Best performance plugins for WordPress

FlipWebP

#55,757

by Saad Bashir7 days ago

Convert Media Library images to WebP and reduce their file size, one at a time or in bulk.

Thorakis Cache

Up in the last 7 days:16,252#55,767

by thorakis1 month ago

Page caching with nothing to configure. It serves your pages from disk, keeps itself up to date, and removes itself cleanly.

SCP Dynamics ESI Bridge

Up in the last 7 days:5,137#55,774

by Stelios Chatzis2 months ago

Keep supported JetFormBuilder booking forms live through LiteSpeed ESI while the parent page remains cached.

FFAS Cache Manager

#55,775

by Fernando Fas14 days ago

Page caching, cache prewarming, browser-cache rules, and automatic invalidation for WordPress.

Mudrava RUM

#55,873

by MUDRAVA7 days ago

Real User Monitoring (RUM) plugin for WordPress that tracks TTFB, LCP, server generation time, and other performance metrics from real visitors.

Scripts and Styles Manager

Up in the last 7 days:10,703#55,884

by abdelhalimkhouas1 year ago

Easily manage the scripts and styles loaded on your WordPress pages to improve performance by toggling off unnecessary assets.

Site Scripts & Speed Manager

Down in the last 7 days:5,946#55,904

by ThinkAboveAI7 months ago

See every JavaScript file on your WordPress site. Control how each one loads. Speed up your pages without breaking anything.

nnax Web Essentials

Up in the last 7 days:7,966#55,928

by nnaxitloesungen17 days ago

nnax Web Essentials is the free host plugin for shared administration, security, and base features of nnax Web.

LM Page Assets Control

#55,936

by LM Designers5 months ago

Block specific CSS and JS files from loading on pages where they are not needed. Improve page speed by preventing unnecessary assets from loading.

E-CORP ALL IN ONE

Up in the last 7 days:10,125#55,963

by ecorpagency2 months ago

Internal linking, a page cache and SEO in a single plugin. Each module is enabled separately. French interface.

WM Secure and Optimize

Up in the last 7 days:2,896#56,000

by Selvakumaran Krishnan3 years ago

One place for site security and site performance. Secure and optimize your site to perform better. WM Secure and Optimize

Manly No Emojis

Down in the last 7 days:962#56,103

by DimitriAus2 months ago

Disables the emoji functionality in WordPress to improve performance.

KlyroAudit

#56,104

by Kirtikumar Solanki3 days ago

Diagnose WordPress site health with checks for performance, SEO, security, WordPress configuration, database health, broken links, and accessibility.

NT Image WebP & AVIF Converter

#56,158

by nurullah20063 months ago

Convert JPEG/PNG images to WebP with bulk and automatic conversion tools, plus logs and stats.

Script Surgery

Up in the last 7 days:16,300#56,215

by vexr5 months ago

See exactly what scripts and styles load on each page type — which plugin added them, their size, whether they block rendering — and disable them per …

Builder Critical CSS Tools

Up in the last 7 days:408#56,281

by Todd W Carter9 months ago

Tools to clear builder CSS caches and manage Critical CSS workflows on builder-based themes (including Divi).

CB Site Health & Debug

#56,285

by Chris M Ybanez1 month ago

A developer debug bar plus a plain-English site performance report, with one-click cleanup, trend history, and an optional weekly email digest.

Ostheimer Performance

Up in the last 7 days:16,509#56,289

by Andreas Ostheimer20 days ago

A small free HTML page cache with careful defaults and a clear WordPress interface.

LoadGate Forge

Down in the last 7 days:3,958#56,327

by Gunjan Jaswal12 days ago

Stop selected plugins from loading on chosen front-end URLs. Lighter pages, reversible, and admin, login and REST are never touched.

Better Website Performance

#56,413

by thingsym5 months ago

The Better Website Performance plugin adds advanced features to improve website performance.

AutoLoad Forge

Up in the last 7 days:6,724#56,531

by Gunjan Jaswal12 days ago

See what is bloating your autoloaded options, trace each one to a likely plugin, and switch autoload off reversibly.

Woptily

Down in the last 7 days:7,421#56,634

by J42 months ago

An all-in-one modular WordPress optimization toolkit for performance, security, backups, and site health.

Watchlog RUM

#56,638

by watchlog10 months ago

Real User Monitoring (RUM) for WordPress powered by Watchlog.

365i Performance Optimizer

#56,648

by Mark McNeece of 365i5 months ago

Speed up WordPress with speculation rules, script deferral, local Google Fonts, database cleanup, and WooCommerce optimization. Elementor-safe.

WMS HealthScan

#56,659

by wmsplugins1 month ago

Privacy-first WordPress site health checks for core, plugins, themes, PHP, security, database, media, links, backups, and performance.

