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WPDeveloper

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Your visitors decide to stay or leave in under 3 seconds. xSpeed makes sure they stay.
Most caching plugins bury you in settings, charts, and upgrade popups. xSpeed does the opposite — install it, flip one switch, and your site loads faster. No bloat, no upsells nagging you, no PhD required.
Built by the team at WPDeveloper — trusted by over 7 million WordPress users worldwide.
<h4>What Does xSpeed Do?</h4>
xSpeed is a full-site performance plugin. It caches your pages, shrinks your code, compresses your files, and serves everything as fast as your server physically can — including an AI-powered audit that tells you exactly what’s slowing your site down.
The result: pages that load in milliseconds, not seconds. Better Google PageSpeed scores. Happier visitors. Better SEO rankings.
<h4>The Speed Advantage No Other Free Plugin Offers</h4>
When xSpeed caches a page, it doesn’t just save it — it serves it directly from the server, bypassing PHP entirely.
That means:
<ul>
<li>With xSpeed static cache: 5–15ms response time</li>
<li>Without it (PHP-served cache): ~85ms response time</li>
</ul>
That’s up to 17× faster page delivery on cache hits. No other free caching plugin does this across Apache, nginx, and LiteSpeed automatically.
<h4>Features at a Glance</h4>
Page Caching
Your pages are saved as static HTML files and served instantly to visitors — before WordPress even loads. The cache rebuilds itself automatically whenever you publish a post, switch themes, or update a plugin. You never have to think about it.
<ul>
<li>Static-file rewrite path (bypasses PHP entirely — 5–15ms TTFB)</li>
<li>Auto-purge on publish, update, comment, theme change</li>
<li>One-click cache purge from the admin bar</li>
<li>Exclude specific URLs (e.g. <code>/cart</code>, <code>/checkout</code>, <code>/my-account</code>)</li>
<li>Set your own cache expiry (1–720 hours)</li>
<li>Separate mobile cache for phone and tablet visitors</li>
<li>Per-post cache rules — custom expiry or disable caching for individual posts</li>
</ul>
Code Minification
Strips all the unnecessary whitespace, comments, and characters from your HTML, CSS, and JavaScript without breaking anything.
<ul>
<li>Minify HTML, CSS, and JavaScript</li>
<li>Combine CSS and JS files to reduce HTTP requests</li>
<li>Defer or delay JavaScript so it doesn’t block page rendering</li>
<li>Async CSS loading</li>
<li>Removes <code>?ver=</code> query strings from asset URLs</li>
<li>Safe-minify: automatically skips already-minified files and falls back if anything looks off</li>
</ul>
GZIP Compression
Makes every file your server sends smaller — so browsers download them faster.
<ul>
<li>Auto-configures GZIP on Apache and LiteSpeed</li>
<li>Shows a ready-to-paste config snippet for nginx and IIS</li>
<li>Detects if your server already has GZIP active — no double-configuration</li>
</ul>
Lazy Load
Images, videos, and iframes load only when a visitor scrolls to them — not all at once on page load.
<ul>
<li>Lazy load images, iframes, and videos</li>
<li>Automatic CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift) fix so your layout doesn’t jump</li>
</ul>
Fonts Optimization
Web fonts are one of the most common causes of slow-loading pages.
<ul>
<li>Adds <code>font-display: swap</code> so text is visible immediately while fonts load</li>
<li>Preloads above-the-fold font files for instant rendering</li>
<li>Removes the blank-text flash caused by slow Google Fonts responses</li>
</ul>
Browser Cache
Tells browsers to remember your static files (images, CSS, JS) so returning visitors load your site even faster.
<ul>
<li>Sets proper <code>Cache-Control</code> and <code>Expires</code> headers</li>
<li>Works automatically — no manual configuration needed</li>
</ul>
Cache Preloader
Warms up your cache automatically so the very first visitor after a purge still gets a fast page.
<ul>
<li>Sitemap-driven cache warmer</li>
<li>Auto-warms cache when you publish or update content</li>
</ul>
Object Cache (Redis / Memcached)
Speed up database-heavy WordPress installs with server-side object caching.
<ul>
<li>Connect Redis or Memcached in seconds</li>
<li>View status and flush cache from the dashboard</li>
</ul>
CDN Support
Serve your static files from a CDN for faster global delivery.
<ul>
<li>Pull-zone URL rewriting for any CDN provider</li>
<li>Built-in Cloudflare integration: connect your zone, auto-purge on publish, toggle dev mode</li>
