WordPress Plugins · Rising Stars
Fastest-growing performance plugins
28-day download growth, ranked and dated. As of 2026-07-29. Ranked by exact download-count deltas from WordPress.org's own stats API. No forecasts, no composite score.
Leaderboard
| Rank | Plugin | 28d growth |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | WP Remove Query Strings From Static Resources | +25% |
| 2 | Zamok – Security and Site Tools | +10% |
| 3 | Modern Image Formats | +8.0% |
| 4 | Embed Privacy | +7.8% |
| 5 | JCH Optimize | +6.1% |
| 6 | Speed Up – Lazy Load | +6.0% |
| 7 | CodingBunny Database Cleaner | +5.8% |
| 8 | Lightweight Accordion | +5.6% |
| 9 | Speed Up – JavaScript To Footer | +5.2% |
| 10 | Performance Lab | +5.2% |
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