Top 3 Nitropack Alternatives

Nitropack has good results in the Core Web Vitals rank, but it may not suit everyone as its monthly pricing can be prohibitive, and quickly add up to the budget.

Below is an up-to-date list of top Nitropack alternatives with Pagespeed and Core Web Vitals optimization features, as well as paid and free options.

FlyingPress

Flyingpress has better results than Nitropack. Of the total sites using Flyingpress, 72% have Good LCP Core Web Vitals, while with Nitropack the number is 67%.

This number is much due to how FlyingPress optimizes the “server” metrics, TTFB(Time to First Byte). In this metric, it optimizes more than 10% of the second-best speed plugin, which is Wp Rocket.

The yearly pricing on FlyingPress plans are:

• Flyingpress 1 site: $49
• Flyingpress 3 sites: $99
• Flyingpress 25 sites: $199
• Flyingpress unlimited sites: $249

Perfmatters

The difference between sites using Perfmatters passing Core Web Vitals vs Nitropack sites is only 4% (46% vs 50%). It doesn’t justify their large pricing discrepancy.

Perfmatters may be discouraging to use due to its advanced features, but its interface lets beginners remove unnecessary code from running to improve Pagespeed and Core