Table of the top 40 WordPress plugins associated with caching, as measured by total downloads and a comparison of the top 5’s capabilities.
Total plugins: 60459
Limit reached: 40 at 5542
| Position | Plugin | Total downloads | Active | Star Rating | Tested up to |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17 | SiteGround Optimizer | 58161245 | 1000000 | 4.3 | 6.2.2 |
| 21 | WP Super Cache | 47496659 | 2000000 | 4.3 | 6.2.2 |
| 27 | LiteSpeed Cache | 44360692 | 4000000 | 4.8 | 6.2.2 |
| 28 | W3 Total Cache | 41672054 | 1000000 | 4.4 | 6.2.2 |
| 30 | WP Fastest Cache | 40605539 | 1000000 | 4.9 | 6.2.2 |
| 46 | WP-Optimize – Clean Compress Cache | 30215791 | 1000000 | 4.8 | 6.2.2 |
| 157 | Redis Object Cache | 6683410 | 100000 | 4.6 | 6.2.2 |
| 274 | Hummingbird | 3558566 | 100000 | 4.8 | 6.1.3 |
| 407 | Cache Enabler | 2221104 | 100000 | 4.4 | 6.2.2 |
| 507 | Proxy Cache Purge | 1695381 | 60000 | 4.5 | 6.0.5 |
| 733 | Hyper Cache | 1067957 | 10000 | 4.5 | 5.8.7 |
| 1068 | Super Page Cache for Cloudflare | 611696 | 40000 | 4.9 | 6.2.2 |
| 1263 | Comet Cache | 477549 | 40000 | 4.5 | 6.0.5 |
| 1272 | Pantheon Advanced Page Cache | 473229 | 10000 | 5 | 6.2.2 |
| 1409 | Clear Cache For Me | 408052 | 40000 | 4.8 | 6.2.2 |
| 1864 | Clear All Cache for WP Super Cache | 261074 | 10000 | 3.4 | 6.1.3 |
| 2024 | WPBase-Cache | 232550 | 3000 | 4 | 5.9.7 |
| 2056 | DB Cache Reloaded Fix | 227303 | 5000 | 4.3 | 3.4.2 |
| 2075 | SpeedyCache | 223908 | 80000 | 4.3 | 6.2.2 |
| 2299 | Nginx Cache Controller | 186655 | 1000 | 4.7 | 6.1.3 |
| 2529 | WP OPcache | 160853 | 10000 | 4.8 | 6.0.5 |
| 2605 | C3 Cloudfront Cache Controller | 152281 | 3000 | 4.3 | 6.1.3 |
| 2630 | WP REST Cache | 149779 | 10000 | 4.8 | 6.1.3 |
| 2693 | SNS Count Cache | 144491 | 10000 | 4 | 5.2.18 |
| 2734 | Nginx Cache | 140492 | 10000 | 4.5 | 5.6.11 |
| 2879 | Memcached | 128091 | 30 | 3.7 | 6.1.3 |
| 2942 | Simple Cache | 122816 | 4000 | 4.2 | 5.8.7 |
| 3294 | Autoclear Autoptimize Cache | 102824 | 20000 | 5 | 5.8.7 |
| 3324 | Batcache Manager | 101611 | 1000 | 4.5 | 5.3.15 |
| 3511 | Aruba HiSpeed Cache | 92658 | 70000 | 5 | 6.2.2 |
| 3658 | Docket Cache | 86334 | 8000 | 5 | 6.2.2 |
| 3743 | cos-html-cache | 82882 | 1000 | 0 | |
| 4001 | Hyper Cache Extended | 75114 | 700 | 4.9 | 4.9.23 |
| 4072 | ezCache | 73187 | 10000 | 4.6 | 6.2.2 |
| 4086 | Cache-Control | 72782 | 3000 | 5 | 5.2.18 |
| 4152 | Seraphinite Accelerator (Base cache only) | 71087 | 7000 | 4.9 | 6.2.2 |
| 4919 | Powered Cache | 53359 | 2000 | 4.7 | 6.2.2 |
| 4953 | MO Cache | 52743 | 3000 | 5 | 3.4.2 |
| 5462 | Cache Images | 44649 | 2000 | 5 | 6.0.5 |
| 5542 | WP File Cache | 43721 | 1000 | 3.5 | 3.1.4 |
| 40 | TOTALS | 282792168 |
Top 5 cache plugins compared
The table below compares the top 5 caching plugins against some of the more popular functional requirements for caching. Some explanations of the results are also provided.
| Functionality | SiteGround Optimizer | WP Super CACHE | W3 TOTAl CACHE | LiteSpeed cache | WP Fastest CACHE |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dynamic | Y | ? | . | Y | . |
| File based | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y |
| Memcache | SG | . | Y | Y | Y |
| Logged in | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y |
| Clearing granularity | ? | Y | Y | Y | Y |
| Exclude | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y |
| Preload | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y |
| Hooks/APIs | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y |
| Heartbeat | Y | N | N | Y | N |
| CSS | Y | . | Y | Y | £ |
| JS | Y | . | Y | Y | £ |
| HTML | Y | . | Y | Y | £ |
| Web fonts | Y | . | . | Y | £ |
| Image compression | SG | . | . | Y | £ |
| Lazy load | Y | . | ? | Y | . |
| Speed test | Y | N | Y | Y | N |
| WP-CLI | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y |
| Export/import | Y | N | Y | Y | Y |
| WPMS | Y | . | . | Y | Y |
| CDN | SG | Y | Y | Y | Y |
| Cookies | Y | Y | Y | . | . |
| Windows Subdir | Y | ? | ? | Y | |
| GitHub? | N | Y | Y | Y | N |
Legend
- Y – the plugin supports this
- ? – I couldn’t find out how to get it to work
- N – Not supported
- . or blank – I don’t know.
- £ – Only in the Premium version
- SG – Only when hosted on SiteGround
Dynamic Caching
Store your content in the server’s memory for a faster access with full-page caching solution powered by NGINX. Having Dynamic Cache is essential for speeding up your website.
SiteGround’s definition of Dynamic caching
- SiteGround’s dynamic caching using NGINX is difficult to turn off. Its functionality trumps other cache plugins.
- WPSC supports Expert caching which serves the cached pages directly from Apache.
- W3TC supports reverse proxy caching via varnish.
File based
Does the plugin support file based caching where the cached file is served from a caching directory?
Memcache
Does the plugin support some level of memcached caching.
Logged in
Does the plugin support caching/not caching for logged in users?
Clearing granularity
Can you clear the cache for a particular post / page?
Exclude
Can you exclude URLs from being cached? Most plugins provide an admin interface and a filter to enable this.
- W3TC provides a filter that may support this.
Preload
Does the plugin preload the cache when cleared?
Hooks/APIs
Does the plugin provide hooks and/or APIs allowing programmatical interaction with the cache?