Best performance plugins for WordPress

Fontstay

#29,059

by wedoingood26 days ago

Finds the Google Fonts your theme and plugins load and hosts them on your own site, so visitors' browsers no longer contact Google for them.

Boring Cache Warmup Lite

Up in the last 7 days:194#29,163

by chriskubisch2 months ago

A lightweight, privacy-friendly WordPress cache warmup tool. No external services, no drama.

BlinkSpeed

Up in the last 7 days:495#29,256

by Blinkspeed4 months ago

Boost your WordPress site speed with advanced AI optimization techniques.

AttiaWebP

Up in the last 7 days:111#29,312

by ahmedattia154 months ago

Local WebP/AVIF sidecar conversion, savings statistics, media library tools, background processing, WP-CLI, and optional server-level delivery.

SpeedDoctor

#29,333

by Ekin Yalıncak1 year ago

Analyze your WordPress site speed, find bottlenecks, and get actionable SEO optimization tips with SpeedDoctor.

Zero Blocks Given

#29,419

by Marcin Dudek2 months ago

Zero Blocks Given turns off WooCommerce / WP block frontend output at the code level. Five tiers, optional settings, no paywall.

Nahnu Asset Scanner

Up in the last 7 days:44#29,449

by Jaime Alnassim2 months ago

Scan your site to inventory every JS file, CSS file, cookie & domain — for accurate cache configuration and cookie consent.

Cache Autopilot

Down in the last 7 days:205#29,460

by ekesto1 day ago

Automatically refreshes affected cached pages after WordPress changes — without manual cache clearing.

MAKcubes

#29,582

by Mohammed Kassem2 months ago

A lightweight utility plugin to clear WordPress core caches such as transients and object cache.

Cache Buddy

Down in the last 7 days:744#29,615

by Mark Jaquith11 years ago

Minimizes the situations in which logged-in users appear logged-in to WordPress, which increases the cacheability of your site.

Block External Requests

#29,752

by ingobaab6 months ago

Speed up WordPress admin by blocking slow or unwanted external HTTP requests. Manage hosts in Settings → Blocked Requests.

Lazy Loading oEmbed Iframes

#29,769

by Weston Ruter5 years ago

Add the loading=lazy attribute to iframes coming from oEmbeds in content

Magic optimize

Up in the last 7 days:211#29,771

by Mikalai Zaitsau1 year ago

Optimize images to WebP and minify CSS/HTML. Elementor-compatible performance plugin.

WebPioneer

#29,793

by Perfecto Group7 months ago

Compatibility-first WebP conversion for WordPress with upload-time conversion, bulk tools, delivery safety, and local processing.

Pload

Up in the last 7 days:3,328#29,812

by WPParsi6 days ago

Converts your images to WebP a little at a time, so even a cheap shared host can optimize a large media library without timeouts.

Encute

#29,994

by Mark Jaquith4 years ago

Fluent API for site owners to manipulate the scripts and styles on the frontend of their site.

WebDiagnosis Site Audit

#30,009

by Nicolas Blandel6 days ago

The quality control for your WordPress site. One complete audit, one report of 170+ checks, clear priorities and actionable fixes.

Selective reCAPTCHA Loader for CF7

Down in the last 7 days:312#30,075

by yasuo3o31 year ago

Load reCAPTCHA only where Contact Form 7 forms are present or on all pages as desired.

Jabali Cache

Down in the last 7 days:3,377#30,087

by apunker3 months ago

Persistent Redis object cache for WordPress. Zero-config on the Jabali panel, works without the phpredis extension, and always fails safe.

MA Smart Image Cleaner

Down in the last 7 days:118#30,111

by Moheeb Arif9 months ago

Safely find and clean unused images in your WordPress Media Library without breaking your website.

MariCDN by MariHost

Up in the last 7 days:109#30,113

by MariHost21 days ago

Serve your site's images, CSS, JavaScript and fonts from MariCDN, with a safe preview, automatic fallback and one-click purge.

AMPM Queue Manager for Action Scheduler

Down in the last 7 days:57#30,152

by Marcelo Pedra3 months ago

Manage Action Scheduler queue resources, inspect its status, run due actions, and clean old records from a focused settings panel.

Unused Shortcodes

Up in the last 7 days:724#30,530

by AMP-MODE2 years ago

A plugin to check to see if a shortcode is in use.

WP EzPz Tweaks

Up in the last 7 days:41#30,619

by WP EzPz2 years ago

Take the control of your WordPress Customized, Efficient, and Secure

Native Image Lazy Loading

Down in the last 7 days:277#30,623

by Justin Downey7 years ago

Automatically add the new loading attribute to images within your content to support native image lazy loading.

