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Performance: what AI assistants recommend

Each engine was asked 3 phrasings of the performance question, several times each. A plugin's share is how many of those answers named it; position is where in the answer it came, on average. Latest run 25 Oct 2026.

The questions asked
  • Which WordPress plugins improve site performance the most?
  • How do I make my WordPress site faster? Which plugins do you recommend?
  • What's the best performance optimization plugin for WordPress?
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What each assistant names

The plugins ChatGPT and Claude named most when asked about Performance, how often each was named and where it came in the answer, with its wp.org search position beside it.

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Top results for "performance" on 31 Oct 2026

  1. 1 Performance Lab
  2. 2 Speed Optimizer
  3. 3 WP-Optimize
  4. 4 LiteSpeed Cache
  5. 5 Hummingbird Performance
  6. 6 Jetpack Boost
  7. 7 SpeedyCache
  8. 8 Solid Performance
  9. 9 Swift Performance Lite
  10. 10 Elementor Website Builder

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