Performance plugins
Performance plugins on HostList: a daily-ranked view of WordPress.org plugins tagged performance, drawn from HostList's curated tracker (top installs plus hosting-relevant tags). Active installs are WordPress.org buckets. Use the table to shortlist tools, then follow the hosting links for stack-fit guidance. Rankings are never paid.
| Rank ↑ | Plugin | Active installs | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | LiteSpeed Cache LiteSpeed Technologies | 7M+ | 4.8 / 5 (2,760 ratings) |
| 17 | Jetpack Automattic | 3M+ | 3.8 / 5 (2,404 ratings) |
| 44 | Image Optimization Elementor | 1M+ | 1.7 / 5 (77 ratings) |
| 50 | ManageWP Worker ManageWP | 1M+ | 4.6 / 5 (677 ratings) |
| 60 | Speed Optimizer SiteGround | 1M+ | 4.2 / 5 (637 ratings) |
| 63 | WP Fastest Cache Emre Vona | 1M+ | 4.9 / 5 (4,220 ratings) |
| 65 | WP Super Cache Automattic | 1M+ | 4.3 / 5 (1,343 ratings) |
| 71 | W3 Total Cache BoldGrid | 900K+ | 4.4 / 5 (5,420 ratings) |
| 75 | Autoptimize Optimizing Matters | 800K+ | 4.7 / 5 (1,427 ratings) |
| 134 | AMP Weston Ruter | 400K+ | 3.8 / 5 (367 ratings) |
| 135 | Breeze Cache Cloudways | 400K+ | 3.6 / 5 (125 ratings) |
| 138 | Custom Fonts Brainstorm Force | 400K+ | 4.3 / 5 (62 ratings) |
| 150 | Redis Object Cache Till Krüss | 400K+ | 4.5 / 5 (175 ratings) |
| 200 | WebP Express rosell.dk | 300K+ | 4.4 / 5 (161 ratings) |
| 242 | Jetpack Boost Automattic | 200K+ | 4.7 / 5 (607 ratings) |
| 255 | Page Optimize Automattic | 200K+ | 3.0 / 5 (5 ratings) |
| 263 | Query Monitor John Blackbourn | 200K+ | 4.9 / 5 (468 ratings) |
| 294 | Advanced Database Cleaner Younes JFR. | 100K+ | 4.9 / 5 (1,937 ratings) |
| 301 | Aruba HiSpeed Cache Aruba.it Dev | 100K+ | 3.0 / 5 (10 ratings) |
| 371 | Modern Image Formats WordPress Performance Team | 100K+ | 3.4 / 5 (25 ratings) |
| 385 | Performance Lab WordPress Performance Team | 100K+ | 4.3 / 5 (51 ratings) |
| 437 | TinyPNG TinyPNG | 100K+ | 4.5 / 5 (174 ratings) |
| 477 | Cache Enabler KeyCDN | 90K+ | 4.3 / 5 (139 ratings) |
| 493 | NitroPack NitroPack | 90K+ | 4.3 / 5 (310 ratings) |
| 505 | 10Web Booster 10Web | 80K+ | 4.6 / 5 (405 ratings) |
| 542 | Manage Elementor | 80K+ | 2.0 / 5 (1 ratings) |
| 574 | Async JavaScript David Clough | 70K+ | 4.7 / 5 (102 ratings) |
| 595 | Hummingbird Performance WPMU DEV - Your All-in-One WordPress Platform | 70K+ | 4.7 / 5 (1,488 ratings) |
| 619 | Speculative Loading WordPress Performance Team | 70K+ | 5.0 / 5 (18 ratings) |
| 646 | Disable Emojis (GDPR friendly) Ryan Hellyer | 60K+ | 5.0 / 5 (108 ratings) |
