PhastPress

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1. ★★★★★ sgpro

   1.9y ago

   Solid plugin, but if it could allow the exclusion of certain JavaScript assets, then I’d rate this a 5 stars

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2. ★★★★★ iontulburedev

   3.1y ago

   Best page speed optimization plugin for static assets if you don’t have a LightSpeed Server. If you run on Nginx/Apache then install this plugin and you will have better page speed.

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3. ★★★★★ Toine Rademacher

   3.4y ago

   I once saw a video from a YouTuber called Web Squadron. He adviced to use Phastpress and WP Meteor to use to optimize WordPress. I’ve been using WP Rocket for a while now. It did improve the speed of our site but all those options were just too hard to perfectly set up.  Phastpress is just a really simple and a great plug-in. It improves the Pagespeed score a good bit and in combination with WP Meteor, it’s even better! I myself use EWWW Image optimizer to optimize and lazyload all my images. I can easily disable the lazy load option in Phastpress and it seems to be perfectly compatible with all sort of plugins. It works great with Elementor (and WooCommerce, ARMember, ACF, etc) and I haven’t seen any quirks yet.  Thank you for creating this great FREE plug-in!

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4. ★★★★★ johns1951

   3.5y ago

   This plugin is simple to setup but it very effective in optimizing the website. The number of requests for a page when way down. Initially there were some errors caused by CSS Optimizations. Albert quickly responded within a few hours, even over the weekend, and changed a setting to fix the problem. I was made of aware of this plugin by Imran “How to Boost Page Speed Optimization WordPress for FREE in 2023 ”

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5. ★★★★★ jake79

   4.1y ago

   Over the years, I think I’ve tried just about every optimization plugin out there, Including WP Rocket, Autoptimize, etc. PhastPress is better than all of them, and it’s free. I’d be happy to pay for this plugin; it’s that good. Big thanks to Albert :))

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6. ★★★★★ andrebeltrame

   5.0y ago

   Very simple and powerful.

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7. ★★★★★ simon20

   5.2y ago

   The plugin works as promised and delivers the results in no time. I am very glad that I found this plugin. In addition, Albert is the person who really cares about regular users like myself. I was contacting him with some questions and received decent response. Keep up a great job! Simon

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8. ★★★★★ Posandu

   5.2y ago

   Pagespeed insights from 18 to 89 !! Thank you !!!

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Recent releases and news for this plugin

1. 2026-08-13 Version 3.12 Bump “Tested up to” to WordPress 7.1. 3.12
2. 2026-07-29 Version 3.11 Improve script optimization compatibility with multisite installations, CDNs, and path-rewriting service proxies. 3.11
3. 2026-06-19 Version 3.10 WebP image compression support for sites served via Cloudflare. AVIF image compression support. Bump “Tested up to” to WordPress 7.0. 3.10
4. 2026-02-11 Version 3.9 Fix deprecation error due to implicitly marking parameters as nullable. (Thanks to Roberto Bösenberg !) 3.9
5. 2025-12-11 Version 3.8 Fix CVE-2025-14388. (Thanks to Angus G. !) 3.8
6. 2025-12-10 Version 3.7 Bump “Tested up to” to WordPress 6.8. 3.7

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

1. Critical · 9.8 PhastPress <= 3.7 - Unauthenticated Arbitrary File Read via Null Byte Injection ↗
   2025-12-22 CVE-2025-14388 Improper Neutralization of Null Byte or NUL Character Affects <= 3.7 Patched in 3.8
2. Medium · 6.1 PhastPress <= 1.110 - Open Redirect ↗
   2021-03-19 CVE-2021-24210 URL Redirection to Untrusted Site ('Open Redirect') Affects <= 1.110 Patched in 1.111

Automated install-time checks, tested on PHP 8.1.12 · WP 7.0

Translated into 4 languages, 4 at 90% or more

Growth timeline

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

1. 2022-12-16 9K+ → 10K+ 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).

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• Berq Used CSS – Remove Unused CSS Automatically 50+ installs · 3.6★ · 3 shared tags B
• Flying Pages: Preload Pages for Faster Navigation & Improved User Experience 20K+ installs · 4.8★ · 2 shared tags A
• Insights from Google PageSpeed 10K+ installs · 4.5★ · 2 shared tags C
• ezCache 10K+ installs · 4.1★ · 2 shared tags A
• Speed Booster Pack ⚡ PageSpeed Optimization Suite 9K+ installs · 4.3★ · 2 shared tags A

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PhastPress: 10K+ active installs, 4.9★ (99 reviews). Plugin Pulse (WP Mayor), as of 2026-08-28. https://plugins.wpmayor.com/plugin/phastpress