</ul>
Database Optimization
A bloated database slows down every page load. xSpeed keeps yours clean.
<ul>
<li>Optimize database tables</li>
<li>Remove post revisions, spam, trash, transients, and orphaned meta</li>
<li>Schedule automatic cleanup so it runs on autopilot</li>
</ul>
Disable Bloat
Turn off WordPress features you don’t use — each one is a request your server doesn’t have to make.
<ul>
<li>Disable dashicons on the frontend</li>
<li>Remove oEmbed, RSS feeds, XML-RPC, jQuery Migrate, REST API authentication headers</li>
</ul>
AI-Powered Site Audit (Pro)
xSpeed Pro scans your specific site and tells you exactly which performance features will help the most — with severity ratings and concrete reasons, not generic advice.
<h4>Smart Enough to Stay Out of Trouble</h4>
xSpeed handles the edge cases other plugins miss:
<ul>
<li>Multisite ready — each site in the network gets its own cache and settings.</li>
<li>LiteSpeed server? — xSpeed detects LiteSpeed Cache’s server module and steps back to avoid conflicts.</li>
<li>WooCommerce? — logged-in customers and checkout pages are never cached.</li>
<li>WordPress Site Health — xSpeed adds its own health check under Tools → Site Health so you always know your cache config is working correctly.</li>
<li>Works on any server — Apache, nginx, LiteSpeed, IIS, and any standard PHP host.</li>
</ul>
<h4>Designed for Everyone</h4>
Non-technical users: A 3-step setup wizard walks you through first-time configuration in under 2 minutes. Settings auto-save — there’s no Save button to forget.
Developers: REST API at <code>/wp-json/xspeed/v1/</code>, developer filters (<code>xspeed_skip_minify</code>, <code>xspeed_cache_skip_for_post</code>, <code>xspeed_cache_expiry_for_post</code>), <code>WP_DEBUG</code> awareness, and a React 18 + TypeScript admin UI under 80 KB gzipped.
Agencies: Use the <code>xspeed_branding</code> filter to white-label the dashboard for clients.
<h4>Completely Private</h4>
xSpeed never collects personal data, stores IP addresses, uses tracking cookies, or contacts any third-party server. Every optimization runs locally on your server. The only external request it makes is a quick check to your own site’s home URL to confirm GZIP is active — and even that is rate-limited to once per hour. (See “External services” below.)
<h4>Backed By a Team You Trust</h4>
xSpeed is developed by the trusted team at WPDeveloper, a leading WordPress marketplace used and loved by millions of users.
<h4>Loved xSpeed?</h4>
If xSpeed makes your site faster, please leave a review on WordPress.org — it really helps!
<h3>External services</h3>
xSpeed contacts exactly one external endpoint, and only your own site:
<h4>Self-hosted gzip probe</h4>
<ul>
<li>What it does: Issues a single <code>GET</code> request to your site’s home URL (<code>home_url('/')</code>) with an <code>Accept-Encoding: gzip</code> header to detect whether your web server is already serving gzipped responses. The response body is discarded; only the <code>Content-Encoding</code> header is read.</li>
<li>When it runs: On demand when the admin dashboard loads server status, throttled to once per hour via a transient (<code>xspeed_gzip_active</code>).</li>
<li>Where the request goes: Your own site (<code>home_url()</code>). xSpeed does not contact any third-party server, analytics endpoint, license server, or telemetry collector.</li>
<li>What is sent: No personal data, no site identifiers, no payload — just a standard HTTP <code>GET</code> from your server back to your server.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Third-party libraries</h3>
This plugin bundles the following GPL-compatible third-party libraries:
<h4>matthiasmullie/minify</h4>
Used for CSS and JavaScript minification.
<ul>
<li>Source: https://github.com/matthiasmullie/minify</li>
<li>License: MIT</li>
</ul>
<h4>matthiasmullie/path-converter</h4>
Dependency of <code>matthiasmullie/minify</code>.
<ul>
<li>Source: https://github.com/matthiasmullie/path-converter</li>
<li>License: MIT</li>
</ul>
<h4>React / React DOM / Scheduler</h4>
Used for the xSpeed admin interface bundle.
<ul>
<li>Source: https://github.com/facebook/react</li>
<li>License: MIT</li>
</ul>
<h4>lucide-react</h4>
Used for admin interface icons.
<ul>
<li>Source: https://github.com/lucide-icons/lucide</li>
<li>License: ISC</li>
</ul>

xSpeed – AI Cache & Performance Optimizer

Ultra-fast WordPress caching & performance plugin. Page cache, minify, GZIP, lazy load, fonts, object cache, CDN — one switch, no bloat, no upsells.