| 655 | Image Placeholders WordPress Performance Team | 60K+ | 3.5 / 5 (2 ratings) |
| 665 | Optimization Detective WordPress Performance Team | 60K+ | 4.3 / 5 (3 ratings) |
| 677 | Super Page Cache Optimole | 60K+ | 4.8 / 5 (502 ratings) |
| 712 | Clearfy Cache Creativemotion | 50K+ | 4.7 / 5 (339 ratings) |
| 725 | Embed Optimizer WordPress Performance Team | 50K+ | 3.0 / 5 (2 ratings) |
| 726 | Enhanced Responsive Images WordPress Performance Team | 50K+ | No ratings |
| 738 | Image Prioritizer WordPress Performance Team | 50K+ | 5.0 / 5 (1 ratings) |
| 740 | Index WP MySQL For Speed OllieJones | 50K+ | 4.8 / 5 (98 ratings) |
| 761 | Seraphinite Accelerator Seraphinite Solutions | 50K+ | 4.8 / 5 (475 ratings) |
| 864 | Performant Translations Pascal Birchler | 40K+ | 4.9 / 5 (16 ratings) |
| 964 | Debloat asadkn | 30K+ | 4.8 / 5 (41 ratings) |
| 1044 | Simply Static Simply Static | 30K+ | 4.5 / 5 (194 ratings) |
| 1058 | SpinupWP Brad Touesnard | 30K+ | 5.0 / 5 (13 ratings) |
| 1184 | Docket Cache Nawawi Jamili | 20K+ | 4.9 / 5 (50 ratings) |
| 1216 | Flying Pages Gijo Varghese | 20K+ | 4.9 / 5 (79 ratings) |
| 1253 | Insights from Google PageSpeed Matt Keys | 20K+ | 4.8 / 5 (28 ratings) |
| 1422 | WP Meteor Website Speed Optimization Addon Aleksandr Guidrevitch | 20K+ | 4.7 / 5 (77 ratings) |
| 1431 | WP YouTube Lyte Frank Goossens | 20K+ | 4.8 / 5 (206 ratings) |
| 1469 | AF Companion AF themes | 10K+ | 4.9 / 5 (34 ratings) |
| 1525 | bunny.net bunny.net | 10K+ | 2.9 / 5 (21 ratings) |
| 1601 | Delete Duplicate Posts Lars Koudal | 10K+ | 4.8 / 5 (152 ratings) |
| 1645 | Embed Privacy epiphyt | 10K+ | 4.9 / 5 (26 ratings) |
| 1662 | ezCache uPress | 10K+ | 4.6 / 5 (5 ratings) |
| 1667 | Featherweight jody nesbitt | 10K+ | 4.1 / 5 (45 ratings) |
| 1735 | Instant Back/Forward Weston Ruter | 10K+ | 5.0 / 5 (1 ratings) |
| 1765 | Lightweight Accordion Andy Feliciotti | 10K+ | 5.0 / 5 (60 ratings) |
| 1781 | LWS Optimize Aurélien LWS | 10K+ | 4.6 / 5 (9 ratings) |
| 1888 | Plugin Check (PCP) WordPress.org | 10K+ | 4.5 / 5 (36 ratings) |
| 2004 | Simple Like Page topdevs.net | 10K+ | 4.3 / 5 (24 ratings) |
| 2034 | SQLite Object Cache OllieJones | 10K+ | 5.0 / 5 (50 ratings) |
| 2087 | Use Google Libraries Jason Penney | 10K+ | 4.4 / 5 (47 ratings) |
| 2104 | View Transitions WordPress Performance Team | 10K+ | 5.0 / 5 (23 ratings) |
| 2115 | Web Worker Offloading WordPress Performance Team | 10K+ | 3.5 / 5 (2 ratings) |
| 2142 | WP Compress AresIT | 10K+ | 4.5 / 5 (155 ratings) |
