Page caching
Full-page HTML cache for anonymous visitors with smart or full purging, mobile and cookie cache variants, gzip pre-compression, hit-rate metrics, and background warming — manually, after a purge, or on a schedule with sitemap seeding.
WordPress Plugin
Available nowNitro Performance
Cache, Page Speed & Core Web Vitals Optimizer
Pass Core Web Vitals with all-in-one speed: page caching, CSS/JS minify, combine and defer, image lazy-load, WebP delivery, and bloat removal — in one lightweight, modular plugin.
v1.0.0WordPress 6.2+ · PHP 8.1+GPL-2.0 licensed
Nine modules
A full performance stack in one plugin.
Four performance domains — caching, assets, media, and bloat — plus the supporting pieces most sites bolt on separately.
Object cache
Persistent Redis object cache via a bundled pure-PHP client — no phpredis extension needed. Installed as a versioned, reversible drop-in that degrades to a per-request cache if Redis is unreachable. Multisite-aware.
Asset optimization
Minify and combine CSS & JS, defer non-critical JavaScript, host Google Fonts locally, generate critical CSS automatically, and purge your CDN — built-in Cloudflare provider plus a generic action for any CDN.
Media
Lazy-load images and iframes, add missing width and height to stop layout shift, prioritize the LCP image, and generate and serve WebP.
Resource hints
Preconnect, dns-prefetch, and prefetch hints, merged into WordPress's own resource hints instead of fighting them.
Analytics
Privacy-friendly, cookieless, self-hosted pageview analytics that keep counting even when pages are served from cache. No cookies, no IP storage, no third party; respects Do Not Track and Global Privacy Control.
Bloat removal
Disable emojis and embeds, throttle the Heartbeat API, limit post revisions, and clean common database cruft — revisions, transients, spam, orphaned metadata — on demand or on a schedule.
Server rules
A managed .htaccess block for gzip and browser caching on Apache and LiteSpeed. Disclosed, idempotent, and reversible.
WP-CLI
wp wpnitro purge, warm, flush, and stats — ready for deploy scripts and cron.
Safe by default
Fast, without the usual risk.
Speed plugins earn a bad reputation by breaking sites. Nitro Performance is built the other way around.
Every module is independently toggleable and ships off or in its safest mode
Disabled modules attach zero hooks, so they add zero overhead
Anything that touches wp-config.php or drop-ins is disclosed, idempotent, and reversible
No Composer, no build step, no runtime dependencies — a built-in autoloader and nothing else
FAQ
Common questions.
Does Nitro Performance require Composer or a build step?
No. Nitro Performance runs with a built-in autoloader and no runtime dependencies.
Is it safe to enable everything at once?
Modules are conservative by default. Aggressive options, like combining JavaScript, are opt-in and reversible.
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