Best speed plugins for WordPress
The most popular speed plugins for WordPress in November 2026, in WordPress.org’s own popular order, which follows active installs. Speed Optimizer leads with 1M+ active installs, ahead of Cloudflare (200K+) and Jetpack Boost (200K+). All 292 plugins tagged “speed” are below, with figures from WordPress.org that update every day.
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Top 10 speed plugins
- 1.
Speed OptimizerThe most installed speed plugin, with 1M+ active installs. Rated 4.2 from 641 reviews, updated 6 days ago.
- 2.
Cloudflare200K+ active installs. Rated 3.5 from 181 reviews, updated 1 month ago.
- 3.Jetpack Boost
200K+ active installs. Rated 4.7 from 612 reviews, updated 2 days ago.
- 4.
10Web Booster60K+ active installs. Rated 4.6 from 405 reviews, updated 3 weeks ago.
- 5.
A2 Optimized WP60K+ active installs. Rated 3.1 from 43 reviews, last updated 1 year ago. Tested only up to WordPress 6.7.11.
- 6.Debloat
30K+ active installs. Rated 4.8 from 41 reviews, updated 4 weeks ago.
- 7.Flying Pages
20K+ active installs. Rated 4.9 from 79 reviews, updated 5 months ago.
- 8.
PhastPress10K+ active installs. Rated 4.9 from 99 reviews, updated 2 weeks ago.
- 9.
WP Performance Score Booster10K+ active installs. Rated 4.6 from 339 reviews, updated 2 months ago.
- 10.
Prevent Browser Caching10K+ active installs. Rated 4.9 from 29 reviews, updated 3 weeks ago.
All 292 plugins tagged “speed”

Speed Optimizer
#44by SiteGround6 days ago
Boost your website performance and page speed, and increase conversions with powerful caching, frontend, media, and environment optimizations.
- Installs
- 1M+
- Rating
- 4.2(641)
- Downloads
- 5.6K/day

Cloudflare
Up in the last 7 days:1#226by Cloudflare1 month ago
All of Cloudflare’s performance and security benefits in a simple one-click install.
- Installs
- 200K+
- Rating
- 3.5(181)
- Downloads
- 2.8K/day
Jetpack Boost
#245by Automattic2 days ago
Speed up your WordPress site with one-click optimizations like Page Cache, Critical CSS, and Image CDN to improve Core Web Vitals.
- Installs
- 200K+
- Rating
- 4.7(612)
- Downloads
- 2.1K/day

10Web Booster
Down in the last 7 days:2#641by 10Web26 days ago
Speed up your site with 10Web Booster. Pass Core Web Vitals by optimizing HTML / CSS / JavaScript, Image Optimization, Lazy Loading, Cache, Google Fon …
- Installs
- 60K+
- Rating
- 4.6(405)
- Downloads
- 485/day

A2 Optimized WP
#668by A2 Hosting1 year ago
Make your site faster and more secure with the click of a few buttons
- Installs
- 60K+
- Rating
- 3.1(43)
- Downloads
- 103/day
Debloat
Down in the last 7 days:2#960by asadkn1 month ago
Remove Unused CSS, Optimize CSS, Optimize JS and speed up your site.
- Installs
- 30K+
- Rating
- 4.8(41)
- Downloads
- 243/day
Flying Pages
Up in the last 7 days:1#1,384by Gijo Varghese5 months ago
Preload pages intelligently to boost site speed and enhance user experience by loading pages before users click, ensuring instant page transitions.
- Installs
- 20K+
- Rating
- 4.9(79)
- Downloads
- 56/day

PhastPress
Down in the last 7 days:7#1,781by Albert Peschar15 days ago
PhastPress automatically optimizes your site for the best possible performance.
- Installs
- 10K+
- Rating
- 4.9(99)
- Downloads
- 226/day

WP Performance Score Booster
Up in the last 7 days:6#1,791by 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

Prevent Browser Caching
Down in the last 7 days:11#1,875by Kostya Tereshchuk25 days ago
Prevents browser cache problems: visitors always get the current version of your CSS, JS, images and pages, while caching keeps working.
- Installs
- 10K+
- Rating
- 4.9(29)
- Downloads
- 145/day

ezCache
Down in the last 7 days:2#2,097by uPress1 day ago
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

WP Compress
Down in the last 7 days:11#2,232by AresIT6 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

