HTTP/2 Server Push
by Dana Ross · Performance
Also makes 4 other plugins · 960+ installs across the portfolio →
Enables HTTP/2 server push for local JavaScript and CSS resources.
45 health vs 67 average across 1,075 Performance plugins
High removal-risk signals
63/100Maintenance and integrity signals that tend to precede a WordPress.org removal. Not an official status, a heads-up to act.
- Long abandoned. No update in 8+ years — the top precursor to removal once a vulnerability is found.
- Compatibility drift. Tested only up to WordPress 4.9.31, well behind 6.8.
Directory ranking optimization
How it's scored →How well this listing is tuned to rank in WordPress.org search, on the factors an owner controls. Not popularity, optimization.
Under-optimized
Biggest win: Update recency
To rank higher: Last updated 3079 days ago — ship an update; wp.org decays a listing's search weight after ~180 days.
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Since 2022-10-05 · 1,425 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive
30-day downloads
Rolling 30-day volume · peaks are release surges
99
now · peak 144
Directory rank vs rivals
wp.org popularity rank over time · higher is better · when a rival's line climbs above yours, they've overtaken you
Rating trend
Star average over time · dips mark rough releases
Update activity
How busy the existing users are, measured as downloads in the last 30 days for every 1,000 active sites. A spike means a new release everyone's pulling; a long, slow decline means an aging user base that updates less.
Release cadence
No release in a yearHow often this plugin actually ships. A steady rhythm is the maintenance signal a single "last updated" date can't show.
0
releases in the last 12 months
8.4y ago
latest release · v1.4
4
tagged releases on record
Recent releases
What its installed base runs
via wordpress.orgShare of active installs on each version of this plugin · 98% run the current release. Green is the current release; a big slice on older versions is a user base that has stopped updating.
Estimated active installs
The public count shows “900+”. Our estimate pins where the real number sits.
Refined from the date this plugin crossed into its current band.
Install history · since 2015-10-06 · 1,417 observations
Estimated value
What this plugin might earn a year, and what it might sell for. Modeled from public signals; we don't see anyone's books.
Est. annual revenue
Est. acquisition value
No paid tier is visible, so we don't put a figure on revenue or sale value: that would be guessing. The install base is a real asset to an acquirer, just not one public data lets us price. A small install base leaves thin data to model from.
Details
Recent reviews
All reviews on wp.org ↗- ★★★★★ Juuso Turunen7.2y ago
This plugin works very well!
Read on wp.org ↗ - ★★★★★ bettersecurity7.4y ago
Works perfectly in conjunction with Cloudflare to deliver excellent performance
Read on wp.org ↗ - ★★★★★ blablabla7.8y ago
It’s not enough to trigger a proper HTTP2 Server Push without warnings for all preloaded resources. It needs some header checks.
Read on wp.org ↗ - ★★★★★ jeduan9.3y ago
this plugin just works.
Read on wp.org ↗ - ★★★★★ Daniel Chase9.4y ago
This plugin helped speed up my website by 33%!
Read on wp.org ↗ - ★★★★★ wasanajones9.8y ago
Boink ! endless hours fine tuning and agonizing over my complicated site(s) with a gazillion plugins and scripts. tried every cache ever made for wordpress. different CDN’s… fire breathing VPS… without Cloudflare, and Simple Cache site loads in something like 16 seconds now using all free cloudflare, simple cache and HTTP/2 Server Push… Pingdom is telling me it loaded in UNDER 2 seconds…
Read on wp.org ↗ - ★★★★★ schlafcola10.0y ago
Hey I am very much interested in the concept of using server push and I have tried it with some sites using the plugin in combination with another plugin called WP Asset Clean Up . WP Asset Clean Up allows you to deregister styles and scripts that you do not want/need on every page. It was much easier for a quick test than writing some conditional logic. I have compared it with loading times against a normal w3 total cache site where everything is minified and cached. So far for the bloated theme (salient), the loading times are actually much better for the website using w3 total cache, but I still think that a lightweight theme with conditional logic for js and css in combination with server push will be my future concept for the next websites we are developing. I also got the 520 errors from cloudflare when editing the pages but this can be circumvented by switching the plugin off before editing. Keep up the good work I think there is great potential in this plugin. I think that prefetch, preload and deregister could be options that one could choose for each script/style on each page to really only load scripts when they are needed. Thanks again! Tino
Read on wp.org ↗ - ★★★★★ commando10.2y ago
Unfortunately this didn’t work for me. I tried two websites, running Photocrati and Interface themes. I don’t run a caching plugin, but I cleared my web server cache and browser cache multiple times. I gave the plugin 3/5 because I like the idea and don’t want to put people off, and because it does no harm. Hopefully it can be improved to work more broadly.
Read on wp.org ↗
Behavioral tests
via WP HiveAutomated install-time checks, tested on PHP 7.2.16 · WP 5.3
Growth timeline
Install-tier crossings we have observed, and how long each tier took to outgrow
- 2026-06-23 1K+ → 900+ down after 1076 days in tier
- 2023-07-13 2K+ → 1K+ down after 12 days in tier
- 2023-07-01 1K+ → 2K+ up after 2 days in tier
- 2023-06-29 2K+ → 1K+ down after 1 days in tier
- 2023-06-28 1K+ → 2K+ up after 1 days in tier
- 2023-06-27 2K+ → 1K+ down
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