WordPress Caching plugins: selection criteria and comparison
WordPress Performance measurement and optimization: alternatives and switching considerations
Compare features, licenses and deployment needs.
LiteSpeed Cache brings caching and image, CSS and JavaScript optimization into one WordPress plugin. Its documented scope combines page delivery with the assets that pages load.
Source description: “A very fast caching engine for WordPress that produces static html files.” Deployment: WordPress 6.8 / PHP 7.4. Listed version 3.1.4. 1,000,000 active installations reported by WordPress.org.
Source description: “Boost your website performance and page speed, and increase conversions with powerful caching, frontend, media, and environment optimizations.” Deployment: WordPress 5.5.1 / PHP 7.0. Listed version 7.8.4. 1,000,000 active installations reported by WordPress.org.
Source description: “The simplest and fastest WP Cache system”. Deployment: WordPress 5.7 / PHP not specified. Listed version 1.5.3. 1,000,000 active installations reported by WordPress.org.
Source description: “Get caching and more with this powerful cache plugin. Cache, optimize images, clean your database and minify for…” Deployment: WordPress 4.9 / PHP 7.2. Listed version 4.7.0. 1,000,000 active installations reported by WordPress.org.
Source description: “Search Engine (SEO) & Performance Optimization (WPO) via caching. Integrated caching: CDN, Page, Minify, Object, Fragment, Database support.” Deployment: WordPress 6.0 / PHP 7.4. Listed version 2.10.7. 900,000 active installations reported by WordPress.org.
Source description: “SpeedyCache is a WordPress cache plugin that helps you improve performance of your WordPress site by caching, minifying,…” Deployment: WordPress 4.7 / PHP 7.0. Listed version 1.4.3. 500,000 active installations reported by WordPress.org.
Source description: “A persistent object cache backend powered by Redis®¹. Supports Predis, PhpRedis, Relay, replication, sentinels, clustering and WP-CLI.” Deployment: WordPress 4.6 / PHP 7.2. Listed version 3.0.0. 500,000 active installations reported by WordPress.org.
Source description: “Breeze is a caching plugin developed by Cloudways. Breeze uses advance caching systems to improve site loading times…” Deployment: WordPress 6.0 / PHP 7.4. Listed version 2.6.2. 300,000 active installations reported by WordPress.org.
Source description: “Speed up your WordPress site with one-click optimizations like Page Cache, Critical CSS, and Image CDN to improve…” Deployment: WordPress 7.0 / PHP 7.4. Listed version 4.8.1. 200,000 active installations reported by WordPress.org.
Source description: “Cleans nginx's fastcgi/proxy cache or redis-cache whenever a post is edited/published. Also does a few more things.” Deployment: WordPress 3.0 / PHP not specified. Listed version 2.4.1. 200,000 active installations reported by WordPress.org.
Source description: “Aruba HiSpeed Cache interfaces directly with an Aruba hosting platform's HiSpeed Cache service and automates its management.” Deployment: WordPress 6.2 / PHP 7.4. Listed version 3.1.0. 100,000 active installations reported by WordPress.org.