Cachify
#2,286by 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
Speed Booster Pack ⚡ PageSpeed Optimization Suite
Up in the last 7 days:1#2,350by Optimocha1 day ago
PageSpeed optimization is vital for SEO: A faster website equals better conversions. Optimize your Core Web Vitals metrics (CLS, LCP, TBT) today!
- Installs
- 8K+
- Rating
- 4.3(186)
- Downloads
- 52/day

Hyper Cache
Down in the last 7 days:3#2,510by Stefano Lissa9 months ago
Hyper Cache is a performant and easy to configure cache system for WordPress.
- Installs
- 7K+
- Rating
- 4.5(82)
- Downloads
- 38/day
Scripts To Footer
Down in the last 7 days:8#2,588by Joshua David Nelson6 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
- 46/day

Swift Performance Lite
Down in the last 7 days:12#2,844by swte4 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
- 119/day

BerqWP
Up in the last 7 days:8#3,370by BerqWP3 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
- 87/day

FastPixel Cache
Up in the last 7 days:8#3,377by ShortPixel3 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
- 190/day

Hosting Benchmark tool
Down in the last 7 days:18#3,550by 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
WPBase Cache
Up in the last 7 days:16#4,049by baseapp11 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
Staatic
#4,079by Team Staatic5 days ago
Use WordPress as your CMS, then publish a fast, lower-exposure static version of your site.
- Installs
- 3K+
- Rating
- 4.4(21)
- Downloads
- 132/day

DietPress
Down in the last 7 days:26#4,509by Fernando Tellado6 days ago
Page cache, browser cache, defer JS, critical CSS, lazy load and WordPress cleanup. Speed up your site and disable the bloat you do not need.
- Installs
- 2K+
- Rating
- 5.0(39)
- Downloads
- 105/day
Falcon
Up in the last 7 days:20#4,542by Anh Tran19 days ago
A lightweight WordPress plugin for performance, security, cleanup, and everyday tweaks.
- Installs
- 2K+
- Rating
- 5.0(10)
- Downloads
- 68/day

Assets manager, dequeue scripts, dequeue styles for WordPress
Down in the last 7 days:24#5,044by webcraftic19 days ago
Increase the speed of the pages by disabling unused scripts (.JS) and styles (.CSS). Make your website REACTIVE!
- Installs
- 2K+
- Rating
- 4.3(53)
- Downloads
- 34/day

Widget Detector for Elementor
Down in the last 7 days:25#5,500by Element Invader5 months ago
Detect Elementor Widgets used on pages, also detect not used Widgets or Missing Widgets.
- Installs
- 1K+
- Rating
- 4.9(39)
- Downloads
- 23/day

Quicklink for WordPress
Down in the last 7 days:8#5,615by WP Munich1 year ago
⚡️ Faster subsequent page-loads by prefetching in-viewport links during idle time.
- Installs
- 1K+
- Rating
- 5.0(11)
- Downloads
- 14/day
Specify Missing Image Dimensions
Down in the last 7 days:6#5,688by yasir1294 years ago
This plugin helps to add missing width and height attributes to images.
- Installs
- 1K+
- Rating
- 4.5(11)
- Downloads
- 12/day
Templ Optimizer
Down in the last 7 days:9#5,996by Templ1 month ago
Optimize your site and improve its performance with a few clicks.
- Installs
- 1K+
- Rating
- 5.0(3)
- Downloads
- 19/day

Fastcache by Host.it
Up in the last 7 days:49#6,036by Host.it1 day ago
FastCache è un plugin WordPress per caching avanzato, CDN e ottimizzazione delle prestazioni, sviluppato e supportato interamente in Italia.
- Installs
- 1K+
- Rating
- 5.0(2)
- Downloads
- 56/day

Easy Optimizer
Up in the last 7 days:118#6,179by FluxPress11 days ago
Free all-in-one performance optimization: page cache, unused CSS, delay JS, lazy load, LCP preload and WebP for faster speed and Core Web Vitals.
- Installs
- 1K+
- Rating
- 4.6(18)
- Downloads
- 70/day

Fastly
Down in the last 7 days:3#6,628by Fastly1 year ago
Integrates Fastly with WordPress publishing tools. This is the official Fastly plugin for WordPress. The official code repository for this plugin is a …
- Installs
- 1K+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 48/day

Preload Images
Down in the last 7 days:29#7,040by Ravikumar Patel2 days ago
Preload or prefetch images, site-wide or per page, for a faster page loading experience.
- Installs
- 900+
- Rating
- 4.6(8)
- Downloads
- 11/day