| 2163 | WP Performance Score Booster Dipak Gajjar | 10K+ | 4.6 / 5 (339 ratings) |
| 2239 | Cachify pluginkollektiv | 9K+ | 4.7 / 5 (47 ratings) |
| 2283 | Lazy Load for Videos kevinweber | 9K+ | 4.4 / 5 (105 ratings) |
| 2284 | Lazy Loader Florian Brinkmann | 9K+ | 4.7 / 5 (49 ratings) |
| 2395 | Code Profiler bruandet | 8K+ | 4.3 / 5 (35 ratings) |
| 2404 | ElasticPress 10up | 8K+ | 4.1 / 5 (29 ratings) |
| 2413 | Freesoul Deactivate Plugins Jose Mortellaro | 8K+ | 4.8 / 5 (104 ratings) |
| 2426 | Hyper Cache Stefano Lissa | 8K+ | 4.5 / 5 (82 ratings) |
| 2460 | QuickWebP Ludwig You | 8K+ | 4.7 / 5 (19 ratings) |
| 2481 | SNS Count Cache marubon | 8K+ | 4.0 / 5 (4 ratings) |
| 2667 | Plugin Load Filter enomoto celtislab | 7K+ | 4.8 / 5 (52 ratings) |
| 2697 | Scripts To Footer Joshua David Nelson | 7K+ | 4.7 / 5 (37 ratings) |
| 2787 | Clear All Cache for WP Super Cache apasionados | 6K+ | 3.1 / 5 (11 ratings) |
| 2949 | Swift Performance Lite swte | 6K+ | 3.6 / 5 (125 ratings) |
| 2994 | WPGraphQL Smart Cache Jason Bahl | 6K+ | 5.0 / 5 (4 ratings) |
| 3007 | Cloudinary Cloudinary | 5K+ | 4.0 / 5 (64 ratings) |
| 3019 | FlyWP Helper FlyWP | 5K+ | 5.0 / 5 (3 ratings) |
| 3032 | PageSpeed Ninja PageSpeed | 5K+ | 4.5 / 5 (114 ratings) |
| 3037 | Plugin Detective NSquared | 5K+ | 4.0 / 5 (48 ratings) |
| 3069 | BerqWP BerqWP | 4K+ | 4.2 / 5 (52 ratings) |
| 3082 | FastPixel Cache ShortPixel | 4K+ | 4.8 / 5 (46 ratings) |
| 3090 | Hosting Benchmark tool Anton Aleksandrov | 4K+ | 4.7 / 5 (32 ratings) |
| 3092 | JCH Optimize codealfa | 4K+ | 4.4 / 5 (69 ratings) |
| 3109 | Solid Performance Nexcess | 4K+ | 4.3 / 5 (3 ratings) |
| 3111 | Surge Konstantin Kovshenin | 4K+ | 4.9 / 5 (31 ratings) |
| 3118 | WP Hyper Response Stocker_jp | 4K+ | No ratings |
| 3130 | atec Cache APCu docjojo | 3K+ | 4.9 / 5 (20 ratings) |
| 3143 | DefendWP Firewall revmakx | 3K+ | No ratings |
| 3158 | Image Optimizer by 10web 10Web | 3K+ | 4.5 / 5 (54 ratings) |
| 3159 | instant.page Alexandre Dieulot | 3K+ | 4.9 / 5 (17 ratings) |
| 3161 | Lazy Load Control For Elementor Jose Mortellaro | 3K+ | 4.9 / 5 (15 ratings) |
| 3178 | Powered Cache poweredcache | 3K+ | 4.8 / 5 (57 ratings) |
| 3192 | SQLite Database Integration WordPress.org | 3K+ | 4.6 / 5 (12 ratings) |
| 3193 | Static 404 Brad Parbs | 3K+ | No ratings |
| 3207 | WP Remove Query Strings From Static Resources Rinku Y | 3K+ | 5.0 / 5 (5 ratings) |
| 3225 | AEH Speed Optimization Passionate Brains | 2K+ | 3.2 / 5 (20 ratings) |
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