Best optimize plugins for WordPress
The most popular optimize plugins for WordPress in November 2026, in WordPress.org’s own popular order, which follows active installs. LiteSpeed Cache leads with 7M+ active installs, ahead of WP Fastest Cache (1M+) and W3 Total Cache (900K+). All 168 plugins tagged “Optimize” are below, with figures from WordPress.org that update every day.
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Top 10 optimize plugins
- 1.
LiteSpeed CacheThe most installed optimize plugin, with 7M+ active installs. Rated 4.8 from 2,780 reviews, updated 4 days ago.
- 2.
WP Fastest Cache1M+ active installs. Rated 4.9 from 4,232 reviews, updated 3 days ago.
- 3.
W3 Total Cache900K+ active installs. Rated 4.4 from 5,420 reviews, updated 2 weeks ago.
- 4.
Autoptimize800K+ active installs. Rated 4.7 from 1,429 reviews, updated 2 weeks ago.
- 5.WP-Sweep
100K+ active installs. Rated 4.7 from 138 reviews, updated 2 months ago.
- 6.Aruba HiSpeed Cache
100K+ active installs. Rated 3.0 from 10 reviews, updated 1 week ago.
- 7.
Advanced Database Cleaner100K+ active installs. Rated 4.9 from 1,962 reviews, updated 2 months ago.
- 8.
Disable and Remove Google Fonts100K+ active installs. Rated 4.5 from 46 reviews, updated 1 month ago.
- 9.
10Web Booster60K+ active installs. Rated 4.6 from 405 reviews, updated 3 weeks ago.
- 10.
A2 Optimized WP60K+ active installs. Rated 3.1 from 43 reviews, last updated 1 year ago. Tested only up to WordPress 6.7.11.
All 168 plugins tagged “Optimize”

LiteSpeed Cache
#5by LiteSpeed Technologies4 days ago
All-in-one unbeatable acceleration & PageSpeed improvement: caching, image/CSS/JS optimization...
- Installs
- 7M+
- Rating
- 4.8(2.8K)
- Downloads
- 52.8K/day

WP Fastest Cache
#47by Emre Vona3 days ago
The simplest and fastest WP Cache system
- Installs
- 1M+
- Rating
- 4.9(4.2K)
- Downloads
- 18.6K/day

W3 Total Cache
#73by BoldGrid18 days ago
Search Engine (SEO) & Performance Optimization (WPO) via caching. Integrated caching: CDN, Page, Minify, Object, Fragment, Database support.
- Installs
- 900K+
- Rating
- 4.4(5.4K)
- Downloads
- 11K/day

Autoptimize
#77by Optimizing Matters14 days ago
Autoptimize speeds up your website by optimizing JS, CSS, images (incl. lazy-load), HTML and Google Fonts, asyncing JS, removing emoji cruft and more.
- Installs
- 800K+
- Rating
- 4.7(1.4K)
- Downloads
- 11.2K/day
WP-Sweep
Down in the last 7 days:3#295by Lester Chan2 months ago
WP-Sweep allows you to clean up unused, orphaned and duplicated data in your WordPress. It also optimizes your database tables.
- Installs
- 100K+
- Rating
- 4.7(138)
- Downloads
- 758/day
Aruba HiSpeed Cache
Up in the last 7 days:2#322by Aruba.it Dev13 days ago
Aruba HiSpeed Cache interfaces directly with an Aruba hosting platform's HiSpeed Cache service and automates its management.
- Installs
- 100K+
- Rating
- 3.0(10)
- Downloads
- 1.1K/day

Advanced Database Cleaner
#340by Younes JFR.2 months ago
Clean database by deleting orphaned data such as 'revisions', 'expired transients', optimize database and more...
- Installs
- 100K+
- Rating
- 4.9(2K)
- Downloads
- 675/day

Disable and Remove Google Fonts
#377by fontsplugin1 month ago
Improve frontend performance by disabling Google Fonts. GDPR and DSGVO friendly.
- Installs
- 100K+
- Rating
- 4.5(46)
- Downloads
- 433/day

