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.
MeloTools Image Optimizer
#71,559by melotools26 days ago
Convert and compress images to WebP and AVIF on your own server. No limits, no account, and your originals stay safe.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

SuperHertz Cache Preloader
#71,565by superhertzbiz3 months ago
High-performance cache warming companion for LiteSpeed Cache. Crawls and preloads your entire site so first-time visitors always get lightning-fast ca …
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 6/day

PageScan
Down in the last 7 days:1,240#71,573by logicfire1 month ago
Bulk performance testing with Google PageSpeed Insights: Core Web Vitals, CSV export, and score-drop email alerts for your WordPress URLs.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Super Duper Image Auto Optimizer
#71,639by Shakib R Khan3 months ago
Reduce image sizes on upload and in bulk, strip EXIF, and generate WebP/AVIF with Imagick or GD — no external APIs.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Bricksy Bits
Down in the last 7 days:21,439#71,649by Moeini1 year ago
A lightweight Bricks Builder addon that brings essential missing features — starting with a performance-friendly Query Loop Index condition.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

PageFlash
Up in the last 7 days:1,459#71,656by Aminul Islam4 months ago
Preload pages intelligently to boost site speed and enhance user experience by loading pages before users click, ensuring instant page transitions.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

Snipfire Tweaks
Down in the last 7 days:11,738#71,684by papaman1 month ago
71 tested one-click tweaks: security, a cleaner head, turn off what you don't use, maintenance mode, WooCommerce, EU VAT note, Greek shop pack.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

Flex Cache
#71,733by Flex Plugins1 month ago
File-based full-page cache with optional Redis store, purge controls, and safe bypasses.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

JZB Image Auto AVIF
Down in the last 7 days:5,338#71,805by Yephy6 months ago
Automatically optimize WordPress images to AVIF and WebP using an independent mirror cache and safe output buffering.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

Mesi Cache
Down in the last 7 days:3,142#71,820by andresmesi10 months ago
Ultra-light static HTML caching system for WordPress.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
WP Inline Cacher
Down in the last 7 days:695#71,835by ChrisBAshton5 years ago
Speed up your site for first-time visitors by inlining your resources.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

FreshCode Image Compress Lite
Down in the last 7 days:12,740#71,865by Faredul Ali10 months ago
A lightweight WordPress plugin that automatically compresses uploaded images to improve website loading speed.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

ToR Studio Agent Readiness Scanner
Down in the last 7 days:1,570#71,950by tef14 days ago
Free 80-check site audit in wp-admin: AI readiness, SEO, security, speed, and a full build fingerprint. No key needed.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 11/day
EUW Elementor Used Widgets
Up in the last 7 days:1,167#71,983by dependencyinjection5 years ago
Used Elementor Widgets plugin for WordPress
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day
UniverWP
#72,016by 7bar2 years ago
Univerwp is a plugin, as a framework, that aims to extend WordPress in various area: security, performance and additional features.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

Cachelume
Down in the last 7 days:23,577#72,084by MD. Samrat Hossen1 month ago
A powerful and lightweight caching plugin for WordPress that improves website performance through page caching and HTML/CSS/JS minification.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

Massoftind Asset Manager
Down in the last 7 days:12,572#72,142by Mass Software Solutions Pvt. Ltd.1 month ago
Analyze and safely optimize frontend CSS and JavaScript assets. Detect duplicates, unused handles, manage async/defer/delay, and roll back changes.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Checknaut
#72,146by abcreative2 days 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

zer0sh Site Health Monitor
Down in the last 7 days:5,630#72,163by zer0sh23 days ago
Ultra lightweight WordPress plugin to monitor your website's performance, health, and security.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

Devenia Speed Optimization
Down in the last 7 days:18,100#72,169by Bjorn Solstad22 days ago
100% free local diagnostics and guided optimization for oversized WordPress media.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

ImgSmaller
Down in the last 7 days:16,261#72,177by Subarnadip Pal1 month ago
Compress WordPress Media Library images through ImgSmaller with background processing, protected backups, and safe restore controls.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

Basicrum
Down in the last 7 days:10,390#72,246by Basicrum6 days ago
Privacy-first Real User Monitoring with consent-controlled loading, page types, and Web Vitals.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 12/day

fepo
#72,285by fepo12 days ago
Audit your site's performance, AI visibility (GEO), and GDPR compliance — directly in the WordPress dashboard. First audit free, no registration.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

VuloPilot
Down in the last 7 days:20,274#72,288by VuloLabs1 month ago
AI SEO, Site Health, Performance, Accessibility, WooCommerce & AI Visibility monitoring for WordPress.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 11/day

SmartLift Optimizer
#72,292by saqlainahmad1 year ago
SmartLift Optimizer is an advanced plugin to speed up your WordPress site with one-click optimization and bulk image optimization.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Checkout Speed Audit
#72,333by tvarkom3 days ago
A free WooCommerce health report from tvarkom, emailed as a PDF: speed, caching, database, checkout, and what each finding means for your sales.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 131/day

