Best performance plugins for WordPress
1,121 plugins tagged “performance” on WordPress.org, in its popular order and updated daily. Research this niche or see all plugins.

Web Plura Diagnostics
#67,381by Web Plura5 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

EPIC Conditional Assets Loader
Down in the last 7 days:13,030#67,405by workwithepicode2 months ago
Optimize your site performance by conditionally loading or unloading CSS and JavaScript assets only where they are needed.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day

Kashida Image Optimizer
Down in the last 7 days:6,133#67,409by Mrwan B. elGobee29 days ago
Lightweight WordPress image optimization with WebP and AVIF, while preserving original JPG, JPEG and PNG files.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

Decoded Site Diagnostics
#67,427by decodedbrand1 month ago
Understand your WordPress health, performance, security and WP-Cron status with clear, actionable explanations.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

Webmatik
Down in the last 7 days:1,792#67,504by THE BELOV5 months ago
Run AI-powered website audits directly from your WordPress dashboard. Get a Growth Score and prioritized action plan.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Strela Page Cache
Up in the last 7 days:5,191#67,522by hadzhiev1 month ago
Stores anonymous public pages and serves them from a local file cache.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

DigitalDot Caché Manager for Redis
#67,548by digitalDot Servicios Informáticos3 months ago
Object cache management for WordPress sites using Redis as a supported cache backend. Enable, disable, monitor, and control cache exclusions.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

MachStyle
Up in the last 7 days:4,201#67,553by Utsav Ladani5 months ago
MachStyle helps your pages feel faster by loading critical styles first and delaying selected non-critical CSS.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
ElixApps Site Health Auditor
#67,554by Elix Apps2 months ago
Privacy-focused WordPress site health and quality audit with actionable scores and historical health tracking.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

Page Speed Script Optimizer
Up in the last 7 days:121#67,567by WP Craftbench1 year ago
Speed up WordPress and improve Core Web Vitals by conditionally loading plugins. Disable heavy plugins on specific pages.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- 5.0(3)
- Downloads
- 0/day

NiroCache
Down in the last 7 days:733#67,568by NiroSuite1 month ago
Choose a performance preset and NiroCache handles the rest: static HTML page cache, smart purging, preloading and safe optimization.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Detech Cache
#67,681by detech2 years ago
A simple caching plugin to improve WordPress performance by caching HTML pages.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Angry Bloat Cleaner for WooCommerce
Up in the last 7 days:768#67,810by Nikiforos Bafas29 days ago
Safe, reversible toggles that switch off the WooCommerce scripts, admin extras and background jobs your store doesn't need.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
SpeeSeek
Up in the last 7 days:5,200#67,813by danialpg22 days ago
Slow site or slow wp-admin? Find the cause — autoload bloat, heavy plugins, database weight, a cache that isn't working — and a ranked fix plan.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day

Tendforge Widget Auditor for Elementor
Down in the last 7 days:9,314#67,820by tendforge3 months ago
See the real CSS/JS kilobytes each unused Elementor addon still loads on every page — measured from a live render — so removal actually pays off.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Block Styles
Down in the last 7 days:3,798#67,843by Joost de Valk6 years ago
Change the way styles for blocks get loaded, optimize your site's performance and sustainability!
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

powerwaf.com
#67,901by powerwaf3 years ago
Accelerate and protect your website to the maximum with PowerWAF CDN. With this plugin you can keep dynamic content updated at the edge to increase de …
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

Fixora Heartbeat Manager
#67,965by Fixora Labs1 month ago
Manage WordPress Heartbeat frequency in admin, editor, and frontend to reduce admin-ajax CPU load.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

Heleco Media WebP Converter
Down in the last 7 days:5,299#68,012by Antonio Gallo1 year ago
Automatically convert uploaded images to WebP format for faster page loading and better performance. Simple, lightweight, and efficient.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

Holographic Extreme Cache
Down in the last 7 days:9,234#68,233by Holographic4 months ago
Simple yet powerful static page caching with smart clearing, safe exclusions, preload and diagnostics.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

BytCrush Image Compression
Down in the last 7 days:17,864#68,306by Warcal15 days ago
Optimize every image in your Media Library in one click. Originals are always kept safe, and WebP/AVIF versions are served automatically.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 6/day
MetrixWire APM
Down in the last 7 days:3,424#68,311by platkadigital29 days ago
Zero-config APM for WordPress — one click to start, then trace every request and read the results without leaving wp-admin.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

wpBara Audit
#68,332by wpbara1 month ago
One-click site audit: detect issues and download a full technical report with wpBara Audit.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

A. Smith Health Monitor
Up in the last 7 days:2,982#68,436by asmithmedia2 months ago
Detect plugin conflicts, measure performance impact, and get actionable health scores for every active plugin on your WordPress site.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

