Perform – Optimize Performance
by Mehul Gohil · Performance
Speed up your WordPress site by removing unused assets, optimize loading order, and much more; ideal for WooCommerce, page builders and busy sites.
84 health vs 69 average across 510 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.
Excellent listing optimization
Biggest win: Rating quality
To rank higher: Too few reviews to rank on quality — nudge happy users to leave one.
Get the full rank-higher report →Daily downloads
Since 2022-10-05 · 1,381 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive
30-day downloads
Rolling 30-day volume · peaks are release surges
109
now · peak 512
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
Downloads per 1k installs · 30d
Engagement proxy · release spikes are signal, a long slide is an aging base
Estimated active installs
wp.org reports only “200+”. The real number sits in this band.
Refined from the date this plugin crossed into its current band.
Install history · since 2022-10-04 · 1,381 observations
Details
Growth timeline
Install-band crossings we have observed, and how long each band took to outgrow
- 2026-01-27 300+ → 200+ down after 120 days in band
- 2025-09-29 200+ → 300+ up after 1 days in band
- 2025-09-28 300+ → 200+ down after 3 days in band
- 2025-09-25 200+ → 300+ up after 108 days in band
- 2025-06-09 100+ → 200+ up after 373 days in band
- 2024-06-01 90+ → 100+ up after 1 days in band
- 2024-05-31 100+ → 90+ down
Competes with
The plugins that solve the same job, ranked by shared tags then reach — closest match first
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W3 Total Cache 900K+ installs · 4.4★ · 4 shared tags B -
LiteSpeed Cache 7M+ installs · 4.8★ · 3 shared tags A -
Breeze Cache 400K+ installs · 3.6★ · 3 shared tags B -
Cachify 9K+ installs · 4.5★ · 3 shared tags B -
WP Super Cache 1M+ installs · 4.3★ · 2 shared tags A -
Speed Optimizer – The All-In-One Performance-Boosting Plugin 1M+ installs · 4.2★ · 2 shared tags A
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