Title: Are security plugins affects website performance?
Last modified: February 13, 2018

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# Are security plugins affects website performance?

 *  [gameslopedy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/yiggory/)
 * (@yiggory)
 * [8 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/are-security-plugins-affects-website-performance/)
 * I dont want to use security plugins just because of performance impact, what 
   do you think?

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 *  [catacaustic](https://wordpress.org/support/users/catacaustic/)
 * (@catacaustic)
 * [8 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/are-security-plugins-affects-website-performance/#post-9968103)
 * It depends on what you think is more important – a few miliseconds or processing
   time, or a site that has more chances of being hacked.
 * There is a caveat to that though. If you are good (and I mean very good) at server
   set up, optimisation and security, then there’s little chance that you’ll need
   any sort of security plugin for WordPress as you’ll most likely mitegate most
   of the possibilities through the server set up before they even get to your WordPress
   installation. However, most people that use WordPress are not that knowledgeable
   on the matter, so it’s a much better idea fo them to use *something*.
 *  Thread Starter [gameslopedy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/yiggory/)
 * (@yiggory)
 * [8 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/are-security-plugins-affects-website-performance/#post-9969809)
 * I had put some security codes into my htaccess already. Can I still use some 
   security plugins?
 *  [catacaustic](https://wordpress.org/support/users/catacaustic/)
 * (@catacaustic)
 * [8 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/are-security-plugins-affects-website-performance/#post-9971383)
 * Yes you can. Any security plugin will act after those .htaccess rules will, and
   if the rules are set up correctly they won’t be over-written by any changes that
   the security plugin or WordPress makes to your .htaccess file.

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