NBH Performance
Down in the last 7 days:6,085#72,361by Shofiqul15 days ago
Improve WordPress performance with page caching, CSS and JavaScript tools, image optimization, and practical controls. Free and open source.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Uruz Cache Warmer
Down in the last 7 days:1,304#72,365by brainrune4 days ago
Keeps your cache warm by visiting the URLs in your sitemap, in both the desktop and the mobile cache bucket.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

OneTap WebP Converter
Down in the last 7 days:19,705#72,368by samiattari331 month ago
Convert all existing JPG/PNG images in your Media Library to WebP with a single click, in place, with no duplicates.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

DANGO System Utilities
Down in the last 7 days:12,903#72,371by DANGO4 days ago
See which traffic really delivers orders, what shoppers search for, and harden and speed up WordPress, all from one lightweight plugin.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 6/day
CodePros Image Optimizer
Down in the last 7 days:8,776#72,393by codeprosai1 month ago
Automatically convert images to WebP, reduce file size, and improve page speed and Core Web Vitals — no setup required.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day
CartHacker Core Web Vitals Monitoring
Down in the last 7 days:9,284#72,414by CartHacker13 days ago
Monitor Core Web Vitals from real visitors in WordPress: pass or fail by Google's rules for better SEO, plus traffic stats and a free weekly report.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 6/day

QuantumCache
Down in the last 7 days:7,591#72,443by adelong015 months ago
Speeds up WordPress by caching database queries and fragments for anonymous visitors using Redis or MySQL, without storing cache data in wp_options.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

NIVA Guard
#72,564by Ali Mohajer26 days ago
See and control every outgoing connection of your plugins and themes: log with timing, block ads and notices, cache licenses, fast 404.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

SiteByter Image Optimizer
Down in the last 7 days:15,599#72,572by mnydish3 months ago
Unlimited local image compression. Bulk optimize, auto-compress on upload, backup and restore. No external API, no limits.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

Ulasaslan Site Scanner
Down in the last 7 days:22,171#72,616by ulasaslan4 months ago
AI-powered health auditor. Scans performance, SEO, images, security, and WooCommerce — explains every issue and tracks your score over time.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

NinjaWeb Smart Media Optimizer
#72,619by NinjaWeb5 months ago
Free local image optimizer. No API, credits, or CDN. Bulk optimize, WebP, backups, restore, and used-image queues.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

Digify Speed Engine
Down in the last 7 days:18,926#72,703by Marcelo Srougi1 month ago
Lightweight performance suite: converts images to WebP, eliminates bloat, defers JS, and accelerates WooCommerce checkout.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

SumitTejani Site Audit Insights
Down in the last 7 days:17,332#72,715by Sumit Tejani4 months ago
AI-powered website health, accessibility, performance, and quality intelligence platform for WordPress.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

PN Tasks Manager
Down in the last 7 days:2,017#72,722by Félix Martínez2 months ago
Manage your tasks and time tracking with this plugin. Create tasks, assign them to users, and track the time spent on each task.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

NaveenCodes Core Web Vitals
#72,758by Naveen Goyal4 months ago
Measure LCP, CLS, INP, FCP and TTFB from real visitors. 13 optimizer fixes, database cleaner, script manager and conflict detector.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 2/day
CacheBoost Warmer
Down in the last 7 days:22,216#72,759by nhodin4 days ago
Re-warms your pages automatically after every cache purge, from the regions your visitors are in. Works with WP Rocket, LiteSpeed and any CDN.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

SmartSite Optimizer
#72,778by devkamran11 months ago
A comprehensive all-in-one performance and user experience optimization solution for WordPress.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
TinySharp Performance Diagnostics
Down in the last 7 days:4,710#72,782by TinySharp2 months ago
Find what is slowing down WordPress with local, evidence-based performance diagnostics.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

Digipacket Site Audit
Down in the last 7 days:9,395#72,894by Digipacket8 days ago
Check your site's security, speed, SEO and maintenance with 56 checks, a score out of 100, and plain-language explanations.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 46/day

NaveenCodes Speed Analyzer
Down in the last 7 days:22,226#72,938by Naveen Goyal4 months ago
Identify WordPress bottlenecks — slow admin pages, heavy autoloads, stuck cron jobs — and fix them with one click from wp-admin.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

Tilltrace for WooCommerce
#73,040by tilltrace2 months ago
Find what's slowing your WooCommerce checkout, cart, and product pages — real-user performance monitoring with plugin, script, and hook attribution.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

Provelopers Cache Manager
#73,044by Provelopers7 months ago
Flush WAF, server, and WordPress caches from one dashboard. Supports GoDaddy, Sucuri, WP Rocket, W3TC, and LiteSpeed.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Progressive Images
#73,047by jacobarriola9 years ago
Load post thumbnail after page has loaded.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

CCMS Commerce Controls for WooCommerce
#73,108by Complete Content Management Services™1 month ago
Decimal and min/max quantities, checkout field editor, guest registration, login controls, My Account editor and performance cleanup in one plugin.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day