EasyBooster

External services

EasyBooster does not add any third-party service to your site on its own. It only optimizes the loading of resources that you have already added (a Google Fonts stylesheet, a GA4 tag, a YouTube/Vimeo/Google Maps embed, or Gravatar avatars). For those resources it adds preconnect / dns-prefetch resource hints so the browser can open the connection earlier, and for embeds it defers loading until the visitor interacts. These hints cause the visitor’s browser to make an early network connection (which exposes the visitor’s IP address, as any request to that host would) only when the corresponding resource is already present on the page. The plugin itself sends no additional personal data. Additionally, when your site enqueues a third-party font stylesheet (other than Google Fonts), EasyBooster may fetch that stylesheet once from your server (not the visitor’s browser) to read its @font-face rules and apply font-display: swap . This server-side request downloads only the CSS file you already load; it sends no personal data and the result is cached.

The services involved are:

Google Fonts — Used only when your site already enqueues a Google Fonts stylesheet. EasyBooster adds a preconnect hint to fonts.googleapis.com and fonts.gstatic.com so the font can load faster. The browser connects to Google (exposing the visitor’s IP address) when the page loads. Terms: https://policies.google.com/terms — Privacy: https://policies.google.com/privacy — Google Fonts privacy: https://developers.google.com/fonts/faq/privacy

Google Analytics 4 / Google Tag Manager — Used only when your site already includes a GA4 (gtag.js) tag or references googletagmanager.com. EasyBooster delays the firing of an existing GA4 tag until the visitor interacts (or after 5 seconds), and adds a preconnect hint to www.googletagmanager.com. Data is sent to Google by your own tag, on the same events as before — EasyBooster only changes the timing; it does not add tracking. Terms: https://policies.google.com/terms — Privacy: https://policies.google.com/privacy

Google Maps — Used only when your content already embeds a Google Map. EasyBooster replaces the embed with a lightweight placeholder and adds a dns-prefetch / preconnect hint to maps.googleapis.com. The map (and any request to Google) loads only after the visitor clicks the placeholder. Terms: https://cloud.google.com/maps-platform/terms — Privacy: https://policies.google.com/privacy

Gravatar — Used only when avatar display (“Show Avatars”) is enabled in your WordPress discussion settings, in which case WordPress core loads avatars from secure.gravatar.com. EasyBooster only adds a dns-prefetch hint for that host; the avatar images themselves are handled by WordPress core, not by this plugin. Terms: https://wordpress.com/tos/ — Privacy: https://automattic.com/privacy/

YouTube / Vimeo — Used only when your content already embeds a YouTube or Vimeo video. EasyBooster defers the embed until the visitor interacts and adds a dns-prefetch hint for the relevant hosts (youtube.com, i.ytimg.com, player.vimeo.com). The video (and any request to these services) loads only when the visitor plays it. YouTube — Terms: https://www.youtube.com/t/terms — Privacy: https://policies.google.com/privacy Vimeo — Terms: https://vimeo.com/terms — Privacy: https://vimeo.com/privacy