Best performance plugins for WordPress

Site Speed Test

Down in the last 7 days:35#12,630

by Sabrina Zeidan2 years ago

Tracks Core Web Vitals for you. Every single day, for free.

The Off Switch (formerly WP Avoid Slow)

Up in the last 7 days:62#12,797

by Abhishek Deshpande15 days ago

Disable unused WordPress features and remove bloat. 120 switches for performance, security and WooCommerce — pure PHP, no .htaccess, no upsell.

Footprint

Up in the last 7 days:62#12,870

by ByUs5 days ago

Find which plugins and theme slow down your site. Real per-component measurements on your own server, plus an optional community A-E score.

Specify a Vary

Up in the last 7 days:34#12,924

by lithiumsixteen8 years ago

This plugin fixes a "Vary: Accept-Encoding Header" message and boosts website performance.

Better Resource Hints

Up in the last 7 days:17#12,985

by Alex MacArthur7 years ago

Better Resource Hints will make your WordPress site or application faster and generally more performant by intelligently leveraging resource hints lik …

Auto WebP Converter & Logger

Up in the last 7 days:67#13,255

by BabaPinnak11 months ago

Boost site speed by automatically converting uploads to WebP. Features smart memory protection, detailed logging, and zero API dependencies.

Fleet Agent Site Manager

Up in the last 7 days:195#13,273

by Mosamlife7 days ago

Securely connects this site to a WPMgr dashboard, self-hosted or hosted, so backups, updates, security and speed all run from one screen.

Lazy SEO

Up in the last 7 days:88#13,597

by Danny Morris12 years ago

The Lazy SEO plugin will help automatically optimize a site for SEO best practices using a specific set of SEO keywords and locations.

****** cos-html-cache ******

Down in the last 7 days:27#13,758

by storyday14 years ago

cos-html-cache is an extremely efficient WordPress page caching plugin designed to make your WordPress site much faster and more responsive.

GenTime

Down in the last 7 days:40#13,768

by Sybre Waaijer11 months ago

GenTime accurately shows the page generation time in your WordPress admin bar.

Admin Optimizer

Down in the last 7 days:798#13,941

by yipresser11 days ago

WordPress optimization plugin and all-in-one toolkit for performance, security, SEO, content, media, users, and site management.

SitePulse

Up in the last 7 days:115#14,177

by Nilbug1 day ago

Find and fix what slows your WordPress site. Real-time performance monitoring, plugin profiling, and external request tracking.

WP Basic Elements

Up in the last 7 days:71#14,256

by DamirCalusic5 months ago

Disable unnecessary WordPress features, clean up your markup, and simplify the admin. Everything is opt-in — nothing changes until you say so.

Fast Backend

Up in the last 7 days:27#14,292

by WDM11 months ago

Tired of having a slow WordPress admin area? Improve your speed with "Fast Backend" - the lightweight solution for optimizing the WordPress backend.

Voce Cached Nav

Down in the last 7 days:435#14,331

by Kevin Langley Jr.11 years ago

Serve cached copies of WordPress navigation menus

Zamok

Up in the last 7 days:28#14,592

by Naiche1 month ago

Debloat, harden, optimize, and back up WordPress — one lean, free, open-source plugin. No tracking, no telemetry, no paid tier.

Static Porter

Up in the last 7 days:281#14,610

by Kayıhan Turgutoğlu18 days ago

Convert WordPress to blazing-fast static HTML. Deploy to Cloudflare, AWS S3 + CloudFront, or download as ZIP. Safe for shared hosting.

WP Optimizer

Up in the last 7 days:168#14,618

by sh1zen19 days ago

Improve WordPress speed and Core Web Vitals with page cache, WebP, minification, database cleanup and built-in performance diagnostics.

Gator Cache

Down in the last 7 days:27#14,631

by GatorDog7 years ago

A better, stronger, faster page cache for WordPress. Performance that's easy to manage.

Supervisor

Down in the last 7 days:122#14,663

by Tiago Hillebrandt1 year ago

Supervisor is a powerful plugin designed to enhance both the performance and security of your WordPress installation.

Cacheability

Up in the last 7 days:48#14,680

by Danila Vershinin1 month ago

HTTP optimization for WordPress. Fixes soft 404 errors and adds smart cache headers.

Soovex WebP Converter

Down in the last 7 days:76#14,683

by Soovex IT Agency3 months ago

Convert WordPress images to WebP automatically. Optimize page speed, boost SEO, and reduce bandwidth with unlimited conversions and smart backups.

Webreact integration for SpinupWP and Cloudflare

Up in the last 7 days:9#14,684

by webreact2 months ago

Integrates SpinupWP with Cloudflare for automatic cache purging using API tokens or API keys.

AIO Tools (All in One Tools)

Down in the last 7 days:168#14,696

by Shost.vn2 days ago

Bộ công cụ All-in-One chuẩn doanh nghiệp giúp bảo mật đa lớp, tăng tốc độ tải trang, tối ưu SEO, SMTP và bứt phá doanh số WooCommerce.

