Category · recomputed daily
speed plugins
272 plugins in the directory carry the speed tag. This page leads with what has moved in the last 90 days, because a ranked list of the biggest ones is available anywhere.
272
plugins
1,710,710+
combined reach
79
released in 90 days
40%
quiet 18 months+
1
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 21 Aug 2026 | GoCache | 800+ | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| Cloudflare All of Cloudflare’s performance and security benefits in a simple one-click install. | 200,000+ | 3.5★ | 2 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 |
| 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 |
| A2 Optimized WP – Turbocharge and secure your WordPress site Make your site faster and more secure with the click of a few buttons | 60,000+ | 3.1★ | 19 months ago · quiet |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Prevent Browser Caching Prevents browser cache problems: visitors always get the current version of your CSS, JS, images and pages, while caching keeps working. | 10,000+ | 4.9★ | 16 days ago |
| WP Compress – Instant Performance & Speed Optimization Everything you need for a faster website – smart optimization, advanced caching, adaptive images, WebP creation, script improvements, optional CDN del … | 10,000+ | 4.5★ | 3 days ago |
| WP Performance Score Booster – Optimize Speed, Enable Cache & Page Preload Make website faster, speed up page load time and improve performance scores in tools like Google PageSpeed Insights, GTmetrix, Pingdom, and more. | 10,000+ | 4.6★ | 17 days ago |
| Cachify Smart, efficient cache solution for WordPress. Use DB, HDD, Redis or Memcached for storing your blog pages. Make WordPress faster! | 9,000+ | 4.7★ | 15 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 |
| Hyper Cache Hyper Cache is a performant and easy to configure cache system for WordPress. | 8,000+ | 4.5★ | 7 months ago |
| Scripts To Footer Move your scripts to the footer to help speed up perceived page load times and improve user experience. | 7,000+ | 4.7★ | 10 months ago |
| Swift Performance Lite Swift Performance is a cache and performance booster plugin. It can speed up your site, improve SEO scores and user experience. | 6,000+ | 3.6★ | 6 months ago |
| FastPixel Cache – Optimize Page Speed: Compress Images, Minify, Clean Database & CDN Optimize Core Web Vitals and PageSpeed with advanced caching, image compression, lazy loading, critical CSS, and CDN – the ultimate performance tool. | 4,000+ | 4.8★ | 2 months ago |
| BerqWP – All-In-One Optimization for Core Web Vitals, Cache, CDN, Images, CSS & JavaScript Automatically boost your PageSpeed score to 90+ for both mobile & desktop and pass Core Web Vitals for WordPress website without any technical skills. | 4,000+ | 4.2★ | 2 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 |
| Staatic – Static Site Generator for WordPress Use WordPress as your CMS, then publish a fast, lower-exposure static version of your site. | 3,000+ | 4.4★ | 2 months ago |
| WPBase Cache A wordpress plugin for using all caches on varnish, nginx, php-fpm stack with php-apc. This plugin includes db-cache-reloaded-fix for dbcache. | 3,000+ | 5.0★ | 19 months ago · quiet |
| Falcon – Cache, Performance, Security, Cleanup, and Tweaks A lightweight WordPress plugin for performance, security, cleanup, and everyday tweaks. | 2,000+ | 5.0★ | 21 days ago |
| Assets manager, dequeue scripts, dequeue styles for WordPress Increase the speed of the pages by disabling unused scripts (.JS) and styles (.CSS). Make your website REACTIVE! | 2,000+ | 4.3★ | 17 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 |
| Fastcache by Host.it FastCache è un plugin WordPress per caching avanzato, CDN e ottimizzazione delle prestazioni, sviluppato e supportato interamente in Italia. | 1,000+ | 5.0★ | 6 days ago |
| Fastly Integrates Fastly with WordPress publishing tools. This is the official Fastly plugin for WordPress. The official code repository for this plugin is a … | 1,000+ | 5.0★ | 11 months ago |
| Quicklink for WordPress ⚡️ Faster subsequent page-loads by prefetching in-viewport links during idle time. | 1,000+ | 5.0★ | 17 months ago |
| Specify Missing Image Dimensions This plugin helps to add missing width and height attributes to images. | 1,000+ | 4.5★ | 4 years ago · quiet |
| Templ Optimizer Optimize your site and improve its performance with a few clicks. | 1,000+ | 5.0★ | 19 months ago · quiet |
| Widget Detector for Elementor Detect Elementor Widgets used on pages, also detect not used Widgets or Missing Widgets. | 1,000+ | 4.9★ | 3 months ago |
| Easy Optimizer – PageSpeed, Cache & Core Web Vitals (Unused CSS, Delay JS, Lazy Load) All-in-one speed plugin: page cache, unused CSS, delay JS, lazy load, LCP preload, WebP & Core Web Vitals. Free, no premium-locked features. | 800+ | 4.5★ | 6 days ago |
| GoCache Acelere seu site e reduza seus custos com cloud. | 800+ | 5.0★ | 17 days ago |
| Batcache Batcache uses Memcached to store and serve rendered pages. | 700+ | 4.5★ | 6 years ago · quiet |
| RapidLoad AI – Optimize Web Vitals Automatically Supercharge your website with RapidLoad AI, featuring cutting-edge AI to automate optimizing CSS, JavaScript, images, fonts, and caching. | 700+ | 4.2★ | 5 months ago |
| WebP Express Plus Exclusion of necessary images from processing by the "WebP Express" plugin | 600+ | 5.0★ | 3.5 years ago · quiet |
| Cloudflare Page Cache Adds support for caching pages on Cloudflare and automatic purging when content changes. | 500+ | 5.0★ | 7 years ago · quiet |
| F12 Profiler Comprehensive WordPress performance analysis with crawling, load time measurement, server diagnostics, and integrated optimization tools. Free. | 500+ | 4.0★ | 7 months ago |
| Shift8 CDN This is a plugin that integrates a 100% free CDN service operated by Shift8, for your Wordpress site. What this means is that you can simply install t … | 500+ | 4.4★ | 7 months ago |
| Tada: Instant Webpage Loading, Fast Website Browsing Make your website load more quickly. | 500+ | 4.0★ | 2.5 years ago · quiet |
| Cache Using Gzip Lightweight WordPress caching with gzip compression for faster page loads — no complicated settings. | 400+ | 5.0★ | 24 days ago |
| Hyper Cache Extended Hyper Cache Extended is flexible and easy to configure cache system for WordPress. It's aim is to work on any installation. | 300+ | 4.9★ | 8 years ago · quiet |
| PHP Vitals How fast is your web host? Dozens of PHP speed tests, 1 overall grade: The easy way to compare hosting performance. | 300+ | 5.0★ | 10 days ago |
| 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 |
| WP GZip Simple plugin to enable or disable the GZip on your site. Only works on Apache servers | 300+ | — | 10 years ago · quiet |
| Zedna WP Image Lazy Load Image lazy load plugin to boost page load time and save bandwidth by removing all the images, background-images, responsive images, iframes and videos … | 300+ | 4.5★ | 6.5 years ago · quiet |
| Footprint – Find what slows your site Find which plugins and theme slow down your site. Real per-component measurements on your own server, plus an optional community A-E score. | 200+ | 5.0★ | 2 months ago |
| Page Speed Insights Displays and measures page performance according to the Google PageSpeed Insights. | 200+ | 5.0★ | 3 years ago · quiet |
| 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 |
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