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optimization plugins
376 plugins in the directory carry the optimization tag. This page leads with what has moved in the last 90 days, because a ranked list of the biggest ones is available anywhere.
376
plugins
789,590+
combined reach
160
released in 90 days
22%
quiet 18 months+
5
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.
| Date | Plugin | Installs | What happened |
|---|---|---|---|
| 03 Sep 2026 | BoltAudit – Site Speed Audit and Performance Insights | 100+ | changed hands |
| 21 Aug 2026 | GoCache | 800+ | released after a long silence |
| 19 Aug 2026 | WP Performance | 200+ | released after a long silence |
| 13 Aug 2026 | SEO Author Organization Schema | fewer than 10 | released after a long silence |
| 12 Aug 2026 | ZS Action Scheduler Optimizer | 300+ | released after a long silence |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| AMP An easier path to great Page Experience for everyone. Powered by AMP. | 400,000+ | 3.8★ | 17 months ago |
| Performance Lab Performance plugin from the WordPress Performance Team, which is a collection of standalone performance features. | 100,000+ | 4.3★ | 12 days ago |
| Optimization Detective Provides a framework for leveraging real user metrics to detect optimizations for improving page performance. | 60,000+ | 4.3★ | 12 days ago |
| CompressX — AVIF & WebP Converter, Media Replacement AVIF & WebP converter with built-in media replacement for local image optimization. | 40,000+ | 5.0★ | 1 month 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★ | 12 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★ | 4 months 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★ | 3 months ago |
| Cimo – Free Instant Image Optimizer & WebP Converter Unlimited free image compression and WebP conversion, done instantly as you upload them. No quotas, no external servers, no limits. | 10,000+ | 4.9★ | 26 days 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★ | 3 months ago |
| ezCache Lightning-fast WordPress optimization — page caching, Redis Object Cache, Critical CSS, WebP images, CSS/JS optimization, and 15+ performance tools. | 10,000+ | 4.6★ | 6 days ago |
| PhastPress PhastPress automatically optimizes your site for the best possible performance. | 10,000+ | 4.9★ | 25 days ago |
| Featherweight Speed up WordPress by disabling unused features — emojis, embeds, query strings, XML-RPC, RSS and more — for fewer requests and faster pages. | 10,000+ | 4.1★ | 3 months ago |
| Speed Booster Pack ⚡ PageSpeed Optimization Suite PageSpeed optimization is vital for SEO: A faster website equals better conversions. Optimize your Core Web Vitals metrics (CLS, LCP, TBT) today! | 9,000+ | 4.3★ | 4 months ago |
| GTmetrix for WordPress GTmetrix can help you develop a faster, more efficient, and all-around improved website experience for your users. Your users will love you for it. | 8,000+ | 4.5★ | 3 years ago · quiet |
| Machete Machete is a lean and simple suite of tools that solve common WordPress annoyances: cookie bar, tracking codes, header cleanup, social sharing | 6,000+ | 5.0★ | 1 month ago |
| Specific Content For Mobile – Customize the mobile version without redirections Specific Content For Mobile allows you to create pages and posts content designed for mobile devices. | 4,000+ | 4.8★ | 16 days ago |
| Hosting Benchmark tool Benchmark your hosting server CPU, memory and disk, compare with others using simple Wordpress plugin. | 4,000+ | 4.7★ | 18 days ago |
| Helper Lite for PageSpeed Speed up your site with attributes decoding="async" & loading="lazy" for <img> and <iframe>. | 3,000+ | 5.0★ | 14 days ago |
| Speed Kit Speed Kit makes your WordPress website load instantly with one simple click. | 2,000+ | 4.0★ | 2 years ago · quiet |
| RabbitLoader RabbitLoader WordPress connection and performance dashboard. | 2,000+ | 4.6★ | 4 days ago |
| DietPress Page cache, browser cache, defer JS, critical CSS, lazy load and WordPress cleanup. Speed up your site and disable the bloat you do not need. | 2,000+ | 5.0★ | 10 days ago |
| Core Web Vitals & PageSpeed Booster Core Web Vitals (CWV) is the new ranking factor | 1,000+ | 3.9★ | 19 days ago |
| HTTP Requests Manager Limit, Debug, Optimize WP_HTTP requests. Limit by request count, page load time, reduce timeout for each request. Speed up login and admin pages. | 1,000+ | 5.0★ | 1 month ago |
| Quicklink for WordPress ⚡️ Faster subsequent page-loads by prefetching in-viewport links during idle time. | 1,000+ | 5.0★ | 17 months ago |
