#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
W3 Total Cache
Search Engine (SEO) & Performance Optimization (WPO) via caching. Integrated caching: CDN, Page, Minify, Object, Fragment, Database support.
- Active installs
- 900,000+
- #73 of 1,000
- Downloads, all time
- 67.6M
- 67,596,784
- Downloads, 30 days
- 927.3K
- 122.2K in the last 7
- Rating
- 4.4 / 5
- 5,420 reviews
- Last updated
- 11 days ago
- Oct 20, 2026
- Version
- 2.11.0
- 136 releases
What W3 Total Cache's own page says
Read from boldgrid.comon
| Plan | Price | Billed | Renews at | Sites |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 Site License | $99 | per year | Not shown | 1 Site |
| 5 Site Licenses | $350 | per year | Not shown | 5 Sites |
| 10 Site Licenses | $500 | per year | Not shown | 10 Sites |
The page's own words around each price
- 1 Site License:
n](https://www.boldgrid.com/support/w3-total-cache/page-cache/rest-api/) 1 Site License $99/year Perfect for those who want the best performance. [Buy Now](https://www.w3-edge.
- 5 Site Licenses:
/?utm source=BG%20Website&utm medium=W3TC%20page&utm campaign=BoldGrid) 5 Site Licenses $350/year Includes 1 Free [Plugin Configuration](https://www.boldgrid.com/w3-total-cache/
- 10 Site Licenses:
Website&utm medium=W3TC%20page&utm campaign=BoldGrid) $70 per license 10 Site Licenses $500/year Includes 2 Free [Plugin Configurations](https://www.boldgrid.com/w3-total-cache
- Money-back period mentioned: 30 days
Who it is for
Perfect for those who want the best performance.
Use cases the vendor names
- Improve website speed and performance
- Enhance user experience
- Reduce server load
- Increase revenue and conversions
Features it lists
- Page Caching
- Database Caching
- Fragment Caching
- Object Caching
- REST API Caching
- Browser Caching
- Lazy Load Images
- HTTP Compression
- WebP Image Conversion
- Minifying
A script read this page, and kept only what the page's text backs up. These are the vendor's list prices and its own words, not a deal and not my review. Prices change and can differ by country, so confirm on the vendor's page before you buy.
Upkeep and compatibility
| Last updated | October 20, 2026Updated in the last 3 months |
|---|---|
| Tested up to | WordPress 7.1.4Covers WordPress 7.1.4, the current release |
| Needs WordPress | 6.0 or newer |
| Needs PHP | 7.4 or newer |
| First published | July 29, 2009 |
| Support, last two months | 8 of 13 threads resolved (62%) |
Reviews
4.4 / 5 from 5,420 reviews
| 5 stars | 4,057 |
|---|---|
| 4 stars | 585 |
| 3 stars | 160 |
| 2 stars | 102 |
| 1 star | 516 |
Downloads, last 30 days
What the author says it does
W3 Total Cache (W3TC) improves the SEO, Core Web Vitals and overall user experience of your site by increasing website performance and reducing load times by leveraging features like content delivery network (CDN) integration and the latest best practices.
W3TC is the only web host agnostic Web Performance Optimization (WPO) framework for WordPress trusted by millions of publishers, web developers, and web hosts worldwide for more than a decade. It is the total performance solution for optimizing WordPress Websites.
BENEFITS
- Improvements in search engine result page rankings, especially for mobile-friendly websites and sites that use SSL
- At least 10x improvement in overall site performance (Grade A in WebPagetest or significant Google PageSpeed improvements) when fully configured
- Improved conversion rates and “site performance” which affect your site’s rank on Google.com
- “Instant” repeat page views: browser caching
- Optimized progressive render: pages start rendering quickly and can be interacted with more quickly
- Reduced page load time: increased visitor time on site; visitors view more pages
- Improved web server performance; sustain high traffic periods
- Up to 80% bandwidth savings when you minify HTML, minify CSS and minify JS files.
KEY FEATURES
- Compatible with shared hosting, virtual private / dedicated servers and dedicated servers / clusters
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
Why does speed matter?
Search engines like Google, measure and factor in the speed of web sites in their ranking algorithm. When they recommend a site they want to make sure users find what they’re looking for quickly. So in effect you and Google should have the same objective.
Why is W3 Total Cache better than other caching solutions?
It’s a complete framework. Most cache plugins available do a great job at achieving a couple of performance gains. Total Cache is different because it remedies numerous performance reducing aspects of any web site. It goes farther than the basics, beyond merely reducing CPU usage (load) or bandwidth consumption for HTML pages.
I’ve never heard of any of this stuff; my site is fine, no one complains about the speed. Why should I install this?
Rarely do readers take the time to complain. They typically just stop browsing earlier than you’d prefer and may not return altogether. This is the only plugin specifically designed to make sure that all aspects of your site are as fast as possible. Google is placing more emphasis on the speed of a site as a factor in rankings; this plugin helps with that too.
Which WordPress versions are supported?
To use all features in the suite, WordPress 6.0 or higher with PHP 7.4 or higher is required.
Why doesn’t minify work for me?
Great question. W3 Total Cache uses several open source tools to attempt to combine and optimize CSS, JavaScript and HTML etc. Unfortunately some trial and error is required on the part of developers is required to make sure that their code can be successfully minified with the various libraries W3 Total Cache supports.
What about comments? Does the plugin slow down the rate at which comments appear?
On the contrary, as with any other action a user can perform on a site, faster performance will encourage more of it. The cache is so quickly rebuilt in memory that it’s no trouble to show visitors the most current version of a post that’s experiencing Digg, Slashdot, Drudge Report, Yahoo Buzz or Twitter effect.
Latest changelog entry
- Feature: Extensions: Add the CloudLinux Max Cache extension
- Update: Licensing: Store the license JWT and call the v2 APIs
- Fix: REST API Cache: Clear a retained REST cache mode when Pro is inactive
- Fix: Minify: Keep automatic minify file names to the hash and extension
- Fix: Minify: Use a per-request id for HTML minify placeholders
- Fix: Page Cache: Skip a second WP_CACHE define when the site already set it
- Fix: Filesystem: Skip the credentials prompt after a successful empty rules-file write
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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.