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.

xSpeed Cache
Up in the last 7 days:52#1,654by WPDeveloper1 day ago
A complete WordPress caching plugin: page cache, object cache, CDN, database cleanup and Core Web Vitals optimization, plus a built-in MCP server.
- Installs
- 10K+
- Rating
- 5.0(24)
- Downloads
- 1.1K/day
Instant Back/Forward
Down in the last 7 days:7#1,675by Weston Ruter1 month ago
Enables back/forward cache (bfcache) for instant history navigations even when “nocache” headers are sent, such as when a user is logged in.
- Installs
- 10K+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 115/day
Disable Bloat for WordPress & WooCommerce
Down in the last 7 days:6#1,682by Rock Solid2 days ago
Speed up WooCommerce and WordPress. Disable WooCommerce Admin, Analytics, Marketing Hub, cart fragments, Gutenberg and other bloat you don't use.
- Installs
- 10K+
- Rating
- 4.8(100)
- Downloads
- 585/day

Delete Duplicate Posts
Up in the last 7 days:9#1,765by Lars Koudal1 month ago
Get rid of duplicate posts and pages (any post type) on your blog with manual or automatic modes.
- Installs
- 10K+
- Rating
- 4.8(153)
- Downloads
- 113/day

WP Performance Score Booster
Up in the last 7 days:6#1,792by 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
Plugin Check (PCP)
Up in the last 7 days:8#1,848by WordPress.org3 days ago
Plugin Check is a WordPress.org tool which provides checks to help plugins meet the directory requirements and follow various best practices.
- Installs
- 10K+
- Rating
- 4.5(36)
- Downloads
- 8.9K/day

Simple Like Page
Up in the last 7 days:1#1,928by topdevs.net6 months ago
Embed Meta™ Page content without slowing down your site or loading third-party scripts before user interaction.
- Installs
- 10K+
- Rating
- 4.3(24)
- Downloads
- 51/day

SQLite Object Cache
Up in the last 7 days:7#1,971by OllieJones19 days ago
A fast persistent object cache backend for the rest of us, powered by SQLite and accelerated by APCu
- Installs
- 10K+
- Rating
- 5.0(51)
- Downloads
- 452/day

Lightweight Accordion
Down in the last 7 days:5#2,006by Andy Feliciotti27 days ago
Simple accordion for adding collapse elements to pages without affecting page load time. Includes Gutenberg block and shortcode for classic editor.
- Installs
- 10K+
- Rating
- 5.0(60)
- Downloads
- 122/day
Use Google Libraries
Up in the last 7 days:2#2,045by Jason Penney9 years ago
Allows your site to use common javascript libraries from Google's AJAX Libraries CDN, rather than from WordPress's own copies.
- Installs
- 10K+
- Rating
- 4.4(47)
- Downloads
- 23/day
Embed Privacy
Up in the last 7 days:10#2,065by epiphyt2 months ago
Embed Privacy prevents the loading of embedded external content and allows your site visitors to opt-in.
- Installs
- 10K+
- Rating
- 4.9(26)
- Downloads
- 93/day

ezCache
Down in the last 7 days:2#2,096by uPresstoday
Lightning-fast WordPress optimization — page caching, Redis Object Cache, Critical CSS, WebP images, CSS/JS optimization, and 15+ performance tools.
- Installs
- 10K+
- Rating
- 4.6(5)
- Downloads
- 55/day

Featherweight
Up in the last 7 days:2#2,104by jody nesbitt4 months ago
Speed up WordPress by disabling unused features — emojis, embeds, query strings, XML-RPC, RSS and more — for fewer requests and faster pages.
- Installs
- 10K+
- Rating
- 4.1(45)
- Downloads
- 49/day
AAA Autoload Optimizer
Up in the last 7 days:5#2,226by Progress Planner7 days ago
Find and fix bloated autoloaded options slowing down your WordPress database
- Installs
- 9K+
- Rating
- 4.6(25)
- Downloads
- 322/day

WP Compress
Down in the last 7 days:13#2,232by AresIT7 days ago
Everything you need for a faster website – smart optimization, advanced caching, adaptive images, WebP creation, script improvements, optional CDN del …
- Installs
- 9K+
- Rating
- 4.5(155)
- Downloads
- 877/day
Lazy Load for Videos
Down in the last 7 days:3#2,242by kevinweber15 days ago
Boost page speed by replacing embedded YouTube and Vimeo videos with a clickable preview image. Video scripts only load on click.
- Installs
- 9K+
- Rating
- 4.4(105)
- Downloads
- 179/day