GoCache
Down in the last 7 days:48#7,651by Apiki2 months ago
Acelere seu site e reduza seus custos com cloud.
- Installs
- 700+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 14/day
Batcache
Down in the last 7 days:17#7,680by Automattic6 years ago
Batcache uses Memcached to store and serve rendered pages.
- Installs
- 700+
- Rating
- 4.5(2)
- Downloads
- 22/day

RapidLoad AI
Up in the last 7 days:12#8,215by Shakeeb Sadikeen27 days ago
Supercharge your website with RapidLoad AI, featuring cutting-edge AI to automate optimizing CSS, JavaScript, images, fonts, and caching.
- Installs
- 600+
- Rating
- 4.2(70)
- Downloads
- 46/day

WebP Express Plus
Down in the last 7 days:49#8,366by WP014 years ago
Exclusion of necessary images from processing by the "WebP Express" plugin
- Installs
- 600+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 11/day

Shift8 CDN
Down in the last 7 days:21#9,086by shift89 months ago
This is a plugin that integrates a 100% free CDN service operated by Shift8, for your Wordpress site. What this means is that you can simply install t …
- Installs
- 500+
- Rating
- 4.4(40)
- Downloads
- 11/day

Tada
Down in the last 7 days:51#9,357by binarymoon2 years ago
Make your website load more quickly.
- Installs
- 400+
- Rating
- 4.0(6)
- Downloads
- 6/day

F12 Profiler
Up in the last 7 days:6#9,441by Forge12 Interactive GmbH8 months ago
Comprehensive WordPress performance analysis with crawling, load time measurement, server diagnostics, and integrated optimization tools. Free.
- Installs
- 400+
- Rating
- 4.0(6)
- Downloads
- 14/day

Cache Using Gzip
Up in the last 7 days:108#9,616by Mark Nokes1 month ago
Lightweight WordPress caching with gzip compression for faster page loads — no complicated settings.
- Installs
- 400+
- Rating
- 5.0(3)
- Downloads
- 13/day

Cloudflare Page Cache
Up in the last 7 days:20#9,845by Cloudflare7 years ago
Adds support for caching pages on Cloudflare and automatic purging when content changes.
- Installs
- 400+
- Rating
- 5.0(8)
- Downloads
- 7/day

Ultra Web Hosting Performance Toolkit
Down in the last 7 days:52#10,205by ultrawebhosting27 days ago
Optimize, secure, and speed up WordPress: trim front-end bloat, clean the database, block attacks and spam, and purge every cache in one click.
- Installs
- 300+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 7/day
Hyper Cache Extended
Down in the last 7 days:45#10,439by mlazarov8 years ago
Hyper Cache Extended is flexible and easy to configure cache system for WordPress. It's aim is to work on any installation.
- Installs
- 300+
- Rating
- 4.9(14)
- Downloads
- 6/day
PHP Vitals
Down in the last 7 days:101#10,455by Webslice2 months ago
How fast is your web host? Dozens of PHP speed tests, 1 overall grade: The easy way to compare hosting performance.
- Installs
- 300+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 22/day
Tweaks for Elementor
Up in the last 7 days:71#10,801by Dima Minka4 years ago
Tweaks for Elementor
- Installs
- 300+
- Rating
- 5.0(5)
- Downloads
- 0/day

Zedna WP Image Lazy Load
Down in the last 7 days:119#11,039by Radek Mezulanik7 years ago
Image lazy load plugin to boost page load time and save bandwidth by removing all the images, background-images, responsive images, iframes and videos …
- Installs
- 300+
- Rating
- 4.5(16)
- Downloads
- 6/day

Cache Cleaner X-Ray
Up in the last 7 days:66#11,110by Lumiverse Dynamictoday
See what is putting pressure on WordPress and clean only what is safe.
- Installs
- 300+
- Rating
- 5.0(4)
- Downloads
- 11/day
WP GZip
Down in the last 7 days:65#11,444by Lucas Milanez10 years ago
Simple plugin to enable or disable the GZip on your site. Only works on Apache servers
- Installs
- 200+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

Site Speed Test
Down in the last 7 days:81#12,606by Sabrina Zeidan2 years ago
Tracks Core Web Vitals for you. Every single day, for free.
- Installs
- 200+
- Rating
- 5.0(20)
- Downloads
- 5/day