Conditionally Load CF7

Up in the last 7 days:88#14,814

by Chris J. Zähller1 month ago

Load Contact Form 7 & select CF7-related plugin scripts & styles only where needed.

Lite Cache

Down in the last 7 days:33#14,828

by Stefano Lissa12 years ago

The smallest cache plugin ever released (but still greatly efficient).

Pressidium Performance

Up in the last 7 days:108#14,834

by pressidium17 days ago

Speed up your WordPress site, improve Core Web Vitals and enhance user experience with one-click image optimization, CSS & JavaScript minification.

SpeedyGo

Up in the last 7 days:154#14,861

by Code and core26 days ago

Optimize your WordPress site with advanced caching, minification, and performance tools for faster loading.

MariaDB Health Checks

Down in the last 7 days:240#15,004

by Andrew Hutchings3 years ago

MariaDB Health Checks helps you debug your MariaDB database with advanced information from your database.

ABCode Cache Warmer

Up in the last 7 days:1,096#15,074

by Ash Brentnall | ABCode2 months ago

Automatic cache warmer and preloader: rebuilds your page cache after every purge, in parallel, and shows exactly which URLs were cached.

Toast Mobile Menu

Up in the last 7 days:145#15,233

by Toast Plugins1 month ago

The Fastest Lightweight Mobile Menu for WordPress (No Bloat, Instant Setup)

Flush Transients

Up in the last 7 days:216#15,508

by Felix Arntz2 months ago

This plugin allows you to flush WordPress transients, plain and simple.

Remove Cookies From Static Resources

Down in the last 7 days:52#15,771

by Jose Mortellaro1 month ago

It removes cookies from the requests to static resources for the modern browsers.

Asta HTML Minifier

Down in the last 7 days:151#16,058

by Lior Asta10 months ago

Minify your HTML will remove and trim away all white space and HTML comments in your HTML. This will reduce requests size for all pages and improve yo …

iLoveIMG

Up in the last 7 days:125#16,064

by iLovePDF6 months ago

Optimize your website images and improve your page load speed. Reduce the size of your photos and gain maximum compression while keeping sharp images.

Purge Cloud Flare

Down in the last 7 days:75#16,260

by webrangers9 years ago

Purge CloudFlare makes clearing CloudFlare cache as simple as one click.

Gcore CDN

Down in the last 7 days:67#16,922

by gcorewpress3 years ago

Gcore Plugin

BoltAudit

Up in the last 7 days:92#16,960

by BetterDots1 month ago

A free read-only speed audit that names the exact plugin, query or asset slowing your WordPress site down, and the steps to resolve it.

ECU Remapping Performance Calculator

Up in the last 7 days:124#16,972

by Arrow Design1 month ago

Estimate ECU remapping power and torque gains by vehicle type, manufacturer, model, year and engine.

Feather

Down in the last 7 days:290#17,120

by feather1 month ago

Strip unused Elementor assets per page, measure page weight, and clean your database from one dashboard.

Website Carbon

Up in the last 7 days:104#17,141

by beleaf3 years ago

Every web page view generates carbon emissions. The website carbon plugin monitors your site and lets you know what the emissions are.

Smart Image Loader

Down in the last 7 days:48#17,181

by bypr.nils8 years ago

Smart Image Loader is a fire-and-forget priority and lazy loader for image sources. Can be a huge performance boost especially for one pagers.

Editor Cleanup For Oxygen

Down in the last 7 days:154#17,188

by Jose Mortellaro1 month ago

FDP add-on to cleanup Oxygen in the backend. Your Oxygen backend will be faster and without conflicts with other plugins.

Warmer

Up in the last 7 days:721#17,197

by Atakan Oz5 months ago

Warm your WordPress cache with scheduled crawling, cache preloading, URL source control, logs, diagnostics, and WP-CLI.

Lazy Embed

#17,198

by beleaf2 years ago

Improves the performance and reduces the emissions of your website by only loading embeds (youtube, vimeo, etc) when they are clicked.

Redis Page Cache

Down in the last 7 days:27#17,297

by Pressjitsu6 years ago

A Redis-backed full page caching plugin for WordPress, extremely flexible and fast.

Serve Static

Down in the last 7 days:80#17,348

by Rajin Sharwar1 year ago

Serve Static is a static HTML page generator WordPress plugin to create and serve static copies of your existing web pages to avoid PHP/DB load.

Commerza for WooCommerce

Down in the last 7 days:23#17,368

by Dmitry Kokorin8 months ago

Detect performance bottlenecks in WooCommerce stores and monitor checkout, cart, and order timing metrics. All data is stored locally on your site.

LocalFonts

Down in the last 7 days:383#17,513

by Browse.FYI6 months ago

Self-host Google Fonts for faster load times, GDPR/DSGVO compliance, and visitor privacy. Zero configuration required.

Tribe Object Cache

Down in the last 7 days:62#17,563

by Modern Tribe, Inc.14 years ago

Quickly and easily add object cache support that works across environments. All you have to do is activate the plugin and your install will immediatel …