Best speed plugins for WordPress

Simple DNS Prefetch

Down in the last 7 days:55#12,739

by andrewmoof8 years ago

Adds (or removes) DNS prefetching meta tags to your site and speeds up your page load speed.

The Off Switch (formerly WP Avoid Slow)

Up in the last 7 days:104#12,767

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:82#12,864

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:76#12,906

by lithiumsixteen8 years ago

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

Force WebP

Up in the last 7 days:303#13,309

by Qrzysio2 months ago

Say goodbye to JPG and PNG - make your site run on fast, modern WebP images.

Local Open Sans

Down in the last 7 days:53#13,405

by ThemeBoy12 years ago

Replace Open Sans with a local copy to speed up admin testing and development.

SitePulse

Up in the last 7 days:109#14,162

by Nilbug2 days ago

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

Asta HTML Minifier

Down in the last 7 days:215#16,073

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 …

Sunny

Down in the last 7 days:82#16,682

by Tang Rufus8 years ago

Automatically purge Cloudflare cache, including cache everything rules.

CSS Optimizer

Down in the last 7 days:65#16,694

by wooncherk4 years ago

Clean up and remove unused CSS from your website. Also generates Critical CSS to improve PageSpeed Score.

Smart Image Loader

Down in the last 7 days:43#17,147

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.

QQWorld Speed for China

Down in the last 7 days:147#17,898

by Michael Wang5 years ago

如果你的主机在中国内地，你可能需要这个插件使你的网站跑得更快。If your host is in china mainland, you might need this plugin to make your website to running faster.

SnapCache

Down in the last 7 days:47#17,978

by StaticWeb.io1 month ago

A high-performance persistent object cache powered by Memcached.

WP Speed 404

Down in the last 7 days:50#18,126

by Michael Thomas9 years ago

WP Speed 404 can either suppress or log any 404 errors affecting your site under wp-content, wp-admin and wp-includes (configurable).

BootstrapCDN

Down in the last 7 days:24#18,479

by jimaek13 years ago

The official WordPress plugin of BootstrapCDN by MaxCDN.

Performance Optimization

Down in the last 7 days:6#18,743

by Satya Prakash13 years ago

Ordering StyleSheet and JavaScript (external and inline) for performance optimization.

Why So Slow?

Down in the last 7 days:1,120#18,929

by bettersecurity2 years ago

Improve the loading speed of your website by removing bloat and unused features (formerly named Better Speed)

Scrutoscope

Down in the last 7 days:288#18,949

by Kurt Payne1 month ago

Find which plugins, hooks, and queries are slowing your WordPress site. From the author of P3 Profiler.

Berq Used CSS

Down in the last 7 days:1,175#19,477

by BerqWP26 days ago

Make your website load faster by removing unused CSS. Automatically strips bloated stylesheets down to only what each page actually needs.

Prerender and Prefetch

Up in the last 7 days:131#19,936

by Francisco Torres14 years ago

Puts Prerender and Prefetch tag in the page. Allowing compatible navigators to do a pre-load of the page you figure the visitor is going to go.

StaticDelivr

Down in the last 7 days:284#20,166

by coozywana9 months ago

Speed up WordPress with free CDN delivery, image optimization, smart asset detection, failure recovery, and privacy-first Google Fonts proxy.

Image Preloading

Down in the last 7 days:147#20,423

by tiptinker7 months ago

Modern image preloading/prefetching plugin for WordPress to improve page loading performance.

Globaliser

Up in the last 7 days:149#21,104

by Globaliser5 days ago

This plugin enables Globaliser Cloud's services for Globaliser clients' WordPress sites.

Pagemeter

Down in the last 7 days:51#21,469

by ultrawebhosting29 days ago

An on-demand plugin speed test: see which plugins cost the most time to build a page, measure your caching, and prove every improvement.

EmiCache

Up in the last 7 days:194#21,532

by ismeteroglu5 months ago

Fastest cache for Elementor & WooCommerce. Works on LiteSpeed, Nginx, Apache. WebP, lazy load, critical CSS, CDN, Core Web Vitals boost.

Skyspeed

#21,692

by Jackson Jonah5 months ago

Boost your site speed automatically. Resizes huge uploads, converts images to next-gen WebP & AVIF formats, and safely backs up originals.

