your data before installing a new plugin.
Anyway, I’ll be glad to help you if you encounter issues when using this plugin. Please read carefully the FAQ at the bottom of this page before requesting support.
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