| Servebolt Optimizer This plugin implements Servebolt's WordPress best practices, and connects your site to the Servebolt Admin Panel. | 1,000+ | 5.0★ | 2 months ago |
| xSpeed Cache: AI-Powered Performance Hub with MCP, Caching & CDN A complete WordPress caching plugin: page cache, object cache, CDN, database cleanup and Core Web Vitals optimization, plus a built-in MCP server. | 1,000+ | 5.0★ | 5 days ago |
| JetHost Total Care – Security & Enhancements JetHost Total Care simplifies WordPress management by consolidating features like security, site enhancements and performance into a single plugin. | 900+ | 5.0★ | 4 months ago |
| GoCache Acelere seu site e reduza seus custos com cloud. | 800+ | 5.0★ | 17 days ago |
| jQuery Image Lazy Load WP add jquery lazy loading to images | 800+ | 3.1★ | 8.5 years ago · quiet |
| WP Deferred JavaScripts Defer the loading of all JavaScripts added with wp_enqueue_script(), using LABJS (an asynchronous javascript library). | 800+ | 3.2★ | 10 years ago · quiet |
| Enhanced Autoload Manager Enhanced Autoload Manager - A sleek plugin to manage and optimize autoloaded data in your WordPress database, with a modern and intuitive interface. | 600+ | 5.0★ | 2 months ago |
| F12 Profiler Comprehensive WordPress performance analysis with crawling, load time measurement, server diagnostics, and integrated optimization tools. Free. | 500+ | 4.0★ | 7 months ago |
| JavaScript to Footer This plugin automatically moves JavaScript code to page footer, speeding up page loading time. | 500+ | 2.9★ | 11 years ago · quiet |
| Memory Limit Manager Easily manage memory limits through a beautiful admin interface with advanced conflict detection. | 500+ | — | 4 days ago |
| Tada: Instant Webpage Loading, Fast Website Browsing Make your website load more quickly. | 500+ | 4.0★ | 2.5 years ago · quiet |
| CodingBunny Image Optimizer LITE Image Optimizer Lite is a WordPress plugin that optimizes, converts images to WebP or AVIF on upload, and resizes them to specified dimensions. | 400+ | 5.0★ | 10 days ago |
| WPLANG Lite Creates a separate tiny .mo file to use on a site front-end. | 400+ | — | 14 years ago · quiet |
| Plugin Disabler Plugin Disabler is a plugin that will help to optimize the website by removing unused plugins on selected pages | 300+ | 5.0★ | 6.5 years ago · quiet |
| Tweaks for Elementor Tweaks for Elementor | 300+ | 5.0★ | 4 years ago · quiet |
| Ultra Web Hosting Performance Toolkit Optimize, secure, and speed up WordPress: trim front-end bloat, clean the database, block attacks and spam, and purge every cache in one click. | 300+ | — | 24 days ago |
| Unused Media Checker Identify, inspect and delete unused media files in your media library, including integrations for Advanced Ads and Photo Gallery (10Web). | 300+ | 5.0★ | 17 days ago |
| ZS Action Scheduler Optimizer Optimize Action Scheduler by cleaning completed, failed, and canceled actions, truncating logs, and controlling the retention period. | 300+ | 5.0★ | 26 days ago |
| Admin Optimizer – Performance, Security & Site Cleanup Database cleaner, redirect manager, custom code snippets, SMTP email, 2FA, XML sitemap, duplicate post, custom post types, and more — all in one WordP … | 200+ | 5.0★ | 11 days ago |
| Object Cache for APCu – ZapCu Lightweight object caching plugin using PHP's APCu extension for fast in-memory caching and performance boost. | 200+ | — | 3 months ago |
| CSS Above The Fold Faster CSS browser rendering displaying selected fragments of your theme stylesheet file directly into the head section. | 200+ | 5.0★ | 11 years ago · quiet |
| Hungry Resource Monitor Monitor memory, CPU, and resource usage. Detect bloat from plugins, themes, and database. Weekly reports and optimization tips. | 200+ | 5.0★ | 4 months ago |
| MYAIO – Your AI-Powered Co-Founder AI-powered WordPress SEO plugin with real-time audits, smart recommendations, and controlled metadata deployment. | 200+ | — | 1 month ago |
| Simple DNS Prefetch Adds (or removes) DNS prefetching meta tags to your site and speeds up your page load speed. | 200+ | 3.7★ | 8 years ago · quiet |
| Site Speed Test – SpeedGuard Tracks Core Web Vitals for you. Every single day, for free. | 200+ | 5.0★ | 2 years ago · quiet |
| WP Head Optimizer This plugin allow you to remove unnecessary tags, links, urls, scrips and many additional things from your WordPress header to speed up site loading t … | 200+ | 5.0★ | 2.5 years ago · quiet |
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