Free Image CDN

Down in the last 7 days:107#22,286

by Chema2 years ago

Free Image CDN using wsrv.nl - Improves the speed of your site.

BaseCloud Boost

Down in the last 7 days:604#22,519

by BaseCloud26 days ago

World-class page caching, asset optimization, and performance acceleration for WordPress — by BaseCloud.

Satellite Optimization Monitoring

Down in the last 7 days:9#22,948

by joshvickers10 years ago

Satellite is a simple WordPress optimization reporting tool. Get actionable metrics you can use to improve your website's performance.

LCP Accelerator

Up in the last 7 days:480#24,051

by SACHINRAJ CP2 months ago

A lightweight plugin to optimize Largest Contentful Paint (LCP) for better page speed.

Widget Speed Test for Elementor

#24,172

by Scott Bowler3 years ago

Identify Elementor widgets that are slowing down page rendering and load times.

Optimal State

Up in the last 7 days:40#24,342

by Luke Garrison1 month ago

One plugin to optimize, backup, secure, and speed up your WordPress site. Replaces 4+ plugins.

Profiling Tool For WP

#24,352

by Juan Carlos Pereira Diaz5 months ago

A plugin for testing the performance of the themes, plugins and scripts of your Wordpress site.

Turbolinks

Down in the last 7 days:29#24,442

by justnorris9 years ago

Easily speed up your site by making all your links into Turbolinks.

Simple Site Speed

Up in the last 7 days:371#24,529

by GreatBlakes12 years ago

Add page load times for admins on the front-end.

Inline HTML, CSS & Javascript Minifier

#25,153

by willroy8 years ago

Minify all front end code (HTML, CSS and Javascript).

Lumeo Vitals

#25,427

by lumeosoft3 months ago

Optimize your Core Web Vitals (LCP, INP, CLS) with one click. A lightweight performance engine for modern WordPress sites.

Capo

Up in the last 7 days:528#25,727

by Rick Viscomi2 months ago

Automatically reorders the HTML head of your WordPress pages for optimal browser rendering performance using the Capo.js methodology.

Header Junk Remover

Up in the last 7 days:772#25,904

by Joseph Brzezowski4 months ago

Short Description: Remove unnecessary meta tags and junk from your WordPress header for faster load times and cleaner code.

ZapCache

Down in the last 7 days:21#26,159

by Aleksandr Ivanov1 year ago

ZapCache — powerful WordPress plugin for instantly clearing all types of caches with a single click.

Plugin Output Cache

Down in the last 7 days:192#26,341

by RobMarsh18 years ago

Plugin Output Cache can be used by other plugins to cache portions of their output for efficiency.

Wonder Cache

Down in the last 7 days:58#26,379

by handyplugins2 months ago

A simple yet powerful caching plugin. It powers and abilities include: superhuman strength and durability.

InfoBilisim Query Strings Remover

Down in the last 7 days:179#27,494

by vedataydar5 months ago

A lightweight plugin to remove query strings from static resources like CSS and JS files to improve speed and caching scores.

Performance Tweaks

Down in the last 7 days:258#27,699

by Rick Hoekman1 year ago

WordPress Performance Tweaks

Simple Webp Images

#27,791

by Mike Bricknell-Barlow2 years ago

Generates webp images from uploaded images, and outputs webp images in content in compatible browsers. Optionally provides lazy-load functionality.

RUFO

#27,839

by Globaliser2 years ago

Checks whether Contact Form 7 is used on a page or post, and add js/css files only if used.

CSS-JS-Booster

Up in the last 7 days:151#28,085

by Schepp16 years ago

CSS-JS-Booster automates performance optimizing steps related to CSS, Media and Javascript linking/embedding.

PANOMITY WP CACHE

Up in the last 7 days:180#28,338

by Panomity GmbH3 years ago

PANOMITY WP CACHE Interface.

Optimator

Up in the last 7 days:351#28,590

by Engramium10 months ago

Simplify and streamline WordPress by removing unnecessary data and functionalities.

Site Speed Monitor

Down in the last 7 days:286#29,038

by Evan Herman8 years ago

Site Speed Monitor allows you to monitor your website load times automatically while tracking it's performance.