10 Best Speed Up Alternatives in 2026
Updated September 7, 2026 · Ranked by how closely each plugin matches, from WordPress.org data · How this works
Speed Up has 1,000+ 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 Speed Up
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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, performance tags on WordPress.org. About 10 times the installs, no update since July 7, 2024.
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4.7 (28) 2,000+ active installsSpeed up your posts by lazy-loading the WordPress comments on scroll or click. Works with classic and block themes.
Shares the Page Speed, performance tags on WordPress.org. About 2 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, performance tags on WordPress.org. About 3 times the installs, last updated 18 days ago.
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4.9 (28) 200+ active installsMake your site fast. Page caching, CSS/JS/HTML optimization, modern images, and Core Web Vitals tools in one simple plugin.
Shares the Page Speed, performance tags on WordPress.org. About a quarter of the installs, last updated 19 days ago.
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4.7 (102) 70,000+ active installsAsync Javascript lets you add 'async' or 'defer' attribute to scripts to exclude to help increase the performance of your WordPress website.
Shares the performance, render blocking tags on WordPress.org. About 70 times the installs, no update since June 22, 2023.
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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, performance tags on WordPress.org. About 100 times the installs, last updated 13 days ago.
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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, performance tags on WordPress.org. About 90 times the installs, last updated 14 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. About 9 times the installs, last updated July 8, 2026.
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4.9 (99) 10,000+ active installsPhastPress automatically optimizes your site for the best possible performance.
Shares the Page Speed tag on WordPress.org. About 10 times the installs, last updated 25 days ago.
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AMP WP – Google AMP For WordPress
4.5 (55) 600+ active installsThe most complete free AMP plugin for WordPress. Supercharge mobile performance with Google Accelerated Mobile Pages, no coding required.
Shares the Page Speed tag on WordPress.org. About half the installs, last updated June 15, 2026.
Switching from Speed Up: common questions
What is the best alternative to Speed Up?
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 Speed Up alternative has the most users?
TinyPNG, with 100,000+ active installs reported by WordPress.org.
Which Speed Up alternative is rated highest?
PhastPress, rated 4.9 out of 5 by 99 reviewers. Only plugins with at least 50 reviews are counted.
Are these Speed Up 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 Speed Up 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 Speed Up 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 Speed Up by the data we track, and TinyPNG has the widest reach with 100,000+ active installs. TinyPNG shipped the most recent release, on August 25, 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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