Website Speed Optimization
by Than Minh Tu · Performance
Website Speed Optimization will help your website speed up page loading.
45 health vs 69 average across 547 Performance plugins
Removal-risk signals
53/100Maintenance 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 6+ years — the top precursor to removal once a vulnerability is found.
- Falling behind WordPress. Tested up to WordPress 5.4.19.
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.
Under-optimized
Biggest win: Update recency
To rank higher: Last updated 2262 days ago — ship an update; wp.org decays a listing's search weight after ~180 days.
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
26
now · peak 72
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 “20+”. The real number sits in this band.
Refined from the date this plugin crossed into its current band.
Install history · since 2022-10-04 · 1,379 observations
Details
Growth timeline
Install-band crossings we have observed, and how long each band took to outgrow
- 2026-02-15 30+ → 20+ down after 1 days in band
- 2026-02-14 20+ → 30+ up after 20 days in band
- 2026-01-25 30+ → 20+ down after 1 days in band
- 2026-01-24 20+ → 30+ up after 5 days in band
- 2026-01-19 30+ → 20+ down after 1 days in band
- 2026-01-18 20+ → 30+ up after 18 days in band
- 2025-12-31 30+ → 20+ down after 1 days in band
- 2025-12-30 20+ → 30+ up after 8 days in band
Competes with
The plugins that solve the same job, ranked by shared tags then reach — closest match first
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LiteSpeed Cache 7M+ installs · 4.8★ A -
WP Super Cache 1M+ installs · 4.3★ A -
Speed Optimizer – The All-In-One Performance-Boosting Plugin 1M+ installs · 4.2★ A -
WP Fastest Cache – WordPress Cache Plugin 1M+ installs · 4.9★ A -
WP-Optimize – Cache, Compress images, Minify & Clean database to boost page speed & performance 1M+ installs · 4.8★ A -
Image Optimization – Compress Images and Convert to WebP or AVIF 1M+ installs · 2.0★ C
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