Speed Up – Translation Cache
by Simone Nigro · Performance
Also makes 7 other plugins · 3K+ installs across the portfolio →
The translations reduces speed of Wordpress. This plugin offers a caching solution that reduces this effects on performance.
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Health
B 84/100
Few reviews
Active installs
80+
≈89 estimated
Momentum
0%
downloads vs prior 30d
Biggest opportunity: Swap “performance” for “translation”. “performance” isn't earning its slot: you're not in the first 24 results for its own search. “translation” sits at #24 untagged, close enough for a declared tag to move it up. All five slots are taken, so one has to go.
84 health vs 69 average across 1,806 Performance plugins
Install conversion
How it's measured →0.6%
of downloads still active
At least 80 of 12.7K lifetime downloads are still running, below its category: the median Performance plugin keeps 1.4%, across 1,099 plugins.
Downloads count every update, not just first installs, so older and more frequently released plugins read lower. Compare against other Performance plugins, not across the directory. wp.org reports active installs as the bottom of a band, so the real rate is this or higher.
This plugin shipped 3 releases in the last 12 months, and every existing install that updated counted as another download. wp.org publishes no split between first installs and updates, so we show the raw rate rather than guess at one.
Details
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
Most to gain: Rating quality
Updated 97 days ago
Tested up to WordPress 7.0.8, the current branch or newer
5.0★ over 2 reviews, smoothed to 4.13★ and held back under 25 reviews
5 of 5 tags set · short description in place
To rank higher: Too few reviews to rank on quality — nudge happy users to leave one.
Get the full rank-higher report →Search visibility
How it's tracked →Directory searches this plugin turns up in, and which way each one is moving. WordPress.org publishes no history of search positions, so this starts the day we first tracked a keyword and never backfills.
37
Momentum
Losing ground
-0.2
Velocity
places per keyword, 27d
17%
Breadth
of keywords climbing, 27d
-0.3
Acceleration
recent half vs earlier
wp.org is where the directory puts the plugin for that search. On merit is where it would sit if results were ranked on rating, support and updates, without the install boost. The last column is how far the wp.org position moved, from our first reading in the last 90 days to the latest.
| Keyword | wp.org | On merit | wp.org move, 90 days |
|---|---|---|---|
| l10n your tag | #5 | #10 | down 1 |
| mo files your tag | #9 | #22 | 0 |
| translation cache your tag | #10 | #20 | — |
| gettext your tag | #19 | #22 | down 1 |
| speed up | #24 | #24 | down 2 |
| translation | #24 | #24 | down 6 |
| performance your tag | Not in the top 24 | ||
8 searches this plugin appeared in over the last 90 days, 6 listed. 2 left out as unrelated or noise (years, numbers, stray words). 1 of its tags isn't in the top 24 for their own search.
What to do about it
- Swap “performance” for “translation”. “performance” isn't earning its slot: you're not in the first 24 results for its own search. “translation” sits at #24 untagged, close enough for a declared tag to move it up. All five slots are taken, so one has to go.
Daily downloads
Since 5 Oct 2022 · 1,487 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive
30-day downloads
Rolling 30-day volume · peak 491 · peaks are release surges
Directory rank
Ranked about #17,400 to #18,100, alongside the other plugins at 80+ installs. Plugins with the same install count swap places between wp.org requests, so this is where most of them sit. Checked monthly, last on 21 Oct 2026.
Health trend
Composite health score, snapshotted daily
Update activity
Downloads in the last 30 days for every 1,000 active sites.
Not enough installs to measure. This needs at least 100 active sites; below that, a handful of downloads reads as tens of thousands.
Release cadence
Occasionally updatedHow often this plugin actually ships. A steady rhythm is the maintenance signal a single "last updated" date can't show.
3
releases in the last 12 months
3mo ago
latest release · v1.0.22 · 26 Jul 2026
23
tagged releases on record
Recent releases
What its installed base runs
via wordpress.orgShare 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.
Estimated active installs
The public count shows “80+”. Our estimate pins where the real number sits.
Crossed into this band 3 months ago and the previous band took 2 years to cross, so the real count is still just under 90.
Install history since 13 Jan 2017
Recent reviews
All reviews on wp.org ↗- ★★★★★ druut4.4y ago
We run a heavy WooCommerce store. Through the Xdebug profiler I found out that loading the translation files takes up quite some time each request (we also use NGINX caching, but only when users aren’t logged in and only for specific pages). This plugin is perfect! It’s simple, open source, but definitely made it faster.
Read on wp.org ↗ - ★★★★★ roquec6.4y ago
I’m a developer working on some customizations for a customer, and my development environment is a vagrant virtual machine and php configured with xdebug to allow remote debugging. As other developers may know, remote debugging is a feature that slows down the php performance a lot, and a slow WordPress site, is 100 times slower. The thing was so bad that I spent some time profiling the execution of the WordPress site and saw that there was a good amount of time spent in functions called translations or in tasks related to translations. I installed this plugin (by the way, the only one that does this job), and performed some additional tests, and the performance of the site improved a lot. I don’t know why this site in particular is spending so much time with translation-related functions (other sites that I have don’t have this problem), but this plugin did a good job for me. Thanks
Read on wp.org ↗
Behavioral tests
via WP HiveAutomated install-time checks, tested on PHP 8.1.12 · WP 6.2.2
AI assistants
How it's measured →Whether ChatGPT and Claude name this plugin when asked the category question, and whether the readme gives them something to quote.
Not measured yet for this plugin’s topics. Its tracked searches are not among the measured topics. See the topics measured so far.
Readme readiness
4 of 8 pass · checked 30 Oct 2026Can an assistant quote this readme? Eight deterministic checks over the wp.org listing, no model involved.
- ✓ Says what it does "The translations reduces speed of Wordpress. This plugin offers a caching solution that reduces this effect..."
- ! Has a FAQ No FAQ section.
- ! FAQ asks real questions No FAQ to judge.
- ! Names who it is for Never says who the plugin is for or what they use it for.
- ✓ Names what it works with Mentions Multisite.
- ✓ Headings and lists 2 headings and 1 list.
- ✓ Enough to quote 1,491 characters of description.
- ! Tags match the text Only 2 of 5 tags appear in the text ("gettext", "mo files", "translation cache" missing).
Growth timeline
Install-tier crossings we have observed, and how long each tier took to outgrow
- 2026-08-07 100+ → 80+ down after 743 days in tier
- 2024-07-25 200+ → 100+ down after 3 days in tier
- 2024-07-22 100+ → 200+ up after 1 days in tier
- 2024-07-21 200+ → 100+ down after 1 days in tier
- 2024-07-20 100+ → 200+ up after 1 days in tier
- 2024-07-19 200+ → 100+ down after 327 days in tier
- 2023-08-27 300+ → 200+ down after 74 days in tier
- 2023-06-14 400+ → 300+ down after 2 days in tier
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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LiteSpeed Cache 7M+ installs · 4.8★ · 1 shared tag B -
Loco Translate 1M+ installs · 4.8★ · 1 shared tag B -
WP Super Cache 1M+ installs · 4.3★ · 1 shared tag A -
Speed Optimizer – The All-In-One Performance-Boosting Plugin 1M+ installs · 4.1★ · 1 shared tag A -
WP Fastest Cache – WordPress Cache Plugin 1M+ installs · 4.9★ · 1 shared tag A -
ManageWP Worker 1M+ installs · 4.6★ · 1 shared tag A
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