10Web Booster
Down in the last 7 days:2#641by 10Web26 days ago
Speed up your site with 10Web Booster. Pass Core Web Vitals by optimizing HTML / CSS / JavaScript, Image Optimization, Lazy Loading, Cache, Google Fon …
- Installs
- 60K+
- Rating
- 4.6(405)
- Downloads
- 485/day

A2 Optimized WP
#668by A2 Hosting1 year ago
Make your site faster and more secure with the click of a few buttons
- Installs
- 60K+
- Rating
- 3.1(43)
- Downloads
- 103/day
WP-DBManager
Up in the last 7 days:1#701by Lester Chan3 months ago
Manages your WordPress database.
- Installs
- 50K+
- Rating
- 4.4(95)
- Downloads
- 260/day

Seraphinite Accelerator
Down in the last 7 days:20#761by Seraphinite Solutions6 days ago
Turns on site high speed to be attractive for people and search engines.
- Installs
- 50K+
- Rating
- 4.8(477)
- Downloads
- 340/day

Clearfy Cache
Up in the last 7 days:1#813by Creativemotion3 months ago
Optimize and tweak WordPress by disable unused features. Improve performance, SEO and security using Clearfy — super easy, fast and zero code.
- Installs
- 40K+
- Rating
- 4.7(339)
- Downloads
- 140/day
Debloat
Down in the last 7 days:2#960by asadkn1 month ago
Remove Unused CSS, Optimize CSS, Optimize JS and speed up your site.
- Installs
- 30K+
- Rating
- 4.8(41)
- Downloads
- 243/day
AJAX Thumbnail Rebuild
Up in the last 7 days:2#1,041by junkcoder1 month ago
Rebuild your media library one image at a time, without script timeouts - and optimise, replace, or write WebP and AVIF copies of your images.
- Installs
- 30K+
- Rating
- 4.8(90)
- Downloads
- 204/day
LWS Optimize
Up in the last 7 days:8#1,382by Aurélien LWS25 days ago
All-in-one speed optimization: caching, WebP/AVIF, Critical CSS, lazy loading, CDN, and more. Instantly boost Core Web Vitals and site speed!
- Installs
- 20K+
- Rating
- 4.6(9)
- Downloads
- 169/day

WP Performance Score Booster
Up in the last 7 days:6#1,791by Dipak Gajjar2 months ago
Make website faster, speed up page load time and improve performance scores in tools like Google PageSpeed Insights, GTmetrix, Pingdom, and more.
- Installs
- 10K+
- Rating
- 4.6(339)
- Downloads
- 44/day

Database Cleaner
#2,115by Jordy Meow9 days ago
Clean up and optimize your WordPress database: revisions, transients, autoload, orphaned data. Built for large databases, safe and fast.
- Installs
- 10K+
- Rating
- 5.0(150)
- Downloads
- 597/day

PNG to JPG
Down in the last 7 days:11#2,154by kubiq13 days ago
Convert PNG images to JPG, free up web space and speed up your webpage
- Installs
- 10K+
- Rating
- 4.7(40)
- Downloads
- 190/day

Images to WebP
Down in the last 7 days:1#2,203by kubiq1 month ago
Convert PNG, JPG and GIF images to WebP and speed up your web
- Installs
- 9K+
- Rating
- 4.4(32)
- Downloads
- 60/day

Cachify
#2,286by pluginkollektiv1 year ago
Smart, efficient cache solution for WordPress. Use DB, HDD, Redis or Memcached for storing your blog pages. Make WordPress faster!
- Installs
- 9K+
- Rating
- 4.7(47)
- Downloads
- 41/day

Code Profiler
Up in the last 7 days:3#2,430by bruandet1 month ago
A profiler to measure the performance of your WordPress plugins and themes.
- Installs
- 8K+
- Rating
- 4.3(36)
- Downloads
- 162/day
Optimize Images Resizing
#2,987by OriginalEXE9 years ago
Plugin optimizes the process of generating custom image sizes in WordPress and offers a cleanup functionality for preexisting images.
- Installs
- 5K+
- Rating
- 4.6(45)
- Downloads
- 37/day

