Description
WPSpeed is a powerful and complete WordPress performance plugin built to achieve the highest Google PageSpeed scores — including 100 on mobile — while improving Core Web Vitals (LCP, CLS, INP) and dramatically reducing loading times.
Using an innovative system that generates lightweight HTML copies of your pages and bypasses WordPress execution, WPSpeed delivers static, cached output for maximum speed. Combined with automatic optimization, image compression, lazy loading, minification, and advanced resource control, WPSpeed becomes an all-in-one solution that can fully replace multiple optimization plugins.
👉 Unlike traditional caching plugins, WPSpeed generates lightweight static HTML versions that bypass WordPress execution entirely, reducing TTFB to near-zero.
WPSpeed is the easiest plugin to speed up your WordPress website being capable to find the optimal configuration automatically and integrating the Google PageSpeed test.
WPSpeed is ideal for users searching for:
- fast WordPress plugin to improve front-end and back-end performance
- improve TTFB WordPress (reduce Time To First Byte)
- reduce server load on shared hosting or high-traffic sites
- fix INP (Interaction to Next Paint) and other Core Web Vitals issues
- optimize Elementor performance and reduce heavy builder scripts
- WordPress performance optimization
- cache plugin with static HTML caching
- mobile speed optimization (reach 100/100 PageSpeed)
- image optimization with WebP/AVIF
- minify and combine JavaScript/CSS
- lazy load images, iframes and heavy HTML elements
You can watch the impressive video and check the demo site:
🚀 Try WPSpeed Live on WordPress Playground 🚀
FREE vs PRO
⚠️ FREE version limitations:
– Only the homepage is optimized
– Only 1 page can use full optimization
Upgrade to the PRO version to:
- Optimize all pages
- Enable static HTML caching (.htaccess caching)
- Boost TTFB dramatically
- Unlock full image optimization rules
- Remove all limitations
- Receive expert on-site support
Purchase a PRO license:
Interested in our WordPress Speed Performance Service? Contact us now at [email protected] by providing an admin account to our expertise team for a free test installation on your website and performance optimization.
🚀 Key Features
🔥 Adaptive Contents™
Generate a lightweight version of your website that dramatically increases PageSpeed scores while preserving full functionality.
⚡ Instant Page™
Ultra-fast navigation using just-in-time preloading. Loads the next page before the user even clicks.
🧠 Auto Configuration + Integrated PageSpeed Test
WPSpeed finds optimal settings automatically and integrates Google PageSpeed Insights directly in the plugin.
🏎 Static HTML Cache
Serve pages as static HTML and bypass WordPress execution for maximum performance and extremely low TTFB.
🧹 Minify JS, CSS & HTML
Reduce file size, remove whitespace, optimize delivery and combine multiple assets into fewer requests.
🎯 Above-the-Fold CSS Extraction
Extract critical CSS and load the rest asynchronously to eliminate render-blocking resources.
📦 Defer / Async / Preload
Advanced control of CSS, JS and Web Fonts to improve LCP and reduce blocking time.
🖼 Image Optimization (WebP / AVIF / Lossless)
- Resize, compress and optimize large images
- Convert images to next-gen formats (WebP + AVIF)
- Create srcset automatically
- Optimize background images
💤 Lazy Load (Images, Iframes, HTML Elements)
Load heavy content only when necessary to fix LCP and improve scroll performance.
🗂 Resource Control
Remove unused CSS, JS and fonts.
Rewrite URLs to CDN automatically.
🔧 Htaccess Optimization
Apply browser caching, compression and more via automatic rules.
🧱 DOM Reduction
Remove unnecessary DOM elements and load heavy blocks asynchronously.
🌐 HTTP/2 Optimizations
Support for server push and resource preload.
🛡 Conflict Management
Full exclusions system for scripts and styles to resolve issues easily.