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SpeedyCache is a WordPress cache plugin that helps you improve performance of your WordPress site by caching, minifying, and compressing your website.
You can find our official documentation at <a href="https://speedycache.com/docs" rel="nofollow ugc">https://speedycache.com/docs</a>. We are also active in our community support forums on wordpress.org if you are one of our free users. Our Premium Support Ticket System is at <a href="https://softaculous.deskuss.com" rel="nofollow ugc">https://softaculous.deskuss.com</a>
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Other than caching SpeedyCache can also do the following:- 
1. It can minify and combine CSS/JS giving even better optimization as it reduces the file sizes and reduces the HTTP requests to the server. 
2. Eliminate render-blocking JavaScript resources helping your website to load faster. 
3. Lazy load images so that the images can be requested only if they come into the viewport. 
4. GZIP files to reduce the size of the file sent from the server.
<h3>Free Features</h3>
<ul>
<li>Caching: Storing copies of the web pages of the desktop version. Caching happens when a user visits a webpage on your website</li>
<li>Preload: Preload makes sure the user always sees the cached version of your website as it periodically creates cache.</li>
<li>Combine CSS: Combines CSS files present in the header of the page reducing HTTP requests.</li>
<li>Minify CSS: Reduces the size of the CSS files.</li>
<li>Automatic Cache: Creates cache of post when it gets deleted if preload is enabled.</li>
<li>Combine JS: Combines JS files present in the header of the page reducing HTTP requests.</li>
<li>GZIP: It applies GZIP compression on the files hence reducing the file size sent from the server.</li>
<li>Browser Caching: Caches the website on the browser of the client for repeating visitors.</li>
<li>DNS-Prefetch: DNS prefetch is a technique that improves website performance by resolving domain names in advance, before they are needed.</li>
<li>Disable Emojis: You can remove the emoji inline CSS and wp-emoji-release.min.js.</li>
<li>Exclude: You can exclude certain Pages, User-Agent, Cookies, CSS, or JS from being cached.</li>
<li>CDN: CDN helps improve website speed by placing the static files of your cached on their network of servers hence helping deliver content faster at any point in the world.</li>
<li>Display Swap: Adds display swap to Google font URL, so when Google font loads the font will stay visible this is enabled by default.</li>
<li>Purge Varnish: If enabled it will purge Varnish cache, whenever cache from SpeedyCache is purged.</li>
<li>Gravatar Cache: Host Gravatars on your server.</li>
<li>*Improve Font Rendering:** Adding CSS property of text-rendering to prioritize speed of render of Fonts.</li>
</ul>
<h3>GET SUPPORT AND PRO FEATURES</h3>
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<h3>Pro Features:-</h3>
<ul>
<li>Image Optimization: Image optimization is a way to convert an image to next-gen image formats like webp which load images faster on the web.</li>
<li>Instant Page: It loads the page just before user clicks the link, reducing the page load time.</li>
<li>Google Fonts: Google fonts are also seen as render-blocking so this feature helps load Google fonts asynchronously.</li>
<li>Local Google Fonts: Cache the Google fonts to be compliant with the GDPR rules.</li>
<li>Lazy Load: Loading all assets at once can make the page load slower hence lazy load helps by only loading certain resources when they come into the viewport.</li>
<li>Minify HTML: It removes empty lines, line breaks, minifies inline Js And Css, removes comments and space in Tags</li>
<li>Minify JS: Reduces JS file size.</li>
<li>Delay JS: Delays the JS to load on user interaction to reduce or remove the issue of Unused JS.</li>
<li>Advanced Combine JS: Combines JS files placed in the footer section helping reduce HTTP calls.</li>
<li>Render blocking JS: Before rendering a page the browser parses the HTML to create a DOM tree and if an external script comes it has to stop and wait for the script to execute hence the rendering of the page ends up taking time, hence Render blocking JS feature helps in deferring the load of JS after the render has happened hence the first load get faster.</li>
