Mark McNeece of 365i

<p><strong>365i Performance Optimizer</strong> 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.</p>
<h4>Why Choose This Plugin?</h4>
<ul>
<li><strong>Elementor-Safe</strong> – Automatically detects edit/preview mode and disables optimizations to prevent conflicts.</li>
<li><strong>No External Services</strong> – All optimizations run locally. No data sent to third parties. GDPR-friendly.</li>
<li><strong>Granular Control</strong> – Toggle each feature independently. Use profiles for quick setup or fine-tune every setting.</li>
<li><strong>WordPress.org Compliant</strong> – Follows all coding standards, proper sanitization, and clean uninstall.</li>
</ul>
<h4>Core Performance Features</h4>
<ul>
<li><strong>Speculative Loading</strong> – Uses WordPress 6.9+ Speculation Rules API to prefetch likely next pages.</li>
<li><strong>Preconnect & Preload</strong> – Resource hints for critical CSS, fonts, and hero images with one-click auto-detection.</li>
<li><strong>Script Deferral</strong> – Defer render-blocking scripts while protecting jQuery, Elementor, and core handles.</li>
<li><strong>Cleanup</strong> – Remove emoji scripts, embeds, REST links, oEmbed discovery, and disable XML-RPC.</li>
<li><strong>Image Optimization</strong> – Set fetchpriority=”high” on LCP candidates and control lazy-loading behavior.</li>
</ul>
<h4>Advanced Features (New in 2.0)</h4>
<ul>
<li><strong>JavaScript Delay</strong> – Don’t load non-critical scripts until user interacts (scroll, click, touch, keypress). Dramatically improves initial page load.</li>
<li><strong>Local Google Fonts</strong> – Download and serve Google Fonts from your server. Eliminates external requests and ensures GDPR compliance.</li>
<li><strong>Heartbeat Control</strong> – Reduce or disable WordPress Heartbeat API to save server resources.</li>
<li><strong>WooCommerce Optimization</strong> – Conditionally load cart fragments, styles, and block styles only on shop pages.</li>
<li><strong>Database Cleanup</strong> – Remove post revisions, auto-drafts, spam comments, orphaned data, and expired transients. Manual or scheduled.</li>
<li><strong>Query String Removal</strong> – Strip ?ver= parameters from static assets for better CDN caching.</li>
</ul>
<h4>Safety & Management</h4>
<ul>
<li><strong>Settings Backups</strong> – Automatic snapshots before every save. Keep up to 5 backups with one-click restore.</li>
<li><strong>Configuration Profiles</strong> – Safe Mode, Balanced, and Aggressive presets. Save custom profiles for different scenarios.</li>
<li><strong>Import/Export</strong> – Transfer settings between sites as JSON. Perfect for agencies and multi-site setups.</li>
<li><strong>Per-Page Overrides</strong> – Disable specific optimizations on problem pages via a simple meta box.</li>
<li><strong>Dashboard Widget</strong> – 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.

Darko G.

