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A2 Optimized WP – Turbocharge and secure your WordPress site

by A2 HostingVersion 3.0.13

Make your site faster and more secure with the click of a few buttons

Active installs
60,000+
#668 of 1,000
Downloads, all time
2.1M
2,057,052
Downloads, 30 days
2.8K
728 in the last 7
Rating
3.1 / 5
43 reviews
Last updated
21 months ago
Feb 10, 2025
Version
3.0.13
94 releases

Upkeep and compatibility

Last updatedFebruary 10, 2025Not updated for over a year
Tested up toWordPress 6.7.11Older than WordPress 7.1.4, the current release
Needs WordPressNot stated
Needs PHP7.0 or newer
First publishedOctober 8, 2015
Support, last two monthsNo threads opened

Reviews

3.1 / 5 from 43 reviews

Reviews by star rating
5 stars20
4 stars3
3 stars0
2 stars3
1 star17

Downloads, last 30 days

Low 62 a dayHigh 160 a day

What the author says it does

Boosting performance and securing your WordPress site has never been easier with the A2 Optimized WP plugin from A2 Hosting. Get customized desktop and mobile performance scores for your site, including:

  • Server speed (Time to First Byte)
  • Page load speed (Largest Contentful Paint)
  • User perception (First Contentful Paint)
  • Visual stability (Cumulative Layout Shift)
  • Website browser speed (First Input Delay)

Using these scores, A2 Optimized WP generates specific, personalized recommendations for improving your site:

  • Performance
  • Security
  • Best practices compliance

With just a few clicks you’ll give your WordPress site the boost it needs with stable, industry-proven optimizations and improvements.

Vulnerability disclosure program

Performance optimizations

Our plugin is optimized to work best in the A2 Hosting environment, so items marked with an asterisk (*) are only available for sites hosted at A2 Hosting. If you are not an A2 Hosting customer, join today!

Page caching

* Allows site visitors to save copies of your web pages on their device or browser. When they return to your website in the future, your site files load faster.

* This optimization improves Time to First Byte (TTFB) and reduces bandwidth usage.

Gzip compression

* Turns on Gzip compression to make text files smaller.

The opening of the plugin's own description. The full text, installation notes and changelog are on its WordPress.org page.

Questions the author answers

How does A2 Optimized speed up my site?

Caching is the fastest and easiest way to speed up a dynamic website.

A2 Optimized will install and configure the best available caching method with the click of a few buttons.

Does A2 Optimized make all sites faster?

A2 Optimized will speed up most sites; however, not all plugins and themes are compatible with all optimizations.

If your site is slower after enabling caching in A2 Optimized, talk to a developer about finding better solutions for the plugins that you are using.

Can I use A2 Optimized with WordFence?

A2 Optimized is compatible with most of the features in WordFence, however you should disable caching and logging in WordFence. Also, if page caching in A2 Optimized is enabled, some WordFence features that required WordPress to be fully loaded may not trigger.

Can I use A2 Optimized on any host?

Yes. A2 Optimized works on any host that supports WordPress; however, A2 Hosting provides a few more tools for speeding up your site when hosted on an A2 Hosting server.

Latest changelog entry

3.0.10

  • Automatically clean out old front-end benchmarks results as they were getting quite large for some sites.

Screenshots

From WordPress.org.

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Where this page's numbers come from

Read from the WordPress.org plugin API on , when WordPress 7.1.4 was the current release. WordPress.org rounds active installs into buckets. These are the directory's figures, not my verdict, and I haven't tested this plugin.