<li>Delete Cache Stats: Provides statistics about the cached files of Desktop or Mobile version and combined/ minified version of CSS and JS.</li>
<li>Mobile Cache: Caches the mobile version of your website and shows that version on mobile devices.</li>
<li>Database Cleanup: Database cleanup helps you free up your database storage from temporary data, trashed contents, and post revisions which may take a lot of your database storage.</li>
<li>PreConnect: Preconnect improves website loading times by establishing early connections to third-party domains.</li>
<li>Preload: Preload improves website performance by downloading resources in advance, before they are needed.</li>
<li>Critical CSS: Extracts the CSS used by the page in the visible viewport at the time of load.</li>
<li>Unused CSS: Removes the unused CSS, keeping the CSS that is being used by the paged, which reduces the size of CSS used on the page.</li>
<li>Object Cache: It makes the object to persist by using Redis, to improve availability of the cache.</li>
<li>Bloat Remover: Options to remove unnecessary features of WordPress or WooCommerce.</li>
<li>Image Dimension: Adds dimensions to the image tag which does not have width or height, to reduce (CLS)Cumulative Layout Shift.</li>
<li>Lazy Render HTML: User can lazy render HTML elements which are not in view-port.</li>
<li>Preload Critical Images: Preload above-the-fold images to improve LCP(Largest Contentful paint).</li>
</ul>
<h3>Caching</h3>
SpeedyCache caches the website by creating static files on the server and delivers those static files to most of the users who visit the website, The static files eliminate the heavy load of Querying the database for data hence the load of your website is faster.
You can preload as many pages as you want, and preloading caches the website in regular intervals of time to reduce the load on the server.
Deleting Cache on New/updating Post. 
You can decide to delete the cache on the creation or updating of a post so that the cache can always stay updated.
<h3>Minifying/Combining CSS and JS</h3>
SpeedyCache helps minify the JS and CSS hence it reduces the file sizes. 
Combining JS combines the CSS and JS fines reducing the file count and making the server handle lesser requests.
<h3>Cache Lifespan</h3>
Cache Lifespan is a way to schedule the deletion of cache.
<h3>Exclude</h3>
Exclude is a way to prevent SpeedyCache from caching certain files/ user-agents/ cookies.
<h3>CDN (Content Delivery Network)</h3>
CDN helps you host your static content on a distributed network optimized to deliver internet content faster it’s not a replacement to a web host. It caches your files on the network edge and delivers the content to the user through the closest and fastest server. 
SpeedyCache helps you integrate a CDN by rewriting the URLs of the static files you want to host on the CDN or in the Case of Cloudflare it helps with the purging of the cache on the Cloudflare servers.
<h3>[Pro] Image Optimization</h3>
Image optimization is a way to convert your images from old formats like JPG and PNG to the new next-gen formats like webp which is designed with the web as the target platform to load images faster. webp images result in smaller and richer images that make the web faster. 
We provide 3 ways to convert your images to webp. 
GD(a PHP extension), Imagick(a PHP extension), and cwebp(a webp conversion utility from Google).
<h3>[Pro] Bloat Remover</h3>
SpeedyCache has 12 bloat removal options which are listed below. 
1. Disable Dashicons 
2. Update Heartbeat 
3. Limit Post Revisions 
4. Disable XML-RPC 
5. Disable Google Fonts 
6. Disable jQuery Migrate 
7. Disable RSS feeds 
8. Disable Gutenberg 
9. Disable OEmbeds 
10. Disable Block Editor CSS 
11. Disable Cart Fragments 
12. Disable WooCommerce Assets
<h3>[Pro] Database Cleanup</h3>
Data cleanup cleans the database by removing the following data:- 
1. Post Revisions 
2. Trashed Content 
3. Trashed and Spam comments 
4. Trackbacks and pingbacks 
5. All Transient options 
6. Expired Transient Options

SpeedyCache – Cache, Optimization, Performance

SpeedyCache is a WordPress cache plugin that helps you improve performance of your WordPress site by caching, minifying, and compressing your website.

xSpeed – AI Cache & Performance Optimizer vs SpeedyCache – Cache, Optimization, Performance