MegaOptim

<p><strong>Rapid Cache</strong> is a fork of <em>Comet Cache</em> that focuses on new features, stability and simplicity.</p>
<p>If you care about the speed of your site, Rapid Cache is one of those plugins that you absolutely MUST have installed! 🤓</p>
<p>Rapid Cache takes a real-time snapshot (building a cache) of every Page, Post, Category, Link, etc. These snapshots are then stored (cached) intuitively, so they can be referenced later, in order to save all of that processing time that has been dragging your site down and costing you money.</p>
<p>The plugin uses configuration options that you select from the options panel. See: <strong>Rapid Cache -› Options</strong> in your Dashboard. Once a file has been cached, Rapid Cache uses advanced techniques that allow it to recognize when it should and should not serve a cached version of the file.</p>
<p>By default, Rapid Cache does not serve cached pages to users who are logged in, or to users who have left comments recently. Rapid Cache also excludes administrative pages, login pages, POST/PUT/DELETE/GET(w/ query string) requests and/or CLI processes.</p>
<p>If you need more details, check our <a href="https://github.com/megaoptim/rapid-cache/wiki/" rel="nofollow ugc">Wiki</a></p>
<h4>Features</h4>
<ul>
<li>SIMPLE and well-documented (just enable and you’re all set).</li>
<li>Options to control the automatic cache clearing behavior for Home and Posts Page, Author Page, Category, Tag, and Custom Term Archives, Custom Post Type Archives, RSS/RDF/ATOM Feeds, and XML Sitemaps.</li>
<li>URI exclusion patterns (now supporting wildcards too).</li>
<li>User-Agent exclusion patterns (now supporting wildcards too).</li>
<li>HTTP referrer exclusion patterns (now supporting wildcards too).</li>
<li>The ability to set an automatic expiration time for cache files.</li>
<li>Client-Side Caching (to allow double-caching in the client browser).</li>
<li>Caching for 404 requests to reduce the impact of those on the server.</li>
<li>Feed Caching (RSS, RDF, and Atom Feed caching).</li>
<li>Cache or ignore URLs that contain query strings (GET Requests).</li>
<li>Apache Optimizations to enable GZIP Compression.</li>
<li>WP-CLI Compatibility.</li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/megaoptim/rapid-cache/wiki/Developer-Hooks" rel="nofollow ugc">Actions/filters</a> and <a href="https://github.com/megaoptim/rapid-cache/wiki/Clearing-the-Cache-Dynamically" rel="nofollow ugc">PHP API</a> for developers</li>
</ul>
<h4>Requirements</h4>
<p>In addition to the <a href="https://wordpress.org/about/requirements/" rel="ugc">WordPress Requirements</a>, Rapid Cache requires the following minimum versions:</p>
<ul>
<li>At least PHP 5.4 (we recommend PHP 7.2+)</li>
<li>Web server (Apache, NGINX, Litespeed, other)</li>
</ul>
<h4>License</h4>
<p>Copyright © 2020 <a href="https://megaoptim.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">MegaOptim</a><br />
Copyright © 2016 WebSharks, Inc (coded in the USA)</p>
<p>Released under the terms of the <a href="http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.html" rel="nofollow ugc">GNU General Public License</a>.</p>


Rapid Cache

Disclaimer: I have a lifetime licence of Comet Cache, which actually when I bought the license it was called Zen Cache, or the name before that... So Comet Cache Pro out of the box, with very little fiddling makes my sites running on crappy Godaddy shared hosting from loading in 2-3 seconds time, to load almost instantly, to the point that people ask me if I'm using a VPS or a dedicated server... The only drawback that it has (and I tried this just once many years ago), the caching did not work on my WAMP localserver running on a Win. 7 Pro machine.

After downloading and installing Rapid Cache on the same localhost today, I was pleasantly surprised that it works on my localserver, not that I need to have such a plugin in this environment, but it will be good for testing, benchmarking, etc... Before this plugin was activated, my pageloads were 0.6 - 0.7 seconds, with a visible tiny "pause" between page loads. Once I activated and turned the caching on in this plugin, and without making ANY configuration changes, the page loads are almost instantaneous, with no more visible lagging. 

I did not do any live testing on a really slow server yet, but if the results are similar to my Comet Cache Pro plugin, this plugin would speed up any site that normally would load under 2-3 seconds to almost no lag time... hence my 5 star rating.

I don't really need this plugin, but it's REALLY nice to have an excellent replacement in case Comet Cache Pro goes away, or stops working for one reason or another...

The only thing missing from this plugin that exists in the Comet Cache plugin (that I can see right away), is the ability to import/export the settings. In my case, because I don't mess with too many of the settings, it's not the end of the world. In the past I have played with other cache plugin, that one will need a doctorate degree and 2 weeks of playing around just to make it sort of work - not the case here...

This is my honest review of the Rapid Cache plugin after using it for about 10 minutes or so !

Thank you.   

Good out of the box.

Rapid Cache is advanced WordPress caching plugin inspired by simplicity that will make your site blazing fast!

365i Performance Optimizer vs Rapid Cache