Best performance plugins for WordPress
1,114 plugins tagged “performance” on WordPress.org, in its popular order and updated daily. Research this niche or see all plugins.

Sutrify Cleaner
Up in the last 7 days:23,410#50,036by Aayush Shrestha3 months ago
All-in-one performance plugin to optimize CSS, JS, Google Fonts, database tables, and transients.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

Cache Shark
#50,046by Md Rabiul2 days ago
Fast, free page caching for WordPress with automatic cache clearing and background preloading from your sitemap.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 107/day
ModuleFest Cron Monitor
#50,095by modulefest5 days ago
See what WP-Cron is doing: profile every scheduled task, stop overlapping runs, recover stalled tasks and drive cron from a real scheduler.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 22/day

NaveenCodes Image Optimizer
Up in the last 7 days:17,445#50,125by Naveen Goyal2 months ago
Optimize WordPress images with bulk compression, upload optimization, Media Library actions, and zero tracking.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day

Samybaxy's Hyperdrive
Up in the last 7 days:2,493#50,126by Samuel Nwaokoro5 months ago
Load only essential plugins per page for 65-75% faster WordPress sites through intelligent filtering.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 2/day
Perfbase
Up in the last 7 days:20,010#50,170by Perfbase5 months ago
WordPress integration for the Perfbase APM platform.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Rayetun Site Monitor
Up in the last 7 days:1,383#50,204by Rayhan Uddin3 months ago
Real-user performance monitoring for Core Web Vitals. LCP, CLS, INP, FCP & TTFB dashboards with PSI lab tests, alerts & webhooks — zero config.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 2/day

Lightweight Related Posts BCTeam
#50,228by Blog Cutter AI2 months ago
Show related posts by category and tag. Auto-display, Gutenberg block, and shortcode. Built for WordPress 7.1.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

Klydexa Site Integrity Audit
#50,617by klydexa3 days ago
Diagnose. Understand. Fix. Protect. Local-first health, security, compatibility, performance, database and plugin-conflict auditing for WordPress.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 11/day

RS Auto WebP Convert
Up in the last 7 days:20,835#50,669by rodrigosilvano1 year ago
Automatically converts JPEG/JPG/PNG to WebP on upload, with an option to delete the original. Imagick preferred, GD fallback. No tracking.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 2/day

NCB Diagnosis
#50,676by NCB software13 days ago
Diagnose WordPress & WooCommerce problems in plain language, with a suggested fix for every finding. Read-only and safe on live sites.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 11/day

uMOVA Smooth Lessons
#50,833by Oles Dmytrenko1 month ago
Smooth lesson-to-lesson navigation and lesson completion. Upgrade to Pro for fully seamless transitions including quizzes and quiz retakes.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

NaveenCodes Site Diagnostics
Up in the last 7 days:20,075#51,234by Naveen Goyal2 months ago
All-in-one WordPress diagnostics plugin with conflict detection, Safe Mode, log analysis, performance, security, and local error guidance.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Phantom Record Buster
Up in the last 7 days:4,108#51,242by Rob Holmes7 months ago
Phantom Record Buster is a lightweight tool designed to identify and remove orphaned or 'phantom' records from your WordPress database.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

Provelopers Cache Manager
Up in the last 7 days:18,395#51,817by Provelopers7 months ago
Flush WAF, server, and WordPress caches from one dashboard. Supports GoDaddy, Sucuri, WP Rocket, W3TC, and LiteSpeed.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 2/day

Zambo Site Audit
Up in the last 7 days:7,866#52,183by rambozambo1 month ago
One-click website audit for your WordPress site, shown right in wp-admin.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

JZB Image Auto AVIF
Up in the last 7 days:7,873#52,186by Yephy6 months ago
Automatically optimize WordPress images to AVIF and WebP using an independent mirror cache and safe output buffering.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 2/day

FreshCode Image Compress Lite
#52,240by Faredul Ali10 months ago
A lightweight WordPress plugin that automatically compresses uploaded images to improve website loading speed.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Dracula77 Performance Optimizer
Up in the last 7 days:7,890#52,241by Vladimir Kuljak4 months ago
Lightweight performance optimizer for WordPress with safe and aggressive modes.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 2/day

DigitalDive Edge Cache for Cloudflare
Up in the last 7 days:11,483#52,247by Digitaldive8 months ago
Conservative Cloudflare full-page edge caching for WordPress with safe defaults.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

OptiForge Image Optimizer
Up in the last 7 days:20,162#52,286by Muhammad Jahanzaib27 days ago
Convert images to AVIF & WebP on-server with true background queue. Boost page speed and Core Web Vitals with zero monthly SaaS fees.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 3/day

StaticBolt
#52,303by Shahin Ahmed3 months ago
Convert selected WordPress pages into ultra-fast static HTML while keeping your normal WordPress workflow.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- 5.0(2)
- Downloads
- 0/day

Softminal Cache
Up in the last 7 days:9,110#52,367by Softminal7 days ago
100% free WordPress cache plugin with AI access and everything others sell as Pro: page cache, critical CSS, WebP, Redis and more. No upsells, no ads.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 24/day

