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Performance / Caching

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Active installs

900K+

Rating

4.4 ★

Version

2.10.5

Last updated

2026-08-18

WP.org data 1h ago · research never · nothing refreshes on its own.

Feature list: Performance / Caching

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Feature	Status	Source
Page caching Full-page HTML cache needs check	Yes Partial No —	open ↗
Object caching Redis/Memcached backed object cache needs check	Yes Partial No —	open ↗
Browser caching headers Cache-Control and expiry header control needs check	Yes Partial No —	open ↗
CSS & JS minification Minify static assets needs check	Yes Partial No —	open ↗
CSS & JS combination Combine files to cut requests	Yes Partial No —
Critical CSS / unused CSS removal Inline above-the-fold CSS and strip the rest needs check	Yes Partial No —	open ↗
Defer & delay JavaScript Defer parsing and delay until interaction needs check	Yes Partial No —	open ↗
Image lazy loading Defer offscreen images and iframes needs check	Yes Partial No —	open ↗
Image optimisation / WebP Compress and serve next-gen image formats needs check	Yes Partial No —	open ↗
CDN integration Rewrite assets to a CDN origin needs check	Yes Partial No —	open ↗
Database cleanup Remove revisions, transients and overhead	Yes Partial No —
Preloading / cache warmup Crawl the site to pre-build the cache needs check	Yes Partial No —	open ↗
Mobile-specific cache Separate cache bucket for mobile	Yes Partial No —
Cache exclusions & rules Per-URL, cookie and query-string rules needs check	Yes Partial No —	open ↗
Performance reporting Built-in speed or Core Web Vitals reporting needs check	Yes Partial No —	open ↗
AI-assisted optimisation AI recommendations or automatic tuning	Yes Partial No —

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