WPSSO Core
Up in the last 7 days:10#3,294by JS Morisset10 days ago
Present your content at its best for social sites and search results, no matter how URLs are shared, reshared, messaged, posted, embedded, or crawled.
- Installs
- 4K+
- Rating
- 4.6(306)
- Downloads
- 77/day

FlyWP Helper
Up in the last 7 days:8#3,338by FlyWP2 days ago
Optimize WordPress performance with server-level caching, Redis purging, and page speed tools for FlyWP-powered cloud servers.
- Installs
- 4K+
- Rating
- 5.0(3)
- Downloads
- 189/day

JCH Optimize
Up in the last 7 days:6#3,356by codealfa20 days ago
This plugin automatically performs several front end optimizations to your site to boost performance and increase PageSpeed scores.
- Installs
- 4K+
- Rating
- 4.4(69)
- Downloads
- 38/day

BerqWP
Up in the last 7 days:8#3,370by BerqWP3 days ago
Automatically boost your PageSpeed score to 90+ for both mobile & desktop and pass Core Web Vitals for WordPress website without any technical skills.
- Installs
- 4K+
- Rating
- 4.3(54)
- Downloads
- 87/day
Powered Cache
Down in the last 7 days:5#3,903by poweredcache2 days ago
Powered Cache is the most powerful caching and performance suite for WordPress. Easily Improve PageSpeed & Web Vitals Score.
- Installs
- 3K+
- Rating
- 4.8(58)
- Downloads
- 119/day

Lazy Load Optimizer
Down in the last 7 days:17#4,135by Processby5 years ago
Lazy loading images and iframes to speed up sites page load speed.
- Installs
- 3K+
- Rating
- 4.4(24)
- Downloads
- 18/day

Better image sizes
Down in the last 7 days:10#4,525by kubiq1 month ago
Dynamically generate only needed image sizes for only needed images, with manually selected focal point for crops
- Installs
- 2K+
- Rating
- 5.0(5)
- Downloads
- 115/day
Falcon
Up in the last 7 days:20#4,542by Anh Tran19 days ago
A lightweight WordPress plugin for performance, security, cleanup, and everyday tweaks.
- Installs
- 2K+
- Rating
- 5.0(10)
- Downloads
- 68/day

AEH Speed Optimization
Up in the last 7 days:13#4,556by Passionate Brains24 days ago
AEH Speed Optimization boosts site speed with caching, minification, lazy loading, and image optimization to improve performance and SEO.
- Installs
- 2K+
- Rating
- 3.2(20)
- Downloads
- 35/day

WPSpeed
Up in the last 7 days:61#4,700by JExtensions Store10 days ago
WordPress speed optimization plugin to boost PageSpeed, improve Core Web Vitals, reduce TTFB and enable static HTML caching for 100/100 performance.
- Installs
- 2K+
- Rating
- 4.9(40)
- Downloads
- 77/day
Specify Missing Image Dimensions
Down in the last 7 days:6#5,688by yasir1294 years ago
This plugin helps to add missing width and height attributes to images.
- Installs
- 1K+
- Rating
- 4.5(11)
- Downloads
- 12/day

Offload, AI & Optimize with Cloudflare Images
Down in the last 7 days:23#5,725by Anton Vanyukov5 months ago
Offload you media library images to the Cloudflare Images service. Store, resize, optimize and deliver images in a fast and secure manner.
- Installs
- 1K+
- Rating
- 4.9(33)
- Downloads
- 36/day
Templ Optimizer
Down in the last 7 days:9#5,996by Templ1 month ago
Optimize your site and improve its performance with a few clicks.
- Installs
- 1K+
- Rating
- 5.0(3)
- Downloads
- 19/day
Image Optimizer, Resizer and CDN
Down in the last 7 days:23#6,988by Sirv CDN and Image Hosting8 days ago
Serve perfectly optimized images, videos, models and 360 spins. The best WordPress & WooCommerce CDN plugin for media.
- Installs
- 900+
- Rating
- 4.9(265)
- Downloads
- 96/day

