Best perfomance plugins for WordPress
The most popular perfomance plugins for WordPress in November 2026, in WordPress.org’s own popular order, which follows active installs. True Lazy Analytics leads with 5K+ active installs, ahead of Helper Lite for PageSpeed (2K+) and Speed-Checker (10+). All 3 plugins tagged “perfomance” are below, with figures from WordPress.org that update every day.
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Top 3 perfomance plugins
- 1.
True Lazy AnalyticsThe most installed perfomance plugin, with 5K+ active installs. Rated 4.7 from 11 reviews, last updated 1 year ago. Tested only up to WordPress 6.8.12.
- 2.
Helper Lite for PageSpeed2K+ active installs. Rated 5.0 from 9 reviews, updated 2 months ago.
- 3.
Speed-Checker10+ active installs. Only 1 review so far, last updated 3 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 6.2.15.
All 3 plugins tagged “perfomance”
True Lazy Analytics
Down in the last 7 days:59#3,087by seojacky1 year ago
This plugin enables lazy loading for Google Analytics, Microsoft Clarity, Facebook Pixel, Hotjar, Yandex Metrica (Yandex Metrika) and Liveinternet cou …
- Installs
- 5K+
- Rating
- 4.7(11)
- Downloads
- 29/day
Helper Lite for PageSpeed
Down in the last 7 days:28#4,865by seojacky2 months ago
Speed up your site with attributes decoding="async" & loading="lazy" for <img> and <iframe>.
- Installs
- 2K+
- Rating
- 5.0(9)
- Downloads
- 20/day
Speed-Checker
#44,455by aanandchamp3 years ago
Get your WordPress webiste mobile and desktop score from the Google Pagespeed API to your WordPress dashboard.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day