Velomize
Up in the last 7 days:8,769#52,407by Octonomus1 month ago
Speed up WordPress with safe caching, CSS/JS optimization, WebP/AVIF images, Core Web Vitals audits and smooth scrolling.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Essential Performance
#52,421by Vova Zubko6 years ago
Essential Performance plugin aims to improve website loading performance.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 2/day
NextGenConvert
Up in the last 7 days:19,421#52,448by nextgenconvert2 years ago
Optimise your site with plug-and-play WebP image conversion for quicker image load times via a nextgenconvert.com subscription
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

Dr. Speed
Up in the last 7 days:19,745#52,450by Dalibor2 days ago
Debloat WordPress: unload unused CSS and JavaScript per page, dequeue with verified rules, optimize CSS/JS loading. One-click Code Unloader sync.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 11/day

Session Shredder for WooCommerce
Up in the last 7 days:16,117#52,626by Rynald0s11 months ago
Smart rule-based pruning for WooCommerce 10.3+. Enhances experimental session storage with behavior signals to remove zombie sessions and cut DB size.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

IndiaTVDNA Turbo Cache
#52,742by IndiaTVDNA | WordPress Plugins & Themes16 days ago
Cache and optimization controls for WordPress, with performance monitoring and optional CDN integrations.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
StaticWeb Deploy
Up in the last 7 days:8,560#52,792by StaticWeb.io3 days ago
Generate static sites for deployment as files or S3-compatible storage.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

Quickfire Cache and Speed Booster
Up in the last 7 days:5,716#52,808by Code Domination8 months ago
Boost website performance with page caching, HTML/CSS/JS minification, lazy loading, script deferring, and server optimization.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 2/day

Pewit AI Image Optimizer
#52,827by pewitlabs4 days ago
Smart JPEG/PNG compression with WebP/AVIF sidecars, AV1 WebM video sidecars (ffmpeg) and backup-first bulk jobs (Pro).
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 11/day

CoreSpect Site Audit & Report
Up in the last 7 days:269#53,098by ujjwalshres7 days ago
A one-click site health report for your WordPress database, performance, security, and files — exportable as HTML, PDF, JSON, CSV, or TXT.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 11/day
CoffeeCode Queue Tuning for Action Scheduler
#53,393by Coffee Code Tech3 months ago
Improve Action Scheduler throughput for high-volume WordPress and WooCommerce sites.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

Smart Site Health Monitor
Up in the last 7 days:1,447#53,419by meetupadhyay4 months ago
A complete WordPress site health dashboard — performance, security, database, plugins, SEO and more, with a live health score and one-click fixes.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Performant Transients
#53,436by Peter Wilson1 year ago
Reduce the number of database calls querying transients.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 1/day

Sasim WebP Auto Converter
#53,448by Evgenii Sasim2 months ago
Automatically convert uploaded JPEG and PNG images to WebP and serve them on the front end with zero theme integration.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

Thorakis Cache
Up in the last 7 days:17,289#53,656by thorakis1 month ago
Page caching with nothing to configure. It serves your pages from disk, keeps itself up to date, and removes itself cleanly.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

RapidPress
Up in the last 7 days:7,874#53,661by Nazim Husain7 months ago
Boost your WordPress site speed by 2x-5x with advanced optimization techniques including minification, asset management, and performance tweaks.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- 5.0(2)
- Downloads
- 0/day
mi13 сache
#53,715by mi135 months ago
A lightweight plugin for line-by-line caching of WordPress pages. Speeds up site loading by saving static copies of pages.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Checknaut
Down in the last 7 days:1,192#53,732by abcreative1 day ago
Find what's broken, unfinished or hard to use on every page, in plain English, and fix much of it in one click. Free, with Undo on every fix.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 45/day

Web Plura Diagnostics
Up in the last 7 days:13,537#53,765by Web Plura4 days ago
Check WordPress site health, email, performance, hosting, PHP, plugins, themes, and update readiness from one local dashboard.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 12/day
Omninox Site Toolkit
Up in the last 7 days:16,099#53,882by sobhitjadoun9 days ago
Modular WordPress toolkit for performance, defensive security, database hygiene, SEO diagnostics, error log analysis, and executive reporting.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 11/day

WP CSS Merge
#53,883by digitalapps2 months ago
Safely combines compatible local stylesheets into cached bundles while preserving WordPress dependency order and automatic fallbacks.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

Vibebun Cache
#53,936by Vibe Bun2 days ago
Disk page caching plus CSS/JS, font, media, and database optimization for faster load times and better Core Web Vitals.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

Ageroth Site Health
Up in the last 7 days:13,543#53,954by Andreas Gerogiakomos2 months ago
Read-only WordPress health checks and cache behavior diagnostics with live frontend validation and URL comparison.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 2/day

Loadwright
Up in the last 7 days:17,767#53,985by Muhammad Adnan Bashir3 months ago
Speed up WordPress by stopping unneeded plugins from loading on chosen pages, posts, and categories — fewer queries, lighter, faster pages.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

WooFlare
#54,324by Matt Miller17 days ago
WooFlare provides automated Cloudflare cache control for WooCommerce stores.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Wahab133 Media Maintainer
Up in the last 7 days:4,265#54,398by wahab1331 month ago
Optimize WordPress media locally with WebP/AVIF conversion, SVG tools, selective workflows, audits, ALT tools, and safe duplicate cleanup.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 3/day

Basicrum
#54,506by Basicrum5 days ago
Privacy-first Real User Monitoring with consent-controlled loading, page types, and Web Vitals.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 32/day