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performance plugins
1,075 plugins in the directory carry the performance tag. This page leads with what has moved in the last 90 days, because a ranked list of the biggest ones is available anywhere.
1,075
plugins
18,287,100+
combined reach
513
released in 90 days
20%
quiet 18 months+
23
movements in 90 days
What moved
Ownership changes, closures and long-silent plugins that shipped again, over a rolling 90-day window recomputed daily. Events older than 90 days drop off as new ones arrive. The part of this category that a directory listing cannot show. Nothing here says anything about intent. Showing the 15 most recent of 23.
| Date | Plugin | Installs | What happened |
|---|---|---|---|
| 28 Oct 2026 | WPBase Cache | 3,000+ | released after a long silence |
| 21 Oct 2026 | Flash Cache | 20+ | released after a long silence |
| 21 Oct 2026 | Loadvexa – Autoload & Cache Diagnostics | fewer than 10 | changed hands |
| 14 Oct 2026 | Insights from Google PageSpeed | 10,000+ | released after a long silence |
| 13 Oct 2026 | IndiaTVDNA Turbo Cache – Speed & Performance Optimization | fewer than 10 | changed hands |
| 11 Oct 2026 | API Stats | 80+ | released after a long silence |
| 07 Oct 2026 | Cache Cleaner X-Ray – Performance & Database Diagnostics | 200+ | released after a long silence |
| 06 Oct 2026 | ECU Remapping Performance Calculator | 90+ | reopened |
| 02 Oct 2026 | Speed up Contact Form 7 | 300+ | released after a long silence |
| 30 Sep 2026 | ECU Remapping Performance Calculator | 90+ | closed |
| 27 Sep 2026 | NiroCache – Simple Page Cache, Preload and Speed Optimization | fewer than 10 | changed hands |
| 20 Sep 2026 | Simple Plugin Selector | fewer than 10 | released after a long silence |
| 17 Sep 2026 | Templ Optimizer | 1,000+ | released after a long silence |
| 08 Sep 2026 | Cache Rocket | fewer than 10 | changed hands |
| 06 Sep 2026 | Easy PHP Settings | 1,000+ | reopened |
Most installed
The 50 most installed plugins carrying this tag, ordered by install band, which WordPress.org rounds to one significant digit. Ordering is adoption only. Nothing here is a recommendation, and no link on this page earns anything. The full directory, all categories together, is in the master list.
| Plugin | Installs | Rating | Last release |
|---|---|---|---|
| LiteSpeed Cache All-in-one unbeatable acceleration & PageSpeed improvement: caching, image/CSS/JS optimization... | 7,000,000+ | 4.8★ | 17 days ago |
| Image Optimizer – Compress Images and Convert to WebP or AVIF Image Optimizer is an easy-to-use WordPress plugin that reduces image size through various compression and resizing techniques – all of which preserve … | 1,000,000+ | 1.7★ | 1 month ago |
| Speed Optimizer – The All-In-One Performance-Boosting Plugin Boost your website performance and page speed, and increase conversions with powerful caching, frontend, media, and environment optimizations. | 1,000,000+ | 4.2★ | 17 days ago |
| ManageWP Worker A better way to manage dozens of WordPress websites. | 1,000,000+ | 4.6★ | 3 months ago |
| WP Fastest Cache – WordPress Cache Plugin The simplest and fastest WP Cache system | 1,000,000+ | 4.9★ | 27 days ago |
| WP Super Cache A very fast caching engine for WordPress that produces static html files. | 1,000,000+ | 4.3★ | 1 month ago |
| W3 Total Cache Search Engine (SEO) & Performance Optimization (WPO) via caching. Integrated caching: CDN, Page, Minify, Object, Fragment, Database support. | 900,000+ | 4.4★ | 16 days ago |
| Autoptimize Autoptimize speeds up your website by optimizing JS, CSS, images (incl. lazy-load), HTML and Google Fonts, asyncing JS, removing emoji cruft and more. | 800,000+ | 4.7★ | 12 days ago |
| Redis Object Cache A persistent object cache backend powered by Redis®¹. Supports Predis, PhpRedis, Relay, replication, sentinels, clustering and WP-CLI. | 500,000+ | 4.5★ | 2 months ago |