PageScale

Down in the last 7 days:122#30,648

by Shahzaib Rasheed2 months ago

Fast admin manager for sites with tens of thousands of pages or custom post type entries: lazy tree, virtual scroll, keyset pagination, indexed FULLTE …

Edge Images

Down in the last 7 days:23#30,694

by Jono Alderson1 month ago

Turbocharge your WordPress images by using an edge provider (like Cloudflare or Accelerated Domains) and optimizing your HTML markup.

BAY Image Size Scanner

Up in the last 7 days:1,226#30,730

by bldwebdevs1 year ago

A WordPress plugin that scans all pages for images and reports their file sizes with export to CSV/Excel.

SW Site Doctor

#30,786

by ScalingWeb Digital Services10 months ago

Scan your WordPress site for security risks, speed issues, and migration problems. Free with PageSpeed integration.

OptiCache

#30,915

by artiosmedia9 months ago

Comprehensive performance optimization: page caching, cache warmup, CSS/JS minification, defer/async loading, and intelligent .htaccess management.

Vulnerability Detector & Plugin Manager

#30,959

by WebGarh Solutions1 year ago

Vulnerability Detector is a free plugin designed to secure your WordPress website by identifying known vulnerabilities in the WordPress.

SmartPro Database Optimiser & Cleaner

Down in the last 7 days:974#31,281

by Kirtikumar Solanki5 months ago

Smart, lightweight tool to clean, optimize, and back up your WordPress database for better speed and performance.

CleanerPress

#31,341

by Arevico13 years ago

Every admin wants to have their website loaded as fast as possible.CleanerPress tries to give you some more control over what is outputted to the user

Niquelao Watermark

Up in the last 7 days:266#31,401

by Koke Pérez2 months ago

Adds a watermark on the fly when images are opened or saved by their direct URL, without ever modifying the original file.

Startklar Image Optimizer

Down in the last 7 days:768#31,402

by WEB-SHOP-HOSTING4 years ago

This plugin allows you to optimize images from your media library and thus improve the SEO performance of your site.

AHS

Down in the last 7 days:87#31,422

by ahsdeveloper9 months ago

Automatically convert uploaded images to modern WebP format to reduce file size and improve website performance.

CSS JS Query String Remover

#31,429

by kevin7 years ago

This plugin fix WordPress performance issue: Remove query strings from static resources

Better Comments

#31,459

by Matt Biscay27 days ago

Make your WordPress comments feel native to your design.

Privacy Lite Video Embeds for YouTube

Down in the last 7 days:4,032#31,461

by Arno Peck6 days ago

Fast video embeds for YouTube. Nothing loads until click.

Elinweb Lightweight Player for Aparat

Up in the last 7 days:30,687#31,517

by Iman Shadmehri1 month ago

نمایش سبک ویدئوهای آپارات با پوستر محلی، پخش با یک کلیک و فصل‌بندی ویدئو؛ همراه بلوک گوتنبرگ و ویجت المنتور.

Netgold AVIF Converter

#31,619

by netgold.pl2 months ago

Non-invasive JPG/PNG to AVIF image converter with Bulk Conversion, Space Saved tracking, and a beautiful visual UI.

Lazy load video players

Up in the last 7 days:374#31,824

by Mark Howells-Mead11 months ago

Any video player which is included on the page will only be loaded if/when it is visible within the current browser window.

Moon Static HTML Pages

Up in the last 7 days:5,930#31,884

by Moon Technolabs3 months ago

Generates static HTML for your pages and serves them instantly, bypassing heavy WordPress processes.

kombat-optimizer

Down in the last 7 days:221#31,964

by d_alinus20045 months ago

WebP optimizer for WordPress/WooCommerce with scan, cron, and TTFB tools in a fast tabbed interface.

Mosne Hero

Down in the last 7 days:231#32,012

by Mosne / Paolo Tesei4 months ago

This plugin extends the core/cover block with separate mobile and desktop background images and sizes.

Basic Optimization

Down in the last 7 days:322#32,055

by Shah Alom4 months ago

A lightweight WordPress optimization plugin for disabling selected default frontend and header outputs such as emojis, shortlinks, embeds, XML-RPC, se …

WP Utility and Performance

#32,162

by Mayank Majeji2 years ago

This plugin allows you to enable / disable the unused resources included by WordPress and third-party themes and plugins.

SEV WebP Migrator for W3TC

Down in the last 7 days:286#32,207

by Heinrich Franz1 month ago

Replaces image URLs with their WebP versions once W3 Total Cache ImageService converts them, with optional deletion of the originals.

Halka WebP Image Optimizer

Down in the last 7 days:260#32,274

by Jewel Rana7 months ago

Automatically compress and convert uploaded images to WebP for faster page loads.

HyperDB

Down in the last 7 days:122#32,316

by Automattic4 years ago

HyperDB is an advanced database class that supports replication, failover, load balancing, and partitioning.