Asset CleanUp vs Powered Cache – Caching and Optimization for WordPress – Easily Improve PageSpeed & Web Vitals Score

Powered Cache is your comprehensive solution for enhancing WordPress site performance, ensuring a swift and seamless user experience. The Free version provides essential tools to boost your site’s speed while the Premium version unlocks a suite of advanced optimization features. Features ⚡️ Simple and easily configurable: Import and export settings effortlessly. Page Caching: Accelerate page loads, trusted by top-tier websites. Object Caching: Speed up dynamic pageviews. It supports Redis, Memcached, Memcache, and APCu. Page Cache Rule Management: Need advanced caching configurations? Got it covered under advanced options. Details File Optimization: Easily minify and combine CSS, JS files. Eliminate render-blocking resource problems easily. And more Database Optimization: Keep redundant data away from your database. Media Optimization: Enable Lazy Load, replace YouTube videos with thumbnails, control WordPress embeds, remove emoji scripts. Combine Google Fonts: Combine Google Fonts URLs into a single URL and optimize the font loading. Rewrite Support: Automatic .htaccess configuration for the ideal setup. The cached file can be served without executing PHP at all. Mobile Support: Separate cache file for mobile, in case want to use the separate theme for the mobile. Logged-in User Cache: If you have user-specific content or running a membership site, it creates cached results for the logged-in users. CDN Integration: Integrate your website with CDN; you just need to enter CNAME(s) and corresponding zones. Cache Preloading: Creating cached pages in advance. This feature will keep caching layer warm. Prefetched DNS: Resolve domain names before resources get requested. Reduce DNS lookup time. Gzip Support: Compress caching files with gzip. Built-in Extensions: Cloudflare, Heartbeat Multisite Support: You can activate network-wide or site basis. It’s compatible with domain mapping. Smart Cache Purging: Only purge the cache that is affected by the content changes. Compatible: Tested and compatible with popular plugins. Battle Tested: Trusted by enterprise-grade websites. Built-in Extensions Built-in extensions (aka add-ons) shipped with Powered Cache to provide more functionality. Cloudflare: Cloudflare compatibility and functionalities Free Heartbeat: Manage the frequency of the WordPress Heartbeat API. Free Varnish: Varnish cache purging Premium only Google Tracking: Powered Cache will host Google scripts on your server to help satisfy the PageSpeed recommendation. Premium only Facebook Tracking: Powered Cache will host Facebook scripts on your server to help satisfy the PageSpeed recommendation. Premium only Premium Features Explore the powerful capabilities offered by Powered Cache Premium: Critical CSS & Load CSS Asynchronously: Accelerate your page load times by prioritizing essential styles. Remove Unused CSS: Smartly scans your website to identify and eliminate unused CSS rules, optimizing performance. Automatic Image Dimension Assignment: Adds missing dimensions to images to improve layout stability and speed. Link Prefetching: Pre-fetches links to provide a smoother user experience. Image Optimizer: On the fly image compression, including AVIF/WebP format conversion, to enhance load speed. Sitemap Preloading: Automatically visits URLs listed in your sitemap to pre-generate cache, ensuring faster load times for your visitors. Scheduled Database Cleanups: Automates database optimization tasks to maintain peak performance. Varnish Extension: Enhance your site’s caching capabilities with Varnish support. Google & Facebook Tracking Extensions: Host external tracking scripts locally, with automatic updates when the external resource changes. WP-CLI Support: Command-line options available to streamline your workflow. Top-Notch Premium Support: Get high-quality support for any issues you might encounter. Ad-Free Plugin Interface: Enjoy an uncluttered, ad-free plugin admin page. By upgrading to Powered Cache Premium you also get access to one-on-one help from our knowledgeable support team and our extensive documentation site. Learn more about Powered Cache Premium Contributing & Bug Report Bug reports and pull requests are welcome on Github. Some of our features are premium only, please consider before sending PR. Documentation Documentation site: https://docs.poweredcache.com/ Developer Docs: https://poweredcache.github.io/docs/ (Hook reference)

Most WordPress sites load unnecessary CSS and JavaScript files, making pages slower than they should be. Strip the “fat” first and get a faster website! Faster page load = Happier Visitors = More Conversions = More Revenue 🙂 When using a theme and multiple plugins, many styles and scripts are loaded on every page, even when they are not needed. Preventing unnecessary assets from loading makes your website faster and the HTML output cleaner. For example, a contact form plugin may load its CSS and JavaScript files on every page, even if the form is only used on the contact page. Asset CleanUp scans your page and shows all loaded assets. You can then unload the ones that are not needed, reducing page bloat and improving load speed. The plugin works best alongside a caching plugin or CDN (e.g. Cloudflare) for maximum performance. Main plugin’s benefits include Unload (prevent from loading) unnecessary CSS & JavaScript files and decrease HTTP requests Eliminate render-blocking resources for faster page load Improve Core Web Vitals and performance scores (PageSpeed, GTmetrix, Pingdom) Combine and minify remaining CSS & JavaScript files (including inline code) Defer JavaScript execution to improve loading speed Inline critical CSS for faster rendering Preload important assets such as CSS, JavaScript, local fonts & Google Fonts Remove unused features such as Emojis, Dashicons (for guests) and Comment Reply Disable RSS feeds if not needed Reduce overall HTML size (especially effective with GZIP compression enabled) Prevent potential conflicts between plugins and themes Make source code cleaner and easier to debug Google Fonts Optimization / Removal Reduce the number of Google Font requests by combining them into fewer requests (faster loading) Load Google Fonts asynchronously or via preload to avoid render-blocking issues Preload Google Font files for improved performance Apply font-display to ensure text remains visible while fonts are loading Enable preconnect to speed up font delivery Option to completely remove Google Fonts (including all related requests) Local Fonts Optimization Preload local font files for faster rendering Apply font-display to improve text visibility during font loading (important for PageSpeed) Critical CSS Add your own critical CSS to improve above-the-fold loading speed Supports homepage, posts, pages, taxonomies, archives, search and 404 pages Can be managed directly from the Dashboard or via code / Read More Clean up unnecessary code from HEAD & BODY Remove unused WordPress tags (RSD, REST API, shortlinks, generator meta, etc.) Disable RSS feed links if not needed Remove oEmbed scripts if you don’t use embedded content Strip unnecessary HTML comments (with exceptions support) Each option can be enabled or disabled individually, giving you full control over how your site is optimized. Clear instructions are available directly in the plugin’s settings. Disable partially or completely XML-RPC protocol Disable XML-RPC if not needed (improves security and reduces unnecessary access) Keep it enabled if you rely on external apps or services Fully compatible with WordPress Multisite networks Asset CleanUp Pro This is the lite version of Asset CleanUp Pro, which offers advanced control over how CSS & JavaScript files are loaded across your entire website. Learn more about the Pro version NOTES If something is not working as expected or you have any suggestions, feel free to open a thread in the support forum, and I’ll be happy to help. If you enjoy using the plugin, a review is always appreciated. GO PRO Unlock advanced control over how CSS & JavaScript files load across your entire website Unload (prevent from loading) CSS/JS files across all pages (including taxonomies, archives, search and 404 pages) Disable entire plugins in the frontend or Dashboard to reduce load time and avoid conflicts Load assets conditionally based on screen size (e.g. skip unnecessary files on mobile) Defer or async JavaScript files for faster page rendering Move CSS & JS between HEAD and BODY to reduce render-blocking resources Inline JavaScript when needed for better performance Get faster updates, early access to new features and premium support Ready to take full control of your website’s performance? Upgrade to Asset CleanUp Pro