Cachify
Down in the last 7 days:1#2,289by 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

Lazy Loader
Down in the last 7 days:5#2,305by Florian Brinkmann2 years ago
Lazy loading plugin that supports images, iFrames, video and audio elements and uses the lightweight lazysizes script. With manual modification of the …
- Installs
- 8K+
- Rating
- 4.7(49)
- Downloads
- 42/day

QuickWebP
Up in the last 7 days:6#2,356by Ludwig You2 days ago
QuickWebP converts JPG and PNG to WebP, compresses images locally, improves image SEO, and adds AVIF with QuickWebP Pro.
- Installs
- 8K+
- Rating
- 4.8(20)
- Downloads
- 88/day

Freesoul Deactivate Plugins
Down in the last 7 days:5#2,361by Jose Mortellaro12 days ago
Load plugins only where you need them. No bloat, no conflicts, more speed. Deactivate plugins where they don't add anything useful.
- Installs
- 8K+
- Rating
- 4.8(104)
- Downloads
- 103/day

ElasticPress
Up in the last 7 days:5#2,378by 10up2 months ago
A fast and flexible search and query engine for WordPress.
- Installs
- 8K+
- Rating
- 4.2(30)
- Downloads
- 736/day

Code Profiler
Up in the last 7 days:3#2,433by bruandet1 month ago
A profiler to measure the performance of your WordPress plugins and themes.
- Installs
- 8K+
- Rating
- 4.3(36)
- Downloads
- 162/day

Plugin Load Filter
Down in the last 7 days:2#2,505by enomoto celtislab6 months ago
Dynamically activate the selected plugins for each page. Response will be faster by filtering plugins.
- Installs
- 7K+
- Rating
- 4.8(52)
- Downloads
- 46/day

Hyper Cache
Down in the last 7 days:10#2,514by Stefano Lissa9 months ago
Hyper Cache is a performant and easy to configure cache system for WordPress.
- Installs
- 7K+
- Rating
- 4.5(82)
- Downloads
- 37/day
Scripts To Footer
Down in the last 7 days:10#2,588by Joshua David Nelson7 days ago
Move your scripts to the footer to help speed up perceived page load times and improve user experience.
- Installs
- 7K+
- Rating
- 4.7(37)
- Downloads
- 72/day
SNS Count Cache
Down in the last 7 days:6#2,591by marubon7 years ago
This plugin gets and caches SNS counts in the background, and help you to shorten page loading time through the use of cache mechanism.
- Installs
- 7K+
- Rating
- 4.0(4)
- Downloads
- 22/day

Clear All Cache for WP Super Cache
Up in the last 7 days:1#2,797by apasionados9 months ago
Clear all cache for WP Super Cache adds a menu entry to the admin menu to clear the cache completely .
- Installs
- 6K+
- Rating
- 3.1(11)
- Downloads
- 31/day

Swift Performance Lite
Down in the last 7 days:3#2,838by swte5 days ago
Swift Performance is a cache and performance booster plugin. It can speed up your site, improve SEO scores and user experience.
- Installs
- 6K+
- Rating
- 3.6(125)
- Downloads
- 126/day

WPGraphQL Smart Cache
Down in the last 7 days:7#2,953by Jason Bahl3 days ago
WPGraphQL Smart Cache is a WordPress plugin that provides fast, accurate API responses by intelligently caching and invalidating WPGraphQL queries.
- Installs
- 5K+
- Rating
- 5.0(4)
- Downloads
- 381/day
Plugin Detective
Down in the last 7 days:10#3,121by NSquared6 days ago
Quickly find and fix WordPress plugin conflicts, recover from fatal errors, and clear stuck maintenance mode without any coding.
- Installs
- 5K+
- Rating
- 4.0(49)
- Downloads
- 118/day

Surge
Up in the last 7 days:36#3,181by Konstantin Kovshenin6 months ago
Surge is a very simple and fast page caching plugin for WordPress.
- Installs
- 5K+
- Rating
- 4.9(31)
- Downloads
- 45/day
PageSpeed Ninja
Down in the last 7 days:4#3,188by PageSpeed2 years ago
Boost page speed: cache, compress, optimize images to WebP, minify CSS/JS, defer loading, lazy load, generate critical CSS, improve Core Web Vitals
- Installs
- 5K+
- Rating
- 4.5(114)
- Downloads
- 36/day