Heartbeat Manager
Down in the last 7 days:15,655#68,501by sonofgod8013 days ago
Stop high CPU spikes and fix admin-ajax.php slowdowns. Granularly control WordPress Heartbeat frequency to boost backend speed and save hosting costs.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 6/day

SpeedPress for WooCommerce
#68,531by Md Laju Miah1 month ago
Modular WooCommerce addons with a SaaS-style admin. Turn each feature on with a toggle.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

Mester SEO
Down in the last 7 days:5,332#68,724by mohammad.nadr2 months ago
Client plugin to connect your site to the Mester SEO central engine for SEO and performance analysis.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Coyomi
#68,762by Pifto Works22 days ago
An archive calendar widget that adds no database queries to your pages.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

Autorender
#68,775by autorender2 months ago
Connects your WordPress site to the Autorender CDN for instant, automatic optimization of all your images and media.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

Turbo SPA for Elementor
#68,800by Mohamed Amjad16 days ago
SPA-style navigation for Elementor sites. Only the main content changes; header and footer stay in place.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

JRMora JSON Search
#68,886by JRMora2 months ago
Replaces heavy MySQL search queries with a static JSON index file for instantaneous, ultra-fast search responses.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

GlobeSign Speed Optimization
Down in the last 7 days:3,953#69,059by globesigntoday
Page cache, minification, JS defer & delay, lazy loading and database cleanup, built to never break your site.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 20/day

Hakeemify Debloater
Down in the last 7 days:7,065#69,095by hakeemify1 month ago
Scan, fix and undo site bloat: audits your site against the facts, applies only what you approve, with a recovery point and automatic rollback.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

Woptily
Up in the last 7 days:1,690#69,098by J42 months ago
An all-in-one modular WordPress optimization toolkit for performance, security, backups, and site health.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

Watchlog RUM
Up in the last 7 days:1,691#69,102by watchlog10 months ago
Real User Monitoring (RUM) for WordPress powered by Watchlog.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

365i Performance Optimizer
Up in the last 7 days:1,690#69,114by Mark McNeece of 365i5 months ago
Speed up WordPress with speculation rules, script deferral, local Google Fonts, database cleanup, and WooCommerce optimization. Elementor-safe.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day

Milyutin Cache Optimizer (Lite)
Down in the last 7 days:13,083#69,169by Milyutin Konstantin16 days ago
A lightweight, fast, and safe WordPress performance plugin. Includes page caching, HTML minification, Lazy Load, and WebP conversion.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 4/day

VaryCache
Up in the last 7 days:1,688#69,187by gkap18610 months ago
Advanced caching with A/B testing, geo-targeting, and speed optimizations. Serve different cached versions of pages.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

BlockGlow
#69,227by Mary Rose Elbambo22 days ago
Enhance, optimize, and protect your WordPress website with block-level CSS customization, performance tools, and security features.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
WMS HealthScan
#69,244by wmsplugins1 month ago
Privacy-first WordPress site health checks for core, plugins, themes, PHP, security, database, media, links, backups, and performance.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

Queue Ajax Calls Performantly
Up in the last 7 days:3,673#69,292by eddr1 month ago
Provides a way to queue selected Ajax and REST calls in a considerably more performantly via an MU plugin. Allows processing these calls as a batch.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 11/day
Mudrava RUM
#69,389by MUDRAVA8 days ago
Real User Monitoring (RUM) plugin for WordPress that tracks TTFB, LCP, server generation time, and other performance metrics from real visitors.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
supervisor.com
#69,399by supervisorcom4 years ago
supervisor.com load testing and monitoring plugin for WordPress.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

Block Weight Inspector
#69,487by devmarvs9 months ago
See which blocks load which CSS/JS assets on a page and estimate their weight.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

uMOVA Smooth Lessons
#69,505by 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

Checkout Profiler for WooCommerce
Up in the last 7 days:1,792#69,507by con3 months ago
Wondering whether your WooCommerce checkout is slow? This plugin will tell you.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

MeetLet Amazing Performance Boost
Down in the last 7 days:15,323#69,550by MeetLet3 months ago
Monitor and control outgoing HTTP requests, reduce admin bloat, and improve site speed on networks with limited international connectivity.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
PixGlory
Down in the last 7 days:18,911#69,554by pixglory2 months ago
Offload your media library, both new uploads and your existing files, to PixGlory's global CDN and serve it from there, with no theme changes.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

Script Report
#69,622by sapayth7 months ago
Debug and audit JavaScript and CSS loading in WordPress. Analyze dependencies, detect issues, and improve performance on any page.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
CoffeeCode Queue Tuning for Action Scheduler
#69,655by Coffee Code Tech3 months ago
Improve Action Scheduler throughput for high-volume WordPress and WooCommerce sites.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day