BlinkSpeed vs SpinupWP

Boost your WordPress site speed with advanced AI optimization techniques. Improve Core Web Vitals, achieve higher scores on Google PageSpeed Insights and GTmetrix, and deliver a faster, smoother browsing experience for your visitors. Features CSS Optimization – Minification, combination, and critical CSS loading JavaScript Optimization – Minification, combination, and deferred loading HTML Caching – Page-level caching for improved performance Image Optimization – WebP conversion and lazy loading CDN Support – Content Delivery Network integration Lazy Loading – Images, iframes, and videos Asset Preloading – Preload critical assets like images and fonts for faster rendering Admin Bar Integration – Quick cache purge from admin bar Multisite Support – Network-wide and individual site management Web Vitals Monitoring – Core Web Vitals tracking and logging Change Logging – Track all settings changes Free vs Premium Features BlinkSpeed offers a powerful free version with essential performance optimizations. A premium license unlocks advanced AI-powered optimization features for the entire website. Free Version (Included with Plugin) The following features are available for free and work on all pages: HTML page caching CSS minification JavaScript minification JavaScript lazy loading Image lazy loading Browser caching GZIP compression Cache management tools Multisite compatibility Critical CSS generation (Home Page Only) Advanced image optimization and WebP conversion (Home Page Only) These optimizations help significantly improve page load speed and overall performance without requiring a license key. Premium Version (Requires License Key) The premium version unlocks advanced AI-powered optimization features for all pages: HTML page caching CSS minification JavaScript minification JavaScript lazy loading Image lazy loading Browser caching GZIP compression Cache management tools Multisite compatibility Critical CSS generation (All Pages) Advanced image optimization and WebP conversion (All Pages) Without a license key, critical CSS and advanced image optimization are available only for the homepage. Why Premium Features Require a License Some advanced optimizations rely on BlinkSpeed cloud services to process CSS, images, and performance data. These services require additional server resources, so a license key is required to enable them for the entire website. You can activate your license key from: BlinkSpeed → General Settings → License Key Requirements WordPress 5.0 or higher PHP 7.4 or higher PHP XML extension PHP GD extension Plugin Architecture The plugin follows WordPress coding standards and modular architecture. Main Files blinkspeed.php – Main plugin file with header and initialization includes/Plugin.php – Main plugin class orchestrating functionality includes/Core.php – Core functionality and settings management includes/Frontend.php – Frontend optimization handling includes/Database.php – Database operations and table management Admin Structure admin/Admin.php – Main admin class handling menu and settings admin/Admin_Bar.php – Admin bar cache purge functionality admin/admin-page.php – Admin page template Configuration General Settings Enable Optimization – Turn on/off optimization features License Key – Enter your BlinkSpeed license key CSS Optimization CSS Optimization – Enable CSS minification and combination Load Critical CSS – Inline critical CSS for above-the-fold content JavaScript Optimization JavaScript Optimization – Enable JS minification and combination Load Combined JS – Choose when to load combined JavaScript files HTML Caching HTML Caching – Enable page-level caching Cache Expiry Time – Set cache expiration time in seconds Image Optimization Convert JPG to WebP – Automatically convert JPG images to WebP Convert PNG to WebP – Automatically convert PNG images to WebP Lazy Loading – Enable lazy loading for images Usage Basic Setup Activate the plugin. Go to BlinkSpeed settings. Configure optimization preferences. Save settings. Cache Management Purge cache directly from the WordPress admin bar. CSS/JS cache can be purged globally or per page. HTML cache can be purged globally or per page. Critical CSS cache can be purged per page. Monitoring View Web Vitals logs for performance insights. Review change logs for settings updates. Monitor cache sizes and performance. Hooks Actions blinkspeed_init – Plugin initialization blinkspeed_settings_saved – Settings saved blinkspeed_cache_cleared – Cache cleared Filters blinkspeed_settings – Modify plugin settings blinkspeed_cache_path – Customize cache paths blinkspeed_exclude_urls – Exclude URLs from optimization Database Tables The plugin creates the following tables: wp_blinkspeed_core_web_vitals – Stores Web Vitals performance data wp_blinkspeed_change_logs – Stores settings change logs wp_blinkspeed_site_urls – Stores site URL management data Cache Structure wp-content/cache/ ├── critical-css/ └── bs-cache/ Performance Impact CSS/JS Optimization – Reduces file sizes by 20-40% HTML Caching – Improves page load times by 50-80% Image Optimization – Reduces image sizes by 25-50% Lazy Loading – Improves initial page load performance Common Issues Permission errors – Ensure cache directory permissions are correct. Cache not working – Verify optimization settings are enabled. Images not converting – Confirm the GD extension is installed. Admin bar missing – Check user capability settings. Security Input sanitization for all settings Nonce verification for forms Capability checks for admin actions Secure file operations Multisite Support Network-wide settings management Individual site overrides Centralized cache control Site-specific optimization rules External Services This plugin connects to the BlinkSpeed API service: https://rest.blinkspeed.ai These services provide CSS optimization, image optimization, and license verification. Data Sent CSS file URLs and content for optimization Image URLs for WebP conversion License key for verification Service Information Service Provider: https://blinkspeed.ai Support Policy: https://blinkspeed.ai/support-policy/ Terms of Service: https://blinkspeed.ai/term-of-service/ All communication happens over secure HTTPS connections. Minified Assets Some JavaScript files are distributed in minified form for performance. Third-party libraries: assets/js/web-vitals.iife.js – https://github.com/GoogleChrome/web-vitals assets/js/diff.min.js – https://github.com/kpdecker/jsdiff Plugin-specific scripts: assets/js/img-lazyload.js – https://blinkspeed.ai/resources/js/img-lazyload.js assets/js/script-load.min.js – https://blinkspeed.ai/resources/js/script-load.js

