10 Best PhastPress Alternatives in 2026
Updated September 7, 2026 · Ranked by how closely each plugin matches, from WordPress.org data · How this works
PhastPress has 10,000+ active installs on WordPress.org. These 10 plugins share its category or its tags on WordPress.org, are actively maintained, and each has at least 100 active installs. They are ordered by how closely they match, not by our opinion.
The 10 closest alternatives to PhastPress
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Insights from Google PageSpeed
Closest match4.8 (28) 10,000+ active installsUse Insights from Google PageSpeed to increase your sites performance, your search engine ranking, and your visitors browsing experience.
Shares the Page Speed, pagespeed insights tags on WordPress.org. A similar number of installs, no update since July 7, 2024.
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Speed Booster Pack ⚡ PageSpeed Optimization Suite
4.3 (186) 9,000+ active installsPageSpeed optimization is vital for SEO: A faster website equals better conversions. Optimize your Core Web Vitals metrics (CLS, LCP, TBT) today!
Shares the optimization, speed tags on WordPress.org. A similar number of installs, rated 4.3 against 4.9, last updated May 8, 2026.
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5.0 (37) 2,000+ active installsPage cache, browser cache, defer JS, critical CSS, lazy load and WordPress cleanup. Speed up your site and disable the bloat you do not need.
Shares the optimization, speed tags on WordPress.org. About a quarter of the installs, last updated 10 days ago.
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4.7 (32) 4,000+ active installsBenchmark your hosting server CPU, memory and disk, compare with others using simple Wordpress plugin.
Shares the optimization, speed tags on WordPress.org. About a third of the installs, last updated 18 days ago.
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Flying Pages: Preload Pages for Faster Navigation & Improved User Experience
4.9 (79) 20,000+ active installsPreload pages intelligently to boost site speed and enhance user experience by loading pages before users click, ensuring instant page transitions.
Shares the optimization, speed tags on WordPress.org. About 2 times the installs, last updated May 20, 2026.
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TinyPNG – JPEG, PNG & WebP image compression
4.5 (176) 100,000+ active installsSpeed up your website. Optimize your JPEG, PNG, and WebP images automatically with TinyPNG.
Shares the Page Speed tag on WordPress.org. About 10 times the installs, rated 4.5 against 4.9, last updated 13 days ago.
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Asset CleanUp: Page Speed Booster
4.9 (1,562) 100,000+ active installsSpeed up your WordPress site by unloading unnecessary CSS and JavaScript, reducing page bloat, and managing your own Critical CSS per page type.
Shares the Page Speed tag on WordPress.org. About 10 times the installs, last updated 16 days ago.
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Powered Cache – Caching and Optimization for WordPress – Easily Improve PageSpeed & Web Vitals Score
4.8 (58) 3,000+ active installsPowered Cache is the most powerful caching and performance suite for WordPress. Easily Improve PageSpeed & Web Vitals Score.
Shares the Page Speed tag on WordPress.org. About a third of the installs, rated 4.8 against 4.9, last updated 18 days ago.
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4.1 (42) 9,000+ active installsSpeed up WordPress with browser caching. Automatically adds expiry headers for images, CSS, JS & fonts via .htaccess Zero config (Apache only)
Shares the Page Speed tag on WordPress.org. A similar number of installs, last updated July 8, 2026.
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NitroPack – Performance, Page Speed & Cache Plugin for Core Web Vitals, CDN & Image Optimization
4.3 (311) 90,000+ active installsBoost site speed and performance with an all-in-one cache and speed optimization plugin. Pass Core Web Vitals with CDN, image optimization, lazy loadi …
Shares the Page Speed tag on WordPress.org. About 9 times the installs, rated 4.3 against 4.9, last updated 14 days ago.
Switching from PhastPress: common questions
What is the best alternative to PhastPress?
Insights from Google PageSpeed is the closest match: it shares the same WordPress.org tags and has 10,000+ active installs with a 4.8 out of 5 rating.
Which PhastPress alternative has the most users?
TinyPNG, with 100,000+ active installs reported by WordPress.org.
Which PhastPress alternative is rated highest?
Asset CleanUp, rated 4.9 out of 5 by 1,562 reviewers. Only plugins with at least 50 reviews are counted.
Are these PhastPress alternatives free?
Every plugin listed here is free to install from WordPress.org. Where WordPress.org marks a plugin as commercial, the developer also sells a paid version or add-ons, and that is shown on each plugin.
How are alternatives chosen?
Automatically, from WordPress.org data: plugins that share a category top 10 with PhastPress score highest, then plugins that appear in the same WordPress.org rankings, then plugins with the same tags, weighted so rare tags count more than common ones. Plugins by the same author and plugins rated under 4.0 are left out.
How we choose these alternatives
Nothing on this page is picked by hand. Every day we walk the whole WordPress.org directory, then score every plugin against PhastPress on three signals: sharing a category top 10 counts most, then appearing in the same WordPress.org rankings, then carrying the same tags, with rare tags counting for more than common ones like "wordpress". Plugins by the same author are excluded, so an author's own add-ons cannot fill the list, and so is anything rated below 4.0 or with fewer than 100 active installs. The ten highest scores are what you see, in that order. Full methodology.
The bottom line
Insights from Google PageSpeed is the closest match to PhastPress by the data we track, and TinyPNG has the widest reach with 100,000+ active installs. DietPress shipped the most recent release, on August 28, 2026. The list is rebuilt every day from WordPress.org, so a plugin that stops being maintained drops out on its own.
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One email a week, built from the same daily snapshots these rankings come from: the plugins that climbed, what launched, and one ranking worth a look.