#5 by installs
LiteSpeed Cache
All-in-one unbeatable acceleration & PageSpeed improvement: caching, image/CSS/JS optimization...
- Installs
- 7+ million
- Rating
- 4.8 (2.8K)
- Updated
- 11 days ago
Plugins tagged “performance”
40 of the most-installed plugins carry this tag, ranked by active installs. The plugin's author chose the tag, not WPBundle.
#36 by installs
WP Super Cache
A very fast caching engine for WordPress that produces static html files.
- Installs
- 1+ million
- Rating
- 4.3 (1.3K)
- Updated
- 31 days ago
#44 by installs
Speed Optimizer – The All-In-One Performance-Boosting Plugin
Boost your website performance and page speed, and increase conversions with powerful caching, frontend, media, and environment optimizations.
- Installs
- 1+ million
- Rating
- 4.2 (641)
- Updated
- 11 days ago
#47 by installs
WP Fastest Cache – WordPress Cache Plugin
The simplest and fastest WP Cache system
- Installs
- 1+ million
- Rating
- 4.9 (4.2K)
- Updated
- 21 days ago
#55 by installs
ManageWP Worker
A better way to manage dozens of WordPress websites.
- Installs
- 1+ million
- Rating
- 4.6 (679)
- Updated
- 2 months ago
Image Optimizer is an easy-to-use WordPress plugin that reduces image size through various compression and resizing techniques – all of which preserve …
- Installs
- 1+ million
- Rating
- 1.7 (81)
- Updated
- 39 days ago
#73 by installs
W3 Total Cache
Search Engine (SEO) & Performance Optimization (WPO) via caching. Integrated caching: CDN, Page, Minify, Object, Fragment, Database support.
- Installs
- 900,000+
- Rating
- 4.4 (5.4K)
- Updated
- 11 days ago
#77 by installs
Autoptimize
Autoptimize speeds up your website by optimizing JS, CSS, images (incl. lazy-load), HTML and Google Fonts, asyncing JS, removing emoji cruft and more.
- Installs
- 800,000+
- Rating
- 4.7 (1.4K)
- Updated
- 6 days ago
#123 by installs
Redis Object Cache
A persistent object cache backend powered by Redis®¹. Supports Predis, PhpRedis, Relay, replication, sentinels, clustering and WP-CLI.
- Installs
- 500,000+
- Rating
- 4.5 (179)
- Updated
- 43 days ago
#148 by installs
Custom Fonts – Host Your Fonts Locally
Custom Fonts is a powerful WordPress plugin that allows you to upload your own custom fonts or choose from a vast collection of Google Fonts, all host …
- Installs
- 400,000+
- Rating
- 4.3 (62)
- Updated
- 2 months ago
#160 by installs
Breeze Cache
Breeze is a caching plugin developed by Cloudways. Breeze uses advance caching systems to improve site loading times exponentially.
- Installs
- 300,000+
- Rating
- 3.6 (133)
- Updated
- 11 days ago
#167 by installs
WebP Express
Serve autogenerated WebP images instead of jpeg/png to browsers that supports WebP.
- Installs
- 300,000+
- Rating
- 4.4 (162)
- Updated
- 13 days ago
#168 by installs
AMP
An easier path to great Page Experience for everyone. Powered by AMP.
- Installs
- 300,000+
- Rating
- 3.8 (367)
- Updated
- 19 months ago
#205 by installs
Page Optimize
Optimize pages for faster load and render in the browser.
- Installs
- 200,000+
- Rating
- 3.0 (5)
- Updated
- 12 days ago
#241 by installs
Query Monitor
Query Monitor is the developer tools panel for WordPress and WooCommerce.
- Installs
- 200,000+
- Rating
- 4.9 (470)
- Updated
- 4 days ago
#245 by installs
Jetpack Boost – Website Speed, Performance and Critical CSS
Speed up your WordPress site with one-click optimizations like Page Cache, Critical CSS, and Image CDN to improve Core Web Vitals.
- Installs
- 200,000+
- Rating
- 4.7 (612)
- Updated
- 23 days ago
#304 by installs
Performance Lab
Performance plugin from the WordPress Performance Team, which is a collection of standalone performance features.
- Installs
- 100,000+
- Rating
- 4.3 (51)
- Updated
- 2 months ago
#324 by installs
Aruba HiSpeed Cache
Aruba HiSpeed Cache interfaces directly with an Aruba hosting platform's HiSpeed Cache service and automates its management.
- Installs
- 100,000+
- Rating
- 3.0 (10)
- Updated
- 5 days ago
Speed up your website. Optimize your JPEG, PNG, and WebP images automatically with TinyPNG.
- Installs
- 100,000+
- Rating
- 4.5 (181)
- Updated
- 18 days ago
Clean database by deleting orphaned data such as 'revisions', 'expired transients', optimize database and more...
- Installs
- 100,000+
- Rating
- 4.9 (2K)
- Updated
- 2 months ago
#354 by installs
Modern Image Formats
Converts images to more modern formats such as WebP or AVIF during upload.