Cloudinary
Down in the last 7 days:2#3,215by Cloudinary1 month ago
Boost the performance of your WordPress site by optimizing your images and videos with the Cloudinary WordPress Plugin. WordPress developers, content …
- Installs
- 5K+
- Rating
- 4.0(64)
- Downloads
- 175/day

RunCache
Down in the last 7 days:7#3,278by RunCloud21 days ago
The free WordPress caching plugin: server-level full page cache on NGINX, Apache or LiteSpeed, plus Redis object cache and Cloudflare.
- Installs
- 4K+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 56/day
Solid Performance
Up in the last 7 days:1#3,310by Nexcess25 days ago
Solid Performance is a no-code solution for increasing the page performance of your WordPress website.
- Installs
- 4K+
- Rating
- 4.3(3)
- Downloads
- 74/day

FlyWP Helper
Up in the last 7 days:8#3,335by FlyWP3 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
#3,357by codealfa21 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
- 37/day

BerqWP
Up in the last 7 days:22#3,363by BerqWP4 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
- 86/day

FastPixel Cache
Down in the last 7 days:12#3,382by ShortPixel4 days ago
Optimize Core Web Vitals and PageSpeed with advanced caching, image compression, lazy loading, critical CSS, and CDN – the ultimate performance tool.
- Installs
- 4K+
- Rating
- 4.8(50)
- Downloads
- 191/day

Hosting Benchmark tool
Down in the last 7 days:19#3,551by Anton Aleksandrov2 months ago
Benchmark your hosting server CPU, memory and disk, compare with others using simple Wordpress plugin.
- Installs
- 4K+
- Rating
- 4.7(33)
- Downloads
- 48/day
WP Hyper Response
Down in the last 7 days:18#3,624by Stocker_jp9 years ago
This plugin improves the response of WordPress. WordPressサイト及び管理画面のレスポンスを向上させるプラグインです。
- Installs
- 3K+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 11/day
atec Cache APCu
Down in the last 7 days:4#3,631by docjojo4 months ago
Super fast APCu-based Object Cache and the only APCu-powered Page Cache plugin for WordPress.
- Installs
- 3K+
- Rating
- 4.9(21)
- Downloads
- 34/day

Static 404
Down in the last 7 days:45#3,746by Brad Parbs5 years ago
A WordPress plugin to quickly send a 404 for missing static files.
- Installs
- 3K+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 11/day

Image Optimizer by 10web
Down in the last 7 days:15#3,828by 10Web2 years ago
Image Optimizer by 10Web optimizes and preserves image quality. Improve your website speed, bounce rate, and SEO with Image Optimizer.
- Installs
- 3K+
- Rating
- 4.5(54)
- Downloads
- 21/day

WP Plugin Manager
Down in the last 7 days:6#3,869by HasThemes6 days ago
WP Plugin Manager lets you disable plugins on specific pages and posts so they only load where needed. No code required.
- Installs
- 3K+
- Rating
- 4.4(23)
- Downloads
- 70/day

Lazy Load Control For Elementor
Down in the last 7 days:13#3,878by Jose Mortellaro1 month ago
Remove the Lazy Load attribute from specific images in Elementor.
- Installs
- 3K+
- Rating
- 4.9(15)
- Downloads
- 19/day
Powered Cache
Up in the last 7 days:2#3,895by poweredcache3 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
- 129/day
Disqus Conditional Load
Down in the last 7 days:9#3,963by Joel James1 month ago
Use Disqus comments with advanced features like lazy load, shortcode, widgets etc. Don't let Disqus to slow your site down.
- Installs
- 3K+
- Rating
- 4.5(64)
- Downloads
- 35/day

WP Remove Query Strings From Static Resources
Down in the last 7 days:12#4,019by Rinku Y4 months ago
Boost your WordPress site speed by removing query strings from CSS and JS files — improve your GTmetrix, PageSpeed, and Pingdom scores instantly.
- Installs
- 3K+
- Rating
- 5.0(5)
- Downloads
- 50/day
WPBase Cache
Up in the last 7 days:2#4,054by baseapp12 days ago
A wordpress plugin for using all caches on varnish, nginx, php-fpm stack with php-apc. This plugin includes db-cache-reloaded-fix for dbcache.
- Installs
- 3K+
- Rating
- 5.0(3)
- Downloads
- 171/day