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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.

⚠ Stale⚠ Likely abandoned
How scoring works →
45 Health · D
Maintenance 3/100
Rating quality 76/100
Support 70/100

45 health vs 67 average across 1,075 Performance plugins

High removal-risk signals

63/100

Maintenance 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.

37 / 100

Under-optimized

Biggest win: Update recency

Update recency 0/100
WP compatibility 10/100
Rating quality 64/100
Listing tuning 84/100

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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Daily downloads

Since 2022-10-05 · 1,425 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive

+77% vs prior 30d
11Downloads · Aug 26

30-day downloads

Rolling 30-day volume · peaks are release surges

99

now · peak 144

9730d downloads · Aug 26

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

HTTP/2 Server Push · #7201 you Speculative Loading · #605 Flying Pages: Preloa · #1375 Quicklink for WordPr · #5590

Rating trend

Star average over time · dips mark rough releases

4.2Stars · Aug 26

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.

108per 1k installs · Aug 26

Release cadence

No release in a year
from wp.org release tags

How 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

1.4 · 8.4y ago1.3 · 9.9y ago1.2 · 10.2y ago1.1 · 10.3y ago

What its installed base runs

via wordpress.org

Share 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.

v1.4 98%
v1.3 1.8%

Estimated active installs

The public count shows “900+”. Our estimate pins where the real number sits.

tracked estimate
900–1K ≈950

Refined from the date this plugin crossed into its current band.

Install history · since 2015-10-06 · 1,417 observations

900Installs · Aug 26

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

N/A

Est. acquisition value

N/A

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

Version
1.4
Last updated
8.4y ago
Added
2015-07-22 · 11 yrs old
Requires WP
3.0
Tested up to
4.9.31
Requires PHP

Recent reviews

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  1. Juuso Turunen
    7.2y ago

    This plugin works very well!

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  2. bettersecurity
    7.4y ago

    Works perfectly in conjunction with Cloudflare to deliver excellent performance

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  3. blablabla
    7.8y ago

    It’s not enough to trigger a proper HTTP2 Server Push without warnings for all preloaded resources. It needs some header checks.

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  4. jeduan
    9.3y ago

    this plugin just works.

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  5. Daniel Chase
    9.4y ago

    This plugin helped speed up my website by 33%!

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  6. wasanajones
    9.8y 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…

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  7. schlafcola
    10.0y 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

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  8. commando
    10.2y 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.

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Behavioral tests

via WP Hive

Automated install-time checks, tested on PHP 7.2.16 · WP 5.3

Low memory footprint
Low page-speed impact
Runs on latest PHP + WP
No PHP errors
No JS errors
Activates cleanly
No resource errors
No external HTTP errors
Optimized database use
Frequently updated

Growth timeline

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

  1. 2026-06-23 1K+ → 900+ down after 1076 days in tier
  2. 2023-07-13 2K+ → 1K+ down after 12 days in tier
  3. 2023-07-01 1K+ → 2K+ up after 2 days in tier
  4. 2023-06-29 2K+ → 1K+ down after 1 days in tier
  5. 2023-06-28 1K+ → 2K+ up after 1 days in tier
  6. 2023-06-27 2K+ → 1K+ down

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