- Installs
- 100,000+
- Rating
- 3.6 (26)
- Updated
- 2 months ago
#403 by installs
Manage – Centralized site maintenance and monitoring
Manage provides a centralized dashboard to monitor, optimize, and maintain your WordPress sites without switching between individual sites.
- Installs
- 100,000+
- Rating
- 2.0 (1)
- Updated
- 23 days ago
#416 by installs
Cache Enabler
A lightweight caching plugin for WordPress that makes your website faster by generating static HTML files.
- Installs
- 100,000+
- Rating
- 4.3 (139)
- Updated
- 34 days ago
Boost site speed and performance with an all-in-one cache and speed optimization plugin. Pass Core Web Vitals with CDN, image optimization, lazy loadi …
- Installs
- 90,000+
- Rating
- 4.3 (311)
- Updated
- 36 days ago
Optimize PageSpeed Performance & Core Web Vitals, Advanced Cache, Minify CSS & JavaScript, Inline Critical CSS, Defer CSS & JS, Smush & Lazy Load, CDN
- Installs
- 70,000+
- Rating
- 4.7 (1.5K)
- Updated
- 2 months ago
#614 by installs
Speculative Loading
Enables browsers to speculatively prerender or prefetch pages to achieve near-instant loads based on user interaction.
- Installs
- 70,000+
- Rating
- 5.0 (18)
- Updated
- 2 months ago
#620 by installs
Async JavaScript
Async Javascript lets you add 'async' or 'defer' attribute to scripts to exclude to help increase the performance of your WordPress website.
- Installs
- 60,000+
- Rating
- 4.7 (102)
- Updated
- 3 years 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
- 60,000+
- Rating
- 4.6 (405)
- Updated
- 18 days ago
#657 by installs
Disable Emojis (GDPR friendly)
Disable the WordPress emoji functionality to improve performance and privacy.
- Installs
- 60,000+
- Rating
- 5.0 (108)
- Updated
- 5 months ago
#663 by installs
Image Placeholders
Displays placeholders based on an image's dominant color while the image is loading.
- Installs
- 60,000+
- Rating
- 3.5 (2)
- Updated
- 2 months ago
#686 by installs
Optimization Detective
Provides a framework for leveraging real user metrics to detect optimizations for improving page performance.
- Installs
- 60,000+
- Rating
- 4.3 (3)
- Updated
- 2 months ago
#721 by installs
Index WP MySQL For Speed
Speed up your WordPress site by adding high-performance keys (database indexes) to your MariaDB / MySQL database tables.
- Installs
- 50,000+
- Rating
- 4.8 (99)
- Updated
- 26 days ago
#741 by installs
Seraphinite Accelerator
Turns on site high speed to be attractive for people and search engines.
- Installs
- 50,000+
- Rating
- 4.8 (476)
- Updated
- 5 days ago
#773 by installs
Embed Optimizer
Optimizes the performance of embeds through lazy-loading, adding dns-prefetch links, and reserving space to reduce layout shifts.
- Installs
- 50,000+
- Rating
- 3.0 (2)
- Updated
- 2 months ago
#784 by installs
Enhanced Responsive Images
Improvements for responsive images in WordPress.
- Installs
- 50,000+
- Rating
- No reviews
- Updated
- 2 months ago
Optimize and tweak WordPress by disable unused features. Improve performance, SEO and security using Clearfy — super easy, fast and zero code.
- Installs
- 40,000+
- Rating
- 4.7 (339)
- Updated
- 3 months ago
#820 by installs
Image Prioritizer
Prioritizes the loading of images and videos based on how they appear to actual visitors: adds fetchpriority, preloads, lazy-loads, and sets sizes.
- Installs
- 40,000+
- Rating
- 5.0 (1)
- Updated
- 2 months ago
#922 by installs
Performant Translations
Making internationalization/localization in WordPress faster than ever before.
- Installs
- 30,000+
- Rating
- 4.9 (16)
- Updated
- 2 months ago
#923 by installs
Simply Static – The Static Site Generator
Convert WordPress to static HTML. Boost performance 3-5x. Eliminate security vulnerabilities. Deploy anywhere.
- Installs
- 30,000+
- Rating
- 4.5 (195)
- Updated
- 2 days ago
#956 by installs
Debloat – Remove Unused CSS, Optimize JS
Remove Unused CSS, Optimize CSS, Optimize JS and speed up your site.
- Installs
- 30,000+
- Rating
- 4.8 (41)
- Updated
- 22 days ago
Where these numbers come from
Every figure is read from the WordPress.org plugin directory's public API, and each page links to the entry it came from. “Most-installed” is the directory's own popularity order. WordPress.org rounds active installs into buckets, so “1+ million” can mean anything from one to two million.
These are the directory's numbers, not my verdicts. I haven't tested these plugins. Where I have checked a deal on one, its page says so and links the deal.