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Speed up Contact Form 7

by Roman from Hella fast · Forms

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Makes Contact Form 7 and several add-ons to load only on pages with a form. Increases PageSpeed and improves load time.

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

45 health vs 63 average across 1,678 Forms plugins

300+

Active installs

≈350 estimated

3.5K

Total downloads

since 2021

4.05★

Rating (adjusted)

4.7★ raw · 3 reviews

+52%

99

Downloads · 30d

category median +21%

Removal-risk signals

53/100

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 5+ years — the top precursor to removal once a vulnerability is found.
  • Falling behind WordPress. Tested up to WordPress 5.6.19.

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.

43 / 100

Under-optimized

Biggest win: Update recency

Update recency 4/100
WP compatibility 25/100
Rating quality 54/100
Listing tuning 100/100

To rank higher: Last updated 1913 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

+52% vs prior 30d
3Downloads · Aug 26

30-day downloads

Rolling 30-day volume · peaks are release surges

99

now · peak 175

9930d 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

Speed up Contact For · #10019 you LiteSpeed Cache · #5 WP Fastest Cache · #48 W3 Total Cache · #72

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.

330per 1k installs · Aug 26

What its installed base runs

via wordpress.org

Share of active installs on each version of this plugin · 100% run the current release. Green is the current release; a big slice on older versions is a user base that has stopped updating.

v1.1 100%

Estimated active installs

The public count shows “300+”. Our estimate pins where the real number sits.

tracked estimate
300–400 ≈350

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

Install history · since 2022-10-04 · 1,384 observations

300Installs · 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.

Ratings · 3 reviews

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5★
2 4★
1 3★
0 2★
0 1★
0

Details

Version
1.1
Last updated
5.2y ago
Added
2021-01-27 · 5 yrs old
Requires WP
3.0.1
Tested up to
5.6.19
Requires PHP
5.2.4
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Recent reviews

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  1. ★★★★★ joeaudet
    5.4y ago

    This worked great to solve my issue of the ReCaptcha v3 showing up on EVERY page with Contact Form 7. I tried several variations of code for disabling the loading of the scripts on pages that were not my contact form, and none of them worked properly. This was tested with WP v5.7 and CF7 v5.4 successfully, confirmed with a debug / fiddler trace that the scripts were not downloaded by the client.

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  2. ★★★★★ teim
    5.5y ago

    Recommend this plugin! This topic was modified 5 years, 5 months ago by teim.

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  3. ★★★★★ Thyrosis
    5.6y ago

    This plug-in does exactly what it says it does. But, even more important: it removes the Google reCaptcha files from all the pages that don’t use a Contact Form 7 form in the page. This is not only a speed-boost, but makes your website less Googly and more privacy friendly. It doesn’t take a sidebar into account though (hence the 4*). But, for the site I’m currently working on, that’s not an issue. I’m very happy with the simplicity of this plug-in and would definitely recommend it.

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Behavioral tests

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Automated install-time checks, tested on PHP 7.4.8 · WP 5.7.2

✓ 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. 2026-08-13 400+ → 300+ down after 319 days in tier
  2. 2025-09-28 500+ → 400+ down after 537 days in tier
  3. 2024-04-09 400+ → 500+ up after 3 days in tier
  4. 2024-04-06 500+ → 400+ down after 1 days in tier
  5. 2024-04-05 400+ → 500+ up after 488 days in tier
  6. 2022-12-04 300+ → 400+ up after 1 days in tier
  7. 2022-12-03 400+ → 300+ down after 10 days in tier
  8. 2022-11-23 300+ → 400+ up after 20 days in tier

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