WordPress provides you with a tool that is essential for maintaining your website’s health. On your dashboard, the Tools -> Site Health section provides an overview of your site’s performance and security status. It helps ensure that your site runs optimally by checking for issues like outdated software, missing security features, or misconfigurations.
- Status: Lists critical and recommended improvements.
- Info: Provides detailed server and site information such as PHP version, themes, and plugins.
- Debugging: Helps identify potential problems.
- Performance: Suggests ways to improve loading speed.
- Security: Highlights areas to enhance security such as HTTPS, file permissions, etc.
The page shows information about your WordPress configuration and items that may need your attention. On the top it shows critical issues that may have a high impact on the performance or security of your site, resolving these issues should be prioritized.
It also recommends some improvements, these are basically the tasks that are considered beneficial to your site, although not as important to prioritize as a critical issue, they may include improvements to things such as the performance and user experience of your website.