Powered Cache — WordPress Caching Plugin
Powered Cache – Caching and Optimization for WordPress – Easily Improve PageSpeed & Web Vitals Score
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Powered Cache has 3,000+ active installs on WordPress.org and 138,825 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 20, 2026, tested up to WordPress 7.1.
Powered Cache at a glance
Is Powered Cache well maintained?
Features
The feature list from the plugin's own readme on WordPress.org, trimmed to the essentials.
- Critical CSS & Load CSS Asynchronously: Accelerate your page load times by prioritizing essential styles
- Remove Unused CSS: Smartly scans your website to identify and eliminate unused CSS rules, optimizing performance
- Automatic Image Dimension Assignment: Adds missing dimensions to images to improve layout stability and speed
- Link Prefetching: Pre-fetches links to provide a smoother user experience
- Image Optimizer: On the fly image compression, including AVIF/WebP format conversion, to enhance load speed
- Sitemap Preloading: Automatically visits URLs listed in your sitemap to pre-generate cache, ensuring faster load times for your visitors
- Scheduled Database Cleanups: Automates database optimization tasks to maintain peak performance
- Varnish Extension: Enhance your site’s caching capabilities with Varnish support
- Google & Facebook Tracking Extensions: Host external tracking scripts locally, with automatic updates when the external resource changes
- WP-CLI Support: Command-line options available to streamline your workflow
- Top-Notch Premium Support: Get high-quality support for any issues you might encounter
- Ad-Free Plugin Interface: Enjoy an uncluttered, ad-free plugin admin page
Powered Cache reviews and ratings
58 reviews on WordPress.org, with the most recent ones as their authors posted them.
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Worth it
Forget about all the other more popular cache plugins. You have everything you need here: Preload, actually useful advanced options, integration with Cloudflare, actually good performance, and excellent support! I can't add any links here, but I made a comparison between all the cache plugins available, and Powered Cache was objectively the best in all three major environments (Apache, Nginx and OpenLiteSpeed), serving pages in the least amount of time. Keep up the good work!
Gerard Blanco -
A Great Caching Plugin
I highly recommend this plugin. I've tried many other caching plugins and they are all too bloated, overly complicated, or have issues playing nice with other plugins. The fact that object caching via either Memcached or Redis is integrated right into the plugin is a huge plus. The user interface is also clean and simple to use, with the settings logically grouped into different sections. Finally the plugin doesn't constantly try to upsell or nag you into purchasing their Pro version (which by the way is reasonably priced compared to its competitors).One feature request would be an option to move the "Powered Cache" menu into the Settings menu. This would help keep the main menu for my client's sites clean and simple.
MCGWD -
Excellent Plugin and Support
I have tried different plugins however so far I found PoweredCache to be the best for this purpose. Easy to install, easy to use even for those who are not very knowledgeable about these matters. Had a slight problem with all updates taking place and submitted a ticket to support which immediately took action. Mustafa Uysal (from support) went above his responsibilities to help me in fixing this. Thank you for everything, really appreciated.
seydac -
perfect
perfectly work my site in logged in user thanks
torren1112 -
Excellent!
This is without a doubt one of the best caching plugins available. It's the first plugin that I've seen work correctly with logged in users without needing to modify anything. The separate cache actually worked in all my tests. Great work!
leodefaveri -
Excellent extension, even free!!
I discovered this extension recently and I am hooked. very configurable and sufficient for good performance even for free. Try it!!
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Where Powered Cache ranks on WordPress.org
The rankings we track that Powered Cache appears in, and how its position changed over 30 days.
| Ranking | WordPress.org placement | Position | 30 days |
|---|---|---|---|
| Best Caching Plugins | #63 by tag, #21 in search | #33 | – |
Powered Cache alternatives
Plugins that solve the same problem, ranked by how closely they overlap with Powered Cache.
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FastPixel Cache 4,000+ installs · 4.8 -
LiteSpeed Cache 7 million+ installs · 4.8 -
BerqWP 4,000+ installs · 4.2 -
Super Page Cache 70,000+ installs · 4.8 -
NitroPack 90,000+ installs · 4.3
Details
Powered Cache is the most powerful caching and performance suite for WordPress. Easily Improve PageSpeed & Web Vitals Score.
The full description, screenshots and every review live on the WordPress.org page.
Rankings Powered Cache competes in
Tags
- cache
- Optimize
- Page Speed
- performance
- web vitals
More from poweredcache
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- Version
- 3.7.3
- Last updated
- Aug 20, 2026
- First published
- Apr 7, 2017
- Requires WordPress
- 5.7
- Tested up to
- 7.1
- Requires PHP
- 7.4
- Pricing
- Free on WordPress.org
Powered Cache FAQ
What does Powered Cache do?
According to its WordPress.org readme, Powered Cache offers Critical CSS & Load CSS Asynchronously: Accelerate your page load times by prioritizing essential styles, Remove Unused CSS: Smartly scans your website to identify and eliminate unused CSS rules, optimizing performance, Automatic Image Dimension Assignment: Adds missing dimensions to images to improve layout stability and speed, Link Prefetching: Pre-fetches links to provide a smoother user experience and Image Optimizer: On the fly image compression, including AVIF/WebP format conversion, to enhance load speed.
How many active installs does Powered Cache have?
WordPress.org reports 3,000+ active installs for Powered Cache as of September 7, 2026.
Is Powered Cache still maintained?
Yes. The last release was on August 20, 2026 and it is tested up to WordPress 7.1.
Does Powered Cache have good support?
On the WordPress.org forum, 2 of 2 recent support threads for Powered Cache are marked resolved. That is the developer's free support; a paid version usually comes with its own channel.
Is Powered Cache free?
Powered Cache is free to install from WordPress.org. Many plugins also sell a paid version or add-ons.
Where does Powered Cache rank among Caching Plugins?
Powered Cache is #33 in the WordPress.org Caching Plugins ranking.