Autoptimize

Autoptimize speeds up your website by optimizing JS, CSS, HTML, Google Fonts and images, async-ing JS, removing emoji cruft and more.

4.2
WPMeta Score

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Plugin Popularity 4.0
Author Activity 2.5
  • 👷🏻 This plugin is actively maintained and contributors are really committed to it!
  • 📥 Wow! 1,956 people download this plugin eveyday!
  • 🎖 Shout, shout.. This plugin ranks in the Top 50 plugins.
  • ❤️ Mindblowing! More than 1,133,000 people use plugins from this team.
  • 🏂 23% of 1,000,000+ users are on the latest version.
  • 👨‍👨‍👧‍👧 Good sign.. There is a team behind this plugin.
  • 📢 Aweful or Awesome?? 58 total updates and 58 in just last 12 months. That's a lot!
  • 🎂 This plugin is going to celebrate it's 12th anniversary after 3 months.

Key Numbers

  • 1,000,000+ Active Installs
  • 4.7 Avg. Users Rating
  • 934 Total Ratings
  • 8,410,558 Total Downloads
  • 2009-07-09 Added
  • 58 Releases in 12 Months
  • 2019-12-03 Last Update
  • 2.5.1 Current Version

Peer Comparison

# Plugin WPMeta Score Users Rating
1Autoptimize4.21,000,000+4.7
2Hummingbird Page Speed Optimization3.680,000+4.8
3PageSpeed Ninja2.530,000+4.7
4Breeze – WordPress Cache Plugin2.380,000+4.2
5Swift Performance Lite2.220,000+4.2
6WordPress WPO Tweaks1.24,000+5
7CAOS for Webfonts | Host Google Fonts Locally1.29,000+4.9

Description

Autoptimize makes optimizing your site really easy. It can aggregate, minify and cache scripts and styles, injects CSS in the page head by default (but can also defer), moves and defers scripts to the footer and minifies HTML. The “Extra” options allow you to optimize Google Fonts and images, async non-aggregated JavaScript, remove WordPress core emoji cruft and more. As such it can improve your site’s performance even when already on HTTP/2! There is extensive API available to enable you to tailor Autoptimize to each and every site’s specific needs.

If you consider performance important, you really should use one of the many caching plugins to do page caching. Some good candidates to complement Autoptimize that way are e.g. WP Super Cache, HyperCache, Comet Cache or KeyCDN’s Cache Enabler.

(Speed-surfing image under creative commons by LL Twistiti)

Contributors

futtta
optimizingmatters
turl
zytzagoo

Reviews

5 Stars 824
4 Stars 30
3 Stars 18
2 Stars 14
1 Star 48
Nice and easy to manage
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The plugin is easy to manage, and also support team is great on job for detailed matters.
Absolute best caching plugin for Wordpress, hands down
by
I've used Autoptimize on countless sites now and will never work with another plugin. Page speeds drastically improve, JS/CSS/HTML minification is excellent. Significant reduction in the overall number of scripts being called on. Included lazy-loading of images. Fast, responsive support (I mean like within 30 minutes, just crazy fast.) The plugin does ALMOST too good a job at optimizing JS files, as some plugins can get fussy, but easily excluding the scripts from AO is a breeze as well and if you can't figure it out, Frank will tell you exactly what you need to do. There is no better all-in-one caching plugin on the market. Must download.
Best plugin on Genre
by
Easy to use, does the job and just that. Just works on almost every install, some themes/plugins need a small workaround, but it's always something easy. This is by far the best plugin I've used for speeding up my website.
Great technical features and Support
by
I use this plugin to have time-delayed popups to capture user information. Works great and the support is absolutely amazing! Keep up the great work.
Amazing Plugin and Support
by
This plugin reduced my website loading times by almost 50%. Also, the kind of support i got from the plugin author is just outstanding.
Great plugin and great support!
by
Great plugin and great support!
Great Support again
by
Frank is so friendly and quick to respond to queries. Excellent support and also very skilled developer. Thanks
Got better speed.
by
Very satisfied.
Adds extra value!
by
Speed improvement is significant. Great job.
Usefull, easy and perfect
by
Very useful, easy to use and perfect support ! More than the technical side this plugin brings to you, the dev answer you clearly and quickly. Perfect 5/5

Keywords

  • aggregate
  • async
  • cache
  • CSS
  • html
  • image optimization
  • images
  • javascript
  • JS
  • minification
  • minify
  • minimize
  • optimize
  • pagespeed
  • performance
  • speed

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