Mark McNeece of 365i

365i Performance Optimizer is a comprehensive performance plugin that combines essential speed optimizations into one easy-to-use settings page. Perfect for developers and site owners who want granular control without editing functions.php.
<h4>Why Choose This Plugin?</h4>
<ul>
<li>Elementor-Safe – Automatically detects edit/preview mode and disables optimizations to prevent conflicts.</li>
<li>No External Services – All optimizations run locally. No data sent to third parties. GDPR-friendly.</li>
<li>Granular Control – Toggle each feature independently. Use profiles for quick setup or fine-tune every setting.</li>
<li>WordPress.org Compliant – Follows all coding standards, proper sanitization, and clean uninstall.</li>
</ul>
<h4>Core Performance Features</h4>
<ul>
<li>Speculative Loading – Uses WordPress 6.9+ Speculation Rules API to prefetch likely next pages.</li>
<li>Preconnect & Preload – Resource hints for critical CSS, fonts, and hero images with one-click auto-detection.</li>
<li>Script Deferral – Defer render-blocking scripts while protecting jQuery, Elementor, and core handles.</li>
<li>Cleanup – Remove emoji scripts, embeds, REST links, oEmbed discovery, and disable XML-RPC.</li>
<li>Image Optimization – Set fetchpriority=”high” on LCP candidates and control lazy-loading behavior.</li>
</ul>
<h4>Advanced Features (New in 2.0)</h4>
<ul>
<li>JavaScript Delay – Don’t load non-critical scripts until user interacts (scroll, click, touch, keypress). Dramatically improves initial page load.</li>
<li>Local Google Fonts – Download and serve Google Fonts from your server. Eliminates external requests and ensures GDPR compliance.</li>
<li>Heartbeat Control – Reduce or disable WordPress Heartbeat API to save server resources.</li>
<li>WooCommerce Optimization – Conditionally load cart fragments, styles, and block styles only on shop pages.</li>
<li>Database Cleanup – Remove post revisions, auto-drafts, spam comments, orphaned data, and expired transients. Manual or scheduled.</li>
<li>Query String Removal – Strip ?ver= parameters from static assets for better CDN caching.</li>
</ul>
<h4>Safety & Management</h4>
<ul>
<li>Settings Backups – Automatic snapshots before every save. Keep up to 5 backups with one-click restore.</li>
<li>Configuration Profiles – Safe Mode, Balanced, and Aggressive presets. Save custom profiles for different scenarios.</li>
<li>Import/Export – Transfer settings between sites as JSON. Perfect for agencies and multi-site setups.</li>
<li>Per-Page Overrides – Disable specific optimizations on problem pages via a simple meta box.</li>
<li>Dashboard Widget – Quick overview of active optimizations without leaving the dashboard.</li>
</ul>
<h4>Perfect For</h4>
<ul>
<li>Elementor users wanting safe performance gains</li>
<li>WooCommerce stores needing faster non-shop pages</li>
<li>GDPR-conscious sites requiring local font hosting</li>
<li>Developers managing multiple WordPress sites</li>
<li>Anyone wanting a comprehensive, well-documented performance solution</li>
</ul>

365i Performance Optimizer

Speed up WordPress with speculation rules, script deferral, local Google Fonts, database cleanup, and WooCommerce optimization. Elementor-safe.

Automattic

Mark Jaquith

Mohammad Jangda

Andy Skelton

Yoav Farhi

vnsavage

orensol

Batcache uses Memcached to store and serve rendered pages. It can also optionally cache redirects. It’s not as fast as Donncha’s WP-Super-Cache but it can be used where file-based caching is not practical or not desired. For instance, any site that is run on more than one server should use Batcache because it allows all servers to use the same storage.
Development testing showed a 40x reduction in page generation times: pages generated in 200ms were served from the cache in 5ms. Traffic simulations with Siege demonstrate that WordPress can handle up to twenty times more traffic with Batcache installed.
Batcache is aimed at preventing a flood of traffic from breaking your site. It does this by serving old pages to new users. This reduces the demand on the web server CPU and the database. It also means some people may see a page that is a few minutes old. However this only applies to people who have not interacted with your web site before. Once they have logged in or left a comment they will always get fresh pages.
Possible future features:
<ul>
<li>Comments, edits, and new posts will trigger cache regeneration</li>
<li>Online installation assistance</li>
<li>Configuration page</li>
<li>Stats</li>
</ul>

Batcache

Batcache uses Memcached to store and serve rendered pages.

365i Performance Optimizer vs Batcache