WPSpeed functionalities include:
•Scripts minification: Javascript can be minified to reduce the total scripts size and save bandwidth
•Stylesheets minification: CSS can be minified to reduce the total CSS size, save bandwidth and extract the ‘Above-the-fold’ CSS
•HTML minification: The HTML source code can be minified to reduce the total page size and save bandwidth
•Combine multiple JS and CSS files: Javascript and CSS can be combined in single files to minimize the HTTP request overhead
•Adaptive Contents™: this technology makes it possible to generate a lightweight version of the website to raise up the page speed score without losing website functionalities
•Instant Page technology™: Instant Page uses just-in-time preloading. This feature, compatible with both desktop and mobile devices, preloads a page right before a user clicks on it
•Auto configuration and integrated Google PageSpeed: WPSpeed is capable to find the optimal configuration automatically and integrates the Google PageSpeed test
•Page cache: Integrated and optimized technology for page caching to avoid heavy requests to your server and database. The PRO version supports the .htaccess page caching so that pages are served up as static HTML completely bypassing the execution of WordPress and dramatically increases performance and reducing the TTFB
•Defer and preload of assets: CSS, JS and Web Fonts can be loaded in defer, async or preload mode
•Lazy-load images: Images and iframes that are out of view can be lazy-loaded only when the user scrolls down the page to display them
•Lazy-load HTML elements: Heavy HTML elements that slow down the LCP can be easily lazy-loaded
•Images optimization: Large images can be rescaled, resized and optimized on the fly to dramatically reduce the page size and bandwidth
•Optimization of background images: WPSpeed is capable to optimize also images that are set as a background through HTML and CSS styles
•Lossless optimization: Large images in PNG and JPG format can be optimized on the fly using a lossless algorithm
•Srcset creation for images: WPSpeed is capable to automatically create an image srcset using up to 4 differently-sized images for various resolutions
•Images conversion to WebP and AVIF: Images can be converted in realtime to the WebP and AVIF next generation format
•Assets removal: It’s possible to remove CSS/JS files and Fonts to avoid the loading of unnecessary resources
•Htaccess optimization: A series of optimizations can be applied to the htaccess file in order to leverage the browser caching
•CSS extraction: WPSpeed is capable to extract basic CSS styles and load them above the fold to avoid render blocking resources
•DOM tree reduction: Excessive DOM elements can be automatically removed and loaded asynchronously
•Combine images: It’s possible to generate a single container image for multiple backgrounds applied through CSS
•HTTP/2 optimizations: WPSpeed works with HTTP/2 compatible servers to enable server push
•CDN support: Links for all assets can be automatically rewritten to point to your CDN domain
•Fix conflicts easily: WPSpeed integrates a powerful exclusions system to fix conflicts due to minification of scripts
Documentation
Download and read the PDF documentation or visit our FAQ page on the main plugin site for more information on how the plugin works and how to configure it to improve your scores for Google PageSpeed Insights and GTMetrix. If you have a license for the PRO version you can contact us for on site support at [email protected]
Advanced Features and Premium Support
If you need assistance on your website by our expertise team to find optmimal settings of WPSpeed and reach the maximum score, please purchase a license and contact us at [email protected] to get on site service.
Screenshots
Installation
Upload the WPSpeed plugin to your blog. Activate it, then configure settings to reach the highest score. If you need an expertise team to configure the plugin or solve problems, please purchase a PRO license and contact us at [email protected]
FAQ
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Does WPSpeed really help reach 100/100 on PageSpeed?
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Yes. WPSpeed uses Adaptive Contents™ and static HTML caching which allow many websites to reach 100 on mobile tests when configured properly.
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Does it improve Core Web Vitals?
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Yes. WPSpeed optimizes LCP, CLS, FID/INP, TTFB, preload, lazy load and asset delivery.
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Does WPSpeed work with Elementor, Divi, WooCommerce and any theme?
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Yes. WPSpeed works with any builder or theme and is fully compatible with WooCommerce.
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Does it replace my current caching plugin?
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Yes. WPSpeed includes an advanced static caching system and can replace all other cache plugins.
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Will it break my site?
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WPSpeed includes a full exclusions manager to avoid conflicts. Almost all issues can be fixed in seconds.
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Can I optimize only the homepage in the FREE version?
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Yes. Upgrade to PRO to optimize the entire website.
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Does it support AVIF and WebP?
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Yes. WPSpeed automatically converts images to WebP and AVIF next-gen formats (PRO).
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Contributors & Developers
“WPSpeed – WordPress Speed, Cache & Performance Optimization (Core Web Vitals, PageSpeed 100)” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin.
ContributorsInterested in development?
Browse the code, check out the SVN repository, or subscribe to the development log by RSS.
Changelog
2.6.8 FREE / 2.8 PRO DOWNLOAD -> https://storejextensions.org/extensions/wpspeed.html
- New interface
- Added new option to persists optimized images
- Added new option to optimize images
2.6.7 FREE / 2.7 PRO DOWNLOAD -> https://storejextensions.org/extensions/wpspeed.html
- Added feature to defer combined CSS
- Added feature to purge server cache
- Added support to Ubersuggest
2.6
- Added ‘Above-the-fold’ CSS extraction
2.5
- Added support to convert images to the new AVIF format (PRO version only)
- Improved management of the images optimization
2.4
- Extended support for adaptive contents
2.3
- Added the clear cache global button
- Improvements to the Images Optimizations
- Improvements to the Adaptive contents
- Bugs fix for the FREE version and multilanguage
2.2
- Added auto configuration and pagespeed test
2.1.1
- First public release on WordPress plugins repository for the FREE and PRO version.







