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PhastPress

by Albert Peschar · WordPress.org page

v3.12 Tested up to WP 7.1 PHP 7.3+

PhastPress has 10,000+ active installs on WordPress.org and 533,773 downloads all time. We have tracked it since September 4, 2026; download trends appear after 30 days of data. The last update was on August 13, 2026, tested up to WordPress 7.1.

PhastPress at a glance

Active installs
10,000+
Total downloads
533,773
Downloads, last 30 days
–
available after 30 days of tracking
30-day growth
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tracking since September 4, 2026

Is PhastPress well maintained?

Support threads resolved
No open threads
nothing waiting on the WordPress.org forum
WordPress compatibility
Current
tested up to WordPress 7.1, the current release is 7.1
One-star reviews
1%
1 of 99 reviews on WordPress.org

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.

All reviews
4.9 out of 5

99 reviews

5★
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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

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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

More from Albert Peschar

Version
3.12
Last updated
Aug 13, 2026
First published
Dec 28, 2017
Requires WordPress
6.2
Tested up to
7.1
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 September 7, 2026.

Is PhastPress still maintained?

Yes. The last release was on August 13, 2026 and it is tested up to WordPress 7.1.

Is PhastPress free?

PhastPress is free to install from WordPress.org. Many plugins also sell a paid version or add-ons.