| Custom Fonts – Host Your Fonts Locally Custom Fonts is a powerful WordPress plugin that allows you to upload your own custom fonts or choose from a vast collection of Google Fonts, all host … | 400,000+ | 4.3★ | 2 months ago |
| AMP An easier path to great Page Experience for everyone. Powered by AMP. | 300,000+ | 3.8★ | 19 months ago · quiet |
| Breeze Cache Breeze is a caching plugin developed by Cloudways. Breeze uses advance caching systems to improve site loading times exponentially. | 300,000+ | 3.6★ | 17 days ago |
| WebP Express Serve autogenerated WebP images instead of jpeg/png to browsers that supports WebP. | 300,000+ | 4.4★ | 19 days ago |
| Jetpack Boost – Website Speed, Performance and Critical CSS Speed up your WordPress site with one-click optimizations like Page Cache, Critical CSS, and Image CDN to improve Core Web Vitals. | 200,000+ | 4.7★ | 29 days ago |
| Page Optimize Optimize pages for faster load and render in the browser. | 200,000+ | 3.0★ | 18 days ago |
| Query Monitor Query Monitor is the developer tools panel for WordPress and WooCommerce. | 200,000+ | 4.9★ | 10 days ago |
| Advanced Database Cleaner – Optimize & Clean Database to Speed Up Site Performance Clean database by deleting orphaned data such as 'revisions', 'expired transients', optimize database and more... | 100,000+ | 4.9★ | 3 months ago |
| Aruba HiSpeed Cache Aruba HiSpeed Cache interfaces directly with an Aruba hosting platform's HiSpeed Cache service and automates its management. | 100,000+ | 3.0★ | 11 days ago |
| Cache Enabler A lightweight caching plugin for WordPress that makes your website faster by generating static HTML files. | 100,000+ | 4.3★ | 1 month ago |
| Manage – Centralized site maintenance and monitoring Manage provides a centralized dashboard to monitor, optimize, and maintain your WordPress sites without switching between individual sites. | 100,000+ | 2.0★ | 29 days ago |
| Performance Lab Performance plugin from the WordPress Performance Team, which is a collection of standalone performance features. | 100,000+ | 4.3★ | 2 months ago |
| TinyPNG Image Optimization – Image Compression JPEG & PNG | Convert to WebP & AVIF Speed up your website. Optimize your JPEG, PNG, and WebP images automatically with TinyPNG. | 100,000+ | 4.5★ | 24 days ago |
| Modern Image Formats Converts images to more modern formats such as WebP or AVIF during upload. | 100,000+ | 3.6★ | 2 months ago |
| NitroPack – Performance, Page Speed & Cache Plugin for Core Web Vitals, CDN & Image Optimization Boost site speed and performance with an all-in-one cache and speed optimization plugin. Pass Core Web Vitals with CDN, image optimization, lazy loadi … | 90,000+ | 4.3★ | 1 month ago |
| Hummingbird Performance – Cache & Page Speed Optimization for Core Web Vitals | Critical CSS | Minify CSS | Defer CSS Javascript | CDN Optimize PageSpeed Performance & Core Web Vitals, Advanced Cache, Minify CSS & JavaScript, Inline Critical CSS, Defer CSS & JS, Smush & Lazy Load, CDN | 70,000+ | 4.7★ | 2 months ago |
| Speculative Loading Enables browsers to speculatively prerender or prefetch pages to achieve near-instant loads based on user interaction. | 70,000+ | 5.0★ | 2 months ago |
| Async JavaScript Async Javascript lets you add 'async' or 'defer' attribute to scripts to exclude to help increase the performance of your WordPress website. | 60,000+ | 4.7★ | 3 years ago · quiet |
| Disable Emojis (GDPR friendly) Disable the WordPress emoji functionality to improve performance and privacy. | 60,000+ | 5.0★ | 5 months ago |
| Image Placeholders Displays placeholders based on an image's dominant color while the image is loading. | 60,000+ | 3.5★ | 2 months ago |
