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WordPress Performance Plugins

GenerateBlocks

GenerateBlocks is a collection of building blocks for the WordPress block editor, a.k.a. Gutenberg. It is a freemium plugin developed by Tom Usborne, the creator …

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Redis Object Cache

REmote DIctionary Server (Redis) is a type of object cache, which can speed up database queries. To use Redis, it must be installed on your …

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Cache Enabler

Cache Enabler is a relatively simple, but effective, caching plugin developed by KeyCDN and available from the WordPress repository. As all caching plugins, it generates …

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WebP Express

WebP Express is an image optimization plugin for WordPress that solves a real problem – it serves images in the .webp format to browsers that …

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CAOS

CAOS, or Complete Analytics Optimization Suite, is a WordPress plugin allowing you to host the Google Analytics javascript file locally on your server. The plugin …

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Swift Performance

Swift Performance is a freemium caching and speed optimization plugin for WordPress. The free version, called Swift Performance Lite is hosted in the official WordPress …

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Autoptimize

Autoptimize is a very popular speed optimization plugin developed by Frank Goossens and available for free from the official WordPress repository. Can you improve your …

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WP Rocket

WP Rocket is a premium caching plugin developed by WP Media. Years ago, the caching plugin market was dominated by free plugins from the official …

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To be included in this list, the plugin cannot load jQuery on the front end, as it negatively affects page load times. The plugins may load jQuery in the admin area, but on the front end, they must rely on vanilla JS, or load no javascript at all. The list presents plugins available from the official WordPress repository and commercial marketplaces, as well as those available only from the websites of their developers.