Category · recomputed daily
performance plugins
946 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.
946
plugins
21,465,610+
combined reach
444
released in 90 days
22%
quiet 18 months+
11
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 06 Sep 2026 | Easy PHP Settings | 1,000+ | reopened |
| 03 Sep 2026 | BoltAudit – Site Speed Audit and Performance Insights | 100+ | changed hands |
| 31 Aug 2026 | Easy PHP Settings | 1,000+ | closed |
| 28 Aug 2026 | InstantClick | 50+ | released after a long silence |
| 27 Aug 2026 | AT Search Console | fewer than 10 | released after a long silence |
| 23 Aug 2026 | SuperFlare Cache – Cloudflare Full-Page Cache & CDN Optimization | 60+ | released after a long silence |
| 21 Aug 2026 | GoCache | 800+ | released after a long silence |
| 19 Aug 2026 | WP Performance | 200+ | released after a long silence |
| 16 Aug 2026 | Massoftind Asset Manager | fewer than 10 | reopened |
| 11 Aug 2026 | TurboPress Embed | 10+ | released after a long silence |
| 05 Aug 2026 | Massoftind Asset Manager | fewer than 10 | closed |
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★ | 5 days ago |
| Jetpack – WP Security, Backup, Speed, & Growth Improve your WP security with powerful one-click tools like backup, WAF, and malware scan. Includes free tools like stats, CDN and social sharing. | 3,000,000+ | 3.7★ | 6 days ago |
| Image Optimization – Compress Images and Convert to WebP or AVIF Automatically resize, optimize, and convert images to WebP and AVIF. Compress images in bulk or on upload to boost your WordPress site performance. | 1,000,000+ | 1.7★ | 2 months 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★ | 13 days ago |
| ManageWP Worker A better way to manage dozens of WordPress websites. | 1,000,000+ | 4.6★ | 17 days ago |
| WP Fastest Cache – WordPress Cache Plugin The simplest and fastest WP Cache system | 1,000,000+ | 4.9★ | 19 days ago |
| WP Super Cache A very fast caching engine for WordPress that produces static html files. | 1,000,000+ | 4.3★ | 11 days 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★ | 2 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★ | 17 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★ | 4 months ago |
| AMP An easier path to great Page Experience for everyone. Powered by AMP. | 400,000+ | 3.8★ | 17 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★ | 14 days ago |
| 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★ | 4 days ago |
| WebP Express Serve autogenerated WebP images instead of jpeg/png to browsers that supports WebP. | 300,000+ | 4.4★ | 3 months 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★ | 21 days ago |
| Page Optimize Optimize pages for faster load and render in the browser. | 200,000+ | 3.0★ | 4 months ago |
| Query Monitor Query Monitor is the developer tools panel for WordPress and WooCommerce. | 200,000+ | 4.9★ | 3 months 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★ | 17 days 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★ | 7 days ago |
| Cache Enabler A lightweight caching plugin for WordPress that makes your website faster by generating static HTML files. | 100,000+ | 4.3★ | 6 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 |
| TinyPNG – JPEG, PNG & WebP image compression Speed up your website. Optimize your JPEG, PNG, and WebP images automatically with TinyPNG. | 100,000+ | 4.5★ | 13 days ago |
| Modern Image Formats Converts images to more modern formats such as WebP or AVIF during upload. | 100,000+ | 3.5★ | 12 days 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. | 90,000+ | 2.0★ | 22 days 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★ | 14 days 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. | 70,000+ | 4.7★ | 3 years ago · quiet |
| 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★ | 6 days ago |
| Speculative Loading Enables browsers to speculatively prerender or prefetch pages to achieve near-instant loads based on user interaction. | 70,000+ | 5.0★ | 12 days 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 … | 70,000+ | 4.6★ | 18 days ago |
| Super Page Cache – Cloudflare Cache, Page Speed & Core Web Vitals Boost PageSpeed, SEO, and Core Web Vitals with full page caching, JS/CSS optimization, media optimization, and Cloudflare CDN. | 70,000+ | 4.8★ | 7 days ago |
| Disable Emojis (GDPR friendly) Disable the WordPress emoji functionality to improve performance and privacy. | 60,000+ | 5.0★ | 3 months ago |
| Image Placeholders Displays placeholders based on an image's dominant color while the image is loading. | 60,000+ | 3.5★ | 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 |
| Enhanced Responsive Images Improvements for responsive images in WordPress. | 50,000+ | — | 12 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. | 50,000+ | 4.7★ | 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★ | 12 days 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★ | 4 months ago |
| Seraphinite Accelerator Turns on site high speed to be attractive for people and search engines. | 50,000+ | 4.8★ | 4 days 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 |
| Performant Translations Making internationalization/localization in WordPress faster than ever before. | 40,000+ | 4.9★ | 19 days ago |
| Debloat – Remove Unused CSS, Optimize JS Remove Unused CSS, Optimize CSS, Optimize JS and speed up your site. | 30,000+ | 4.8★ | 6 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★ | 10 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★ | 3 months 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★ | 1 month 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 |
| 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★ | 6 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★ | 3 months 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★ | 17 days 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★ | 10 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+ | 3.0★ | 19 days ago |
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