| Optimization Detective Provides a framework for leveraging real user metrics to detect optimizations for improving page performance. | 60,000+ | 4.3★ | 2 months ago |
| 10Web Booster – Website speed optimization, Cache & Page Speed optimizer Speed up your site with 10Web Booster. Pass Core Web Vitals by optimizing HTML / CSS / JavaScript, Image Optimization, Lazy Loading, Cache, Google Fon … | 60,000+ | 4.6★ | 24 days ago |
| Enhanced Responsive Images Improvements for responsive images in WordPress. | 50,000+ | — | 2 months ago |
| Embed Optimizer Optimizes the performance of embeds through lazy-loading, adding dns-prefetch links, and reserving space to reduce layout shifts. | 50,000+ | 3.0★ | 2 months ago |
| Index WP MySQL For Speed Speed up your WordPress site by adding high-performance keys (database indexes) to your MariaDB / MySQL database tables. | 50,000+ | 4.8★ | 1 month ago |
| Seraphinite Accelerator Turns on site high speed to be attractive for people and search engines. | 50,000+ | 4.8★ | 11 days ago |
| Clearfy Cache – WordPress optimization plugin, Minify HTML, CSS & JS, Defer Optimize and tweak WordPress by disable unused features. Improve performance, SEO and security using Clearfy — super easy, fast and zero code. | 40,000+ | 4.7★ | 3 months ago |
| Image Prioritizer Prioritizes the loading of images and videos based on how they appear to actual visitors: adds fetchpriority, preloads, lazy-loads, and sets sizes. | 40,000+ | 5.0★ | 2 months ago |
| Debloat – Remove Unused CSS, Optimize JS Remove Unused CSS, Optimize CSS, Optimize JS and speed up your site. | 30,000+ | 4.8★ | 28 days ago |
| Performant Translations Making internationalization/localization in WordPress faster than ever before. | 30,000+ | 4.9★ | 3 months ago |
| Simply Static – The Static Site Generator Convert WordPress to static HTML. Boost performance 3-5x. Eliminate security vulnerabilities. Deploy anywhere. | 30,000+ | 4.5★ | 8 days ago |
| SpinupWP SpinupWP is a modern server control panel that's here to help you implement best practices for every server you spin up. Designed for WordPress. | 30,000+ | 5.0★ | 1 month ago |
| Docket Cache – Object Cache Accelerator Speed up your WordPress site with a persistent object cache, powered by OPcache. An efficient alternative to Redis and Memcached. | 20,000+ | 4.9★ | 22 days ago |
| Flying Pages: Preload Pages for Faster Navigation & Improved User Experience Preload pages intelligently to boost site speed and enhance user experience by loading pages before users click, ensuring instant page transitions. | 20,000+ | 4.9★ | 6 months ago |
| LWS Optimize – All-in-One Speed Booster & Cache Tools All-in-one speed optimization: caching, WebP/AVIF, Critical CSS, lazy loading, CDN, and more. Instantly boost Core Web Vitals and site speed! | 20,000+ | 4.6★ | 23 days ago |
| WP Meteor Website Speed Optimization Addon 2x-5x improvement in your Page Speed score. A completely new way of optimizing your page speed. | 20,000+ | 4.7★ | 1 month ago |
| WP YouTube Lyte High performance YouTube video, playlist and audio-only embeds which don't slow down your blog and offer optimal accessibility. | 20,000+ | 4.8★ | 3 months ago |
| AF Companion – Starter Sites, Speed Booster & Growth Suite for Professional Publishing One-Click Starter Sites, Performance Optimization, and Publisher Growth Tools | 10,000+ | 4.9★ | 23 days ago |
| bunny.net – WordPress CDN Plugin Enable Bunny CDN to speed up your WordPress website and enjoy greatly improved loading times around the world. | 10,000+ | 3.1★ | 3 months ago |
| Delete Duplicate Posts Get rid of duplicate posts and pages (any post type) on your blog with manual or automatic modes. | 10,000+ | 4.8★ | 29 days ago |
| Embed Privacy Embed Privacy prevents the loading of embedded external content and allows your site visitors to opt-in. | 10,000+ | 4.9★ | 3 months ago |
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