A2 Optimized WP – Turbocharge and secure your WordPress site

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How often this plugin actually ships. A steady rhythm is the maintenance signal a single "last updated" date can't show.

Share of active installs on each version of this plugin · 84% run the current release. Green is the current release; a big slice on older versions is a user base that has stopped updating.

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Older reviewers praise big speed gains on A2 hosting, but the newer ones report broken sites, buggy behaviour and clashes with A2's own tooling that support can't untangle.

1. ★★★★★ saardvark

   7mo ago

   Broke any site I used it on. Great concept, poorly executed

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2. ★★★★★ Pablo

   2.0y ago

   “Your site has 880 autoloaded options (size: 6 MB) in the options table, which could cause your site to be slow.” Query check: SELECT option_name, length(option_value) AS option_value_length FROM wp_options WHERE autoload='yes' ORDER BY option_value_length DESC; option_name: a2opt-benchmarks-frontendoption_value_lengh: 5431864 A2 Hosting Support answer (After many messages): “We understand your concern about the ‘a2opt-benchmarks-frontend’ option and its size. You’re absolutely correct that this option is related to A2 Optimized. To clarify, this option stores performance benchmark data collected by the A2 Optimized plugin. While the size is significant, it’s important to emphasize that this data is only autoloaded in the backend while you’re signed in and will not impact your frontend performance in any way.” CONCLUSION: A2OPTIMIZED DOES THE OPPOSITE, BUT DON´T WORRY. This topic was modified 1 year, 10 months ago by Pablo.

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3. ★★★★★ DDDDD

   2.1y ago

   The A2 Optimize plugin is fundamentally a good idea but very poorly coded with numerous bugs and inconsistencies. It also seems to have significant incompatibilities with A2 TurboHub which leads to endless tail chasing as fixing something in one breaks something in the other. It’ll be great when (or if it ever) works stably but I’ve probably wasted 7-10 days failing to get it sorted. A2 support, normally very good, don’t seem equipped to deal with with the combination of their own plugins as they believe they have fixed specific issues without realizing that they have just created an issue elsewhere.

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4. ★★★★★ lbdesign

   2.6y ago

   Update 1: The plugin seems to have been improved since my first review. Update 2: A2 tech support intervened and helped reconfigure the plugin, using their CDN. It’s much better now after their help. Original review: I’m an A2 customer. I had a bad time with this plugin a few years ago. I’ve since run on A2 without their plugin. I tried it again today, and with the basic optimizations switched on, my mobile score dropped by 6 points. It’s now uninstalled yet again, and I won’t be making this mistake a 3rd time. There are too many good optimization plugins out there to choose from. This topic was modified 2 years, 1 month ago by lbdesign. This topic was modified 2 years ago by lbdesign.

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5. ★★★★★ Chris

   3.3y ago

   First off, if you are having any issues with this plugin (I see a few negative reviews), like me, you probably don’t know what you are doing. I had issues too because I didn’t know the best way to set this up. I jumped on a call with A2 support (ask for Jake, he’s the man!) to get mine fixed up correctly, and the site is now blazing fast. A score of 100 on page speed insights desktop, 77 on mobile (a very respectable result for a review site with ads and Amazon plugins), and an A on GTmetix. There’s no way to BS if you check with third-party tools, and they hit the bullseye. If you don’t know what you are doing, get this set up correctly with the A2 team. You’re site will definitely benefit.

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6. ★★★★★ lindaholley

   3.4y ago

   A-2 hosting just optimized my website. far so good, lets see how this plays out. I am excited about the potential outcome or a faster website.

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7. ★★★★★ natkrul

   3.4y ago

   A2 Hosting support installed this plugin for my site and it has sped it up by 91%. Thank you.

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8. ★★★★★ rom1our

   3.4y ago

   The plugin works very well with the Litespeed Cache plugin. In my case I had to disable Litespeed because my proxy (Ezoic) is not Litespeed compatible and in this case also the object cache is disabled, which caused major problems. In conclusion, my observation is that the plugin brings a decisive advantage in conjunction with Litespeed Cache. This topic was modified 3 years, 3 months ago by rom1our. This topic was modified 3 years, 3 months ago by rom1our.

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Recent releases and news for this plugin

1. — Version 3.0.10 Automatically clean out old front-end benchmarks results as they were getting quite large for some sites. 3.0.10
2. — Version 3.0.8 Fixed an issue where sites with low memory limits and tens of thousands of large images may experience problems loading the A2 Optimized dashboard. 3.0.8
3. — Version 3.0.7 Revised list of Best Practices Built-in Disk Caching will now auto-detect and apply optimizations for WooCommerce 3.0.7
4. — Version 3.0.6.6 Tested with WordPress 6.4 Additional A2 TurboHub functionality Small bug fixes 3.0.6.6
5. — Version 3.0.6.4 Tested with WordPress 6.2.1 Adjusted timeouts with pulling data from Google Pagespeed API 3.0.6.4
6. — Version 3.0.6 Tested with WordPress 6.2 Feature to use bcrypt for storing password hashes Feature to remove old backups of wp-config 3.0.6

1 disclosed vulnerability on record for this plugin, fixed in the current version. Sites on older versions stay exposed until they update.

1. Medium · 4.3 A2 Optimized WP <= 3.0.4 - Cross Site Request Forgery ↗
   2023-02-06 CVE-2023-23711 Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) Affects <= 3.0.4 Patched in 3.0.5

Automated install-time checks, tested on PHP 8.1.12 · WP 6.7.1

Translated into 1 language, 0 at 90% or more

Growth timeline

Install-tier crossings we have observed, and how long each tier took to outgrow

1. 2026-05-09 70K+ → 60K+ down after 205 days in tier
2. 2025-10-16 80K+ → 70K+ down after 660 days in tier
3. 2023-12-26 70K+ → 80K+ up after 193 days in tier
4. 2023-06-16 60K+ → 70K+ up after 220 days in tier
5. 2022-11-08 50K+ → 60K+ up

Competes with

The plugins that solve the same job, ranked by shared tags then reach, closest match first. The letter on the right is each plugin's health grade (A best, F worst).

• 10Web Booster – Website speed optimization, Cache & Page Speed optimizer 70K+ installs · 4.6★ · 3 shared tags B
• Cachify 9K+ installs · 4.5★ · 3 shared tags B
• BerqWP – All-In-One Optimization for Core Web Vitals, Cache, CDN, Images, CSS & JavaScript 4K+ installs · 4.2★ · 3 shared tags A
• WP Fastest Cache – WordPress Cache Plugin 1M+ installs · 4.9★ · 2 shared tags B
• Jetpack Boost – Website Speed, Performance and Critical CSS 200K+ installs · 4.6★ · 2 shared tags A
• Aruba HiSpeed Cache 100K+ installs · 3.5★ · 2 shared tags B

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A2 Optimized WP – Turbocharge and secure your WordPress site: 60K+ active installs, 3.1★ (43 reviews). Plugin Pulse (WP Mayor), as of 2026-08-25. https://plugins.wpmayor.com/plugin/a2-optimized-wp