PhastPress
by Albert Peschar · WordPress.org page
PhastPress has 10,000+ active installs on WordPress.org and 537,757 downloads all time. It was downloaded 2,620 times in the last 30 days. The last update was on August 13, 2026, tested up to WordPress 7.1.3.
PhastPress at a glance
Is PhastPress well maintained?
Features
The feature list from the plugin's own readme on WordPress.org, trimmed to the essentials.
- Phast loads all scripts on your page asynchronously and in a single request, while maintaining full compatibility with legacy scripts, due to our custom script…
- Phast proxies external scripts to extend their cache lifetime
- Phast inlines critical CSS automatically by comparing the rules in your stylesheets with the elements on your page
- Phast loads non-critical CSS asynchronously and in a single request
- Phast inlines Google Fonts CSS
- Phast lazily loads IFrames to prioritize the main page load
PhastPress reviews and ratings
99 reviews on WordPress.org, with the most recent ones as their authors posted them.
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Almost great
Solid plugin, but if it could allow the exclusion of certain JavaScript assets, then I'd rate this a 5 stars
sgpro -
Best page speed optimization plugin for static assets
Best page speed optimization plugin for static assets if you don't have a LightSpeed Server. If you run on Nginx/Apache then install this plugin and you will have better page speed.
iontulburedev -
Amazing plug-in in combo with WP Meteor!
I once saw a video from a YouTuber called Web Squadron. He adviced to use Phastpress and WP Meteor to use to optimize WordPress. I’ve been using WP Rocket for a while now. It did improve the speed of our site but all those options were just too hard to perfectly set up. Phastpress is just a really simple and a great plug-in. It improves the Pagespeed score a good bit and in combination with WP Meteor, it’s even better! I myself use EWWW Image optimizer to optimize and lazyload all my images. I can easily disable the lazy load option in Phastpress and it seems to be perfectly compatible with all sort of plugins. It works great with Elementor (and WooCommerce, ARMember, ACF, etc) and I haven’t seen any quirks yet. Thank you for creating this great FREE plug-in!
Toine Rademacher -
Fast, Simple, Accurate and great Service
This plugin is simple to setup but it very effective in optimizing the website. The number of requests for a page when way down. Initially there were some errors caused by CSS Optimizations. Albert quickly responded within a few hours, even over the weekend, and changed a setting to fix the problem. I was made of aware of this plugin by Imran "How to Boost Page Speed Optimization WordPress for FREE in 2023 "
johns1951 -
Best Optimization Pluigin
Over the years, I think I've tried just about every optimization plugin out there, Including WP Rocket, Autoptimize, etc. PhastPress is better than all of them, and it's free. I'd be happy to pay for this plugin; it's that good. Big thanks to Albert :))
jake79 -
Great plugin.
Very simple and powerful.
andrebeltrame
Download and install history
4,118 downloads over the last 48 days. Snapshots taken daily from WordPress.org.
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Details
PhastPress automatically optimizes your site for the best possible performance.
The full description, screenshots and every review live on the WordPress.org page.
Tags
- optimisation
- optimization
- Page Speed
- pagespeed insights
- speed
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- Version
- 3.12
- Last updated
- Aug 13, 2026
- First published
- Dec 28, 2017
- Requires WordPress
- 6.2
- Tested up to
- 7.1.3
- Requires PHP
- 7.3
- Pricing
- Free on WordPress.org
PhastPress FAQ
What does PhastPress do?
According to its WordPress.org readme, PhastPress offers Phast loads all scripts on your page asynchronously and in a single request, while maintaining full compatibility with legacy scripts, due to our custom script, Phast proxies external scripts to extend their cache lifetime, Phast inlines critical CSS automatically by comparing the rules in your stylesheets with the elements on your page, Phast loads non-critical CSS asynchronously and in a single request and Phast inlines Google Fonts CSS.
How many active installs does PhastPress have?
WordPress.org reports 10,000+ active installs for PhastPress as of October 22, 2026.
Is PhastPress still maintained?
Yes. The last release was on August 13, 2026 and it is tested up to WordPress 7.1.3.
Is PhastPress free?
PhastPress is free to install from WordPress.org. Many plugins also sell a paid version or add-ons.