Case Study: Fastest Contact Form Plugin

Question:

What is the fastest contact form plugin?

The Forms:

 

Testing Tools:

Results:

Answer: 

Using a basic scoring method, (+1 for first (green), 0 for the middle (yellow), and -1 for last (red)) each plugins received a score below.

  • Contact Form 7: 11
  • Gravity Forms: -3
  • Ninja Forms: -7
  • WPForms: 1

Contact Form 7 is clearly the fastest across all speed tests. It received 11 first place metrics and 0 last place metrics. Ninja form received 9 last place metrics and only 2 first place matrics and was the slowest of all of the plugins.