Title: Cheater Plugin
Last modified: August 26, 2022

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# Cheater Plugin

 *  [desmondgrey](https://wordpress.org/support/users/desmondgrey/)
 * (@desmondgrey)
 * [3 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cheater-plugin/)
 * If you are using this plugin, uninstall it now.
 * I have found out that this plugin is cheating page speed testing tools (lighthouse,
   gtmetrix, etc.).
 * If you test your website on the tools above, WP Optimize will hide your JS files
   and boom you have instant high pagespeed scores.

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 *  [BeeCee](https://wordpress.org/support/users/csigncsign/)
 * (@csigncsign)
 * [3 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cheater-plugin/#post-15962299)
 * Yes, I found this:
    [https://wptavern.com/wp-optimize-plugin-accused-of-cheating-pagespeed-and-other-performance-testing-tools](https://wptavern.com/wp-optimize-plugin-accused-of-cheating-pagespeed-and-other-performance-testing-tools)
 * How annoying!
 *  [joemilesudp](https://wordpress.org/support/users/joemilesudp/)
 * (@joemilesudp)
 * [3 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cheater-plugin/#post-15963755)
 * Hi both – WP-Optimize have investigated the claims and have confirmed we’re not
   deceiving users – it is the original accusation by Gijo Varghese on Twitter which
   is deceptive. This video shows how Gijo setup the result to make WP-Optimize 
   look deceptive: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Nb2ddy97qY](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Nb2ddy97qY).
   The advanced setting he misused is helpful to find out whether the essential 
   js/css files are actually slowing down the web page or not.
 *  Plugin Author [David Anderson / Team Updraft](https://wordpress.org/support/users/davidanderson/)
 * (@davidanderson)
 * [3 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cheater-plugin/#post-15966521)
 * [@desmondgrey](https://wordpress.org/support/users/desmondgrey/) Yes, as Joe 
   says, the expert setting is clearly marked, and has a tooltip suggesting legitimate
   use cases. Our competitor chose to ignore that, use it otherwise, and pretend
   that this was something that WP Optimize wanted him to do! That was really unfair.
   Please can you amend your review?
 * We’re also pretty unhappy that WP Tavern decided to use their reach to magnify
   these allegations and sensationalise them. If they’d given us 24 hours to respond
   before publishing it so that we could have completed an investigation, that would
   have been so much better (our main JS developer was in bed, asleep).
 *  [pipetko](https://wordpress.org/support/users/pipetko/)
 * (@pipetko)
 * [3 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cheater-plugin/#post-15994190)
 * These is a plugin that can turn off java,s scripts and CSS to show up, I will
   not name it because here is not the place.. But in the same way are the cheating
   too ?!?!?!?

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