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Hyper Cache

by Stefano Lissa · Performance

Also makes 12 other plugins · 414.8K+ installs across the portfolio →

Hyper Cache is a performant and easy to configure cache system for WordPress.

How scoring works →
82 Health · B
Maintenance 85/100
Rating quality 86/100
Support 70/100

82 health vs 67 average across 1,076 Performance plugins

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.

92 / 100

Excellent listing optimization

Well tuned across the board

Update recency 96/100
WP compatibility 100/100
Rating quality 87/100
Listing tuning 84/100

Daily downloads

Since 2022-10-05 · 1,421 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive

+20% vs prior 30d
33Downloads · Aug 26

30-day downloads

Rolling 30-day volume · peaks are release surges

634

now · peak 5.9K

61930d 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

Hyper Cache · #2480 you Jetpack Boost · #244 10Web Booster · #586 WP Compress · #2125

Rating trend

Star average over time · dips mark rough releases

4.5Stars · 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.

77per 1k installs · Aug 26

Release cadence

Occasionally updated
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.

2

releases in the last 12 months

7mo ago

latest release · v3.4.4

17

tagged releases on record

Recent releases

3.4.4 · 7mo ago3.4.3 · 7mo ago3.4.2 · 2.8y ago3.4.1 · 2.8y ago3.4.0 · 5.0y ago3.3.9 · 7.1y ago3.3.8 · 7.3y ago3.3.1 · 9.2y ago3.2.9 · 9.2y ago3.2.8 · 9.2y ago3.2.7 · 9.2y ago3.1.8 · 11.6y ago2.9.1.6 · 12.0y ago1.2 · 17.8y ago

What its installed base runs

via wordpress.org

Share of active installs on each version of this plugin · 68% run the current release. Green is the current release; a big slice on older versions is a user base that has stopped updating.

v3.4 68%
v3.3 19%
v3.2 6.9%
Older / other versions 6%

Estimated active installs

The public count shows “8K+”. Our estimate pins where the real number sits.

tracked estimate
8K–9K ≈8.5K

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

Install history · since 2015-03-10 · 1,498 observations

8KInstalls · 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
3.4.4
Last updated
7mo ago
Added
2008-04-11 · 18 yrs old
Requires WP
6.1
Tested up to
6.9.7
Requires PHP
7.0

Recent reviews

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  1. NightFlash
    3.1y ago

    С этим плагином нагрузка на сервер в разы меньше, а сама скорость загрузки страниц значительно выросла. Они загружаются просто моментально!

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  2. Christian Gäking
    4.3y ago

    Really well coded plugin, improved pagespeed for google from 86 to 93 compared to lightspeed cache. Simple and reliable.

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  3. treecutter
    5.0y ago

    Hyper Cache just works for us, and does exactly what we want. Code is very lightweight, simple to install and even easier to use. Very decent plugin indeed, thank you to the developer

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  4. bloup
    6.4y ago

    Hyper cache is an little known excellent cache plugin for wordpress. This is the only free plugin I am aware of that is capable of creating two separate caches for your website. One for your mobile version and one for your desktop version. It is great for those like me who have a wordpress theme that is not responsive. My theme delivers a mobile menu for mobile phones and a desktop menu for desktops. I needed a version of a page to display the mobile menu and another version to display the desktop menu. I used WP super cache. It didn’t work because it had no separated cache. I bought WP rocket. It stored two versions but Googlebot for smartphone returned issues when it scanned a page of my website. It is simple. It can be set up in 30 seconds. There aren’t any useless settings. It only works with PHP, it means several things. it means that this plugin will never mess up your HTACCESS and create strange behavior due to rewrite directives since there is NO rewrite directives. Your HTACCESS remain CLEAN just like when your mother clean the toilets. You activate it and it works. Googlebot for smartphone love it and does not return any errors. I love to read no loading issues. This topic was modified 6 years, 3 months ago by bloup.

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  5. Pierre236
    7.1y ago

    I install it in one website because i have bug with other plugin, i just thing it’s normal cache like other, but after i don’t understand why this website are more speed than my other, then i install it in other, replace other famous caching, and can see miracle, green color on page speed test! Thanks a lot

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  6. lousalome2
    7.2y ago

    Good work

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  7. dorogoi
    7.3y ago

    I tried to change the settings of the plugin. Plugin broke site. I had to restore the site. Upd. The problem was solved

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  8. Patrick Toulze
    7.5y ago

    This is to replace a supposely famous other WordPress cache plugins that bug my site. First page without plugin: 38 requests 1.80 MB / 1.41 MB transferred Finish: 9.27 s DOMContentLoaded: 1.44 s load: 9.27 s With plugin: 7 requests 212.02 KB / 2.04 KB transferred Finish: 6.20 s DOMContentLoaded: 385 ms load: 730 ms Nothing else to say, the numbers are talking. Just enough control to be a pro solution

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Latest updates

via wp.org changelog

Recent releases and news for this plugin

  1. Version 3.4.4 Readme changes Removed separated mobile cache (obsolete) 3.4.4
  2. Version 3.4.3 WP 6.9 check PCP check 3.4.3
  3. Version 3.4.2 Fixed fatal error 3.4.2
  4. Version 3.4.1 Compatibility check with WP 6.3.2 3.4.1
  5. Version 3.4.0 Compatibility check with WP 5.8 Fixed some plugin and readme headers Preparing to remove the mobile server side detection Setting the minimum WP version to 4.6, translations loading are now fully managed by WP 3.4.0
  6. Version 3.3.9 Added clean up of blog posts page (thanks Erich) 3.3.9

Behavioral tests

via WP Hive

Automated install-time checks, tested on PHP 8.1.12 · WP 7.0.1

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

Languages

via translate.wordpress.org

Translated into 68 languages, 3 at 90% or more

Spanish (Chile) 100%
Spanish (Spain) 100%
Russian 94%
Italian 48%
German 41%
German (Formal) 41%
Romanian 35%
Swedish 17%
English (Canada) 9%
English (UK) 8%
French (France) 7%
Japanese 7%
English (New Zealand) 6%
Finnish 6%
Azerbaijani 5%
English (Australia) 5%
Hebrew 5%
Polish 5%
Spanish (Mexico) 5%
Basque 4%
Croatian 4%
Dutch 4%
Hindi 4%
Moroccan Arabic 4%

Plus 44 more locales with partial translations.

Growth timeline

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

  1. 2026-04-08 9K+ → 8K+ down after 125 days in tier
  2. 2025-12-04 10K+ → 9K+ down

Competes with

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