This plugin ensures that the SpinupWP page cache is cleared when your site’s content changes. Not using SpinupWP yet? Sign up here. SpinupWP is a modern server control panel that’s here to help you implement best practices for every server you spin up. Designed for WordPress. This companion plugin should be installed on sites created using SpinupWP to allow the page cache to be cleared when your site’s content changes. Not using SpinupWP yet? Sign up here. Any Provider We support DigitalOcean, Linode, AWS, and any other provider. If your server has an IP address, you can connect SpinupWP. It does need to be a fresh install of Ubuntu though. Latest & Greatest Software SpinupWP will install the latest stable versions of Nginx, PHP, MySQL/MariaDB, and Redis from the standard apt-get repos. No who-knows-what-they-did custom builds of packages. Disconnect from SpinupWP in the future and you can still keep your packages up-to-date with apt-get upgrade. Automatic Security Updates SpinupWP will configure your server to install security updates as soon as they are available to reduce the likelihood of a software vulnerability putting your server at risk. Free SSL/TLS Certificates Serving your site over HTTPS is essential these days, not only for security, but to take advantage of the performance improvements of HTTP/2 as well. When you add a site to SpinupWP, a free Let’s Encrypt SSL/TLS certificate will be acquired, installed, and configured for your site. And SpinupWP will handle certificate renewals as well, so you hardly need to think about certificates. Cache All the Things One of the keys to a great performing WordPress site is caching. All sites are set up with Redis object caching to greatly reduce database requests. And with the check of a box you can enable full-page caching to serve pages lightning fast without even hitting PHP. Git Push-to-Deploy Developers! Developers! Developers! Add a git repository to your SpinupWP site and simply push to master to deploy your code. GitHub, Bitbucket, or a custom git repo will work. You can also configure a build script to run some tasks on the server after deployment is complete. Error Logs WordPress doesn’t enable error logging by default. Probably because the log is saved to a publicly accessible directory and can quickly balloon to take up a lot of hard drive space. SpinupWP enables error logs by default but stores them in a safe place and makes sure they’re rotated regularly like other server logs. Security Security Security Each server provisioned by SpinupWP is security-hardened from the word go. SSH login is disabled for the root user (you login with your user and use sudo instead). The firewall only allows connections to Nginx and SSH and failed attempts are monitored and blocked when the reach a threshold. Nginx is configured to defend against XSS, clickjacking, MIME sniffing, and other attacks. Software security updates are installed automatically. Scheduled Posts Published on Schedule For every site you add via SpinupWP, a server-side cron job will be configured to make sure that your WordPress site’s cron is executed every minute, as it should be. WP-CLI Preloaded If you love WP-CLI (we do! ❤) you’ll be very pleased to find it available on the command line the first time you login to your server. Security Isolation for Sites For each site that you add to your server via SpinupWP, a new system user is created for that site. All site files are owned by the site user and a PHP-FPM pool is configured to run as that user as well. Each site only has access to its files and so if only one site has a security vulnerability and gets infected with malware for example, only the files for that one site can be infected. SFTP Access for Your Clients If you’re hosting a site for someone else, you can easily give them SFTP/SSH access to just that site. And because of the security isolation between sites, they will only have access to files for that site. Professional Guidance & Best Practices SpinupWP will actively point you in the right direction and offer suggestions for maintaining your server. And because it provides detailed feedback about the operations it runs on your server, you can learn what is happening with your server. New release of Ubuntu just came out, should I upgrade? We’ll add a notice to the app about that, why we don’t recommend upgrading your existing servers, and how you can spin up a new server with the new release of Ubuntu and migrate your sites to that server instead. Should I install Varnish to improve page caching performance? We’ve benchmarked Varnish and Nginx FastCGI Cache performed better. Varnish would add complexity too, so one less moving part is another reason. Much of the time SpinupWP will suggest things that you may not have even thought of. Email deliverability for example. SpinupWP will strongly encourage you to configure an email sending plugin for the best email deliverability. SpinupWP’s guidance is especially helpful for those new to managing a server, but can also help those who’ve been at it a while, providing transparency to our decisions. Scheduled Backups of Site Files & Database All server providers (DigitalOcean, Linode, etc) offer automated backups of your entire server for a fee. These services are great and we highly recommend having backups of your whole server. But what happens if some media or data was deleted by accident from your WordPress site? You’re not going to restore your entire server just to get that data back. That’s where site backups come in. Site backups are full backups of your site files (media, themes, and plugins) and database. They allow you to easily restore a single site or just some files or data from a single site. With SpinupWP’s site backups, you choose your preferred provider to stash your backups whether that’s Amazon S3, DigitalOcean Spaces, or Google Cloud Storage. You plug in your account details and SpinupWP will send your site backups there in an easy-to-see format. Teamwork Makes the Dream Work Create a new team account, invite a member of your team, and allow them to spin up their own servers. Or just only allow them to add sites, the permissions you give them is up to you. Features Page cache purging Persistent object caching Ensures debug.log files aren’t saved in a publicly-accessible location