VaryCache

#56,719

by gkap18610 months ago

Advanced caching with A/B testing, geo-targeting, and speed optimizations. Serve different cached versions of pages.

NCB Diagnosis

Down in the last 7 days:2,140#56,775

by 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.

SpeedPage

Down in the last 7 days:2,132#56,860

by speedpage14 days ago

Boost your website speed and Core Web Vitals with advanced caching, optimization, and performance enhancements.

Sciova

Down in the last 7 days:2,131#56,869

by g26digital4 months ago

CrUX-first WordPress performance plugin. Monitor Core Web Vitals with real field data and lab diagnostics via PageSpeed Insights — admin-only.

NIVA Guard

Down in the last 7 days:4,469#56,905

by Ali Mohajer25 days ago

See and control every outgoing connection of your plugins and themes: log with timing, block ads and notices, cache licenses, fast 404.

Majed Mini Tools

Up in the last 7 days:13,965#56,920

by Majed Bannani2 days ago

A modular toolkit for managing practical WordPress features from one dashboard, with translation-ready RTL support.

WeAmp Cache Control for ModPageSpeed

Down in the last 7 days:7,794#56,956

by oschaaf4 months ago

Full-page caching control panel for the ModPageSpeed server module: cache headers, purge-on-publish, per-post-type TTLs.

TinySharp Performance Diagnostics

Down in the last 7 days:1,640#56,959

by TinySharp2 months ago

Find what is slowing down WordPress with local, evidence-based performance diagnostics.

Revision Retention

Up in the last 7 days:5,442#56,986

by Acato5 days ago

Keep the newest revisions of every post and drop the ones older than a threshold you set. Per post type, on a schedule or from WP-CLI.

Content Visibility

#57,080

by sitetrail4 months ago

Analyze and improve how your content may be understood by AI search engines, answer engines, and crawlers.

WP CSS Merge

Up in the last 7 days:16,061#57,101

by digitalapps2 months ago

Safely combines compatible local stylesheets into cached bundles while preserving WordPress dependency order and automatic fallbacks.

NoDoss

Up in the last 7 days:13,717#57,115

by Edwin Bekedam2 months ago

Stop bots, pingbacks, protection againts brute force hacking, script jacking, Iframe XSS attacks, CSRF Proctection, Insecure requests,

A. Smith Speed Optimizer

Up in the last 7 days:16,102#57,118

by asmithmedia1 month ago

WordPress speed plugin. Lazy load, minify, defer JavaScript, remove bloat, clean your database. Track a 0-100 performance score. Free, no account.

Page Asset Manager

Up in the last 7 days:12,318#57,147

by Chintan Acharya3 months ago

Reorder or disable enqueued CSS and JavaScript for individual posts, pages, and public custom post types.

Performance Optimisation

#57,257

by Nilesh Kanzariya1 month ago

Free WordPress performance plugin for faster sites with page caching, Core Web Vitals monitoring, image optimization, and CSS/JS optimization.

Rudra Image Optimizer

Up in the last 7 days:15,387#57,282

by Rahul Ranjan11 months ago

Analyze, compress, and optimize images from any webpage. Supports WebP, JPEG, PNG, bulk optimization, and performance reporting.

FastLayer

#57,309

by kanhajatthap4 days ago

FastLayer speeds up WordPress with page caching, CSS/JS optimization, WebP images, lazy loading, optional ImageKit CDN and database cleanup.

Site Memory Inspector

Up in the last 7 days:12,403#57,326

by SnappaGuy5 months ago

Monitor your WordPress memory usage with a clean, lightweight dashboard.

BAAB Insights

#57,329

by ingobaab5 months ago

BAAB Insights analyzes your WordPress installation locally in the admin and helps you spot performance, database, cache, media, and SSL issues.

PicVeda Optimizer

#57,433

by Sabir5 days ago

Local-only image optimizer for WordPress and WooCommerce with Context-Aware SEO automation, smart image skipping, and automated WebP conversion.

360 Orbit Database Cleaner

#57,438

by Jörg Liwa6 days ago

Shows which options load on every page request and cleans up expired transients and old revisions, always with a preview first.

LeanVisit

Down in the last 7 days:2,000#57,455

by kamran21 month ago

Automatically serve a lighter version of your site to visitors on slow, metered or data-saver connections.

Simple Plugin Selector

Down in the last 7 days:1,127#57,456

by Lorro1 month ago

Select which plugins are activated on a page-by-page basis.

Smart Cache Purge & Warm for Cloudflare

#57,502

by Divyanshu tailor2 months ago

Targeted cache purging and controlled cache warming for WordPress sites using Cloudflare.

GSaini DB Optimizer

Down in the last 7 days:843#57,503

by ghanshyam saini1 year ago

Short Description:Optimize your WordPress database by removing revisions, spam comments, and transients for better site performance.