WPTurbo -WordPress性能优化插件
Up in the last 7 days:9#7,596by wbolt.com10 months ago
WPTurbo如其名,即WordPress的涡轮增压器,是一款专门针对WordPress开发的性能优化插件,效用包括WP瘦身,WP速度优化,数据库优化及对象存储等。
- Installs
- 800+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 11/day
Google Webfont Optimizer
Down in the last 7 days:1#7,993by sigurdurg9 years ago
Makes your website faster by combining all Google Fonts in a single request. Your websites gets a higher PageSpeed score which is good for SEO.
- Installs
- 700+
- Rating
- 3.7(15)
- Downloads
- 11/day
PDF Compressor & Watermark
Down in the last 7 days:41#8,566by iLovePDF6 months ago
Optimize and protect your PDFs with automatic compression and watermarking. Save space and secure your documents effortlessly.
- Installs
- 500+
- Rating
- 3.4(5)
- Downloads
- 12/day
SweepPress
Down in the last 7 days:32#8,933by Milan Petrovic16 days ago
Remove unused, orphaned, duplicated data in your WordPress website using 55+ sweepers, manage and clean Options table, optimize database.
- Installs
- 500+
- Rating
- 5.0(5)
- Downloads
- 38/day
WP-Cleanup
#9,454by JortK16 years ago
This Wordpress plugin will cleanup your Wordpress database by remove all unused data from your database.
- Installs
- 400+
- Rating
- 4.0(3)
- Downloads
- 5/day

Image Quality Control
Up in the last 7 days:8#9,773by Daisuke Yamamoto2 months ago
Keep image quality while making files smaller for faster pages - just install and you're set, with automatic WebP and AVIF.
- Installs
- 400+
- Rating
- 5.0(4)
- Downloads
- 13/day
Speed up Contact Form 7
Down in the last 7 days:54#10,231by Hella Fast1 month ago
Loads Contact Form 7, reCAPTCHA, Turnstile and add-on assets only on pages that actually show a form.
- Installs
- 300+
- Rating
- 4.7(3)
- Downloads
- 11/day

CodingBunny Database Cleaner
Up in the last 7 days:200#11,616by CodingBunny11 days ago
Keep your WordPress database fast and clean by removing orphaned data left behind by plugins, themes, and WordPress core.
- Installs
- 200+
- Rating
- 5.0(2)
- Downloads
- 34/day

A faster website! (aka defer.js)
Down in the last 7 days:98#11,894by shinsenter1 year ago
🚀 Unleash the power of cutting edge WordPress optimization tech. 💯 SEO-Optimized and 🎯 Effortlessly User-Friendly!
- Installs
- 200+
- Rating
- 4.9(45)
- Downloads
- 7/day

Perform
Up in the last 7 days:4#11,971by Mehul Gohil3 months ago
Optimize WordPress performance with asset controls, page caching, CDN rewriting, and cleanup tools.
- Installs
- 200+
- Rating
- 5.0(2)
- Downloads
- 11/day

Powered Minifier
Up in the last 7 days:9#12,384by neoslab1 year ago
Reduce your page load by minifying your HTML source along with all the CSS and JS code present in your markup.
- Installs
- 200+
- Rating
- 5.0(2)
- Downloads
- 11/day
WP Database Cleaner
Up in the last 7 days:35#12,619by wpmize14 years ago
Cleanup and optimize the database of WordPress sites.
- Installs
- 200+
- Rating
- 4.8(6)
- Downloads
- 6/day

The Off Switch (formerly WP Avoid Slow)
Up in the last 7 days:55#12,803by Abhishek Deshpande14 days ago
Disable unused WordPress features and remove bloat. 120 switches for performance, security and WooCommerce — pure PHP, no .htaccess, no upsell.
- Installs
- 200+
- Rating
- 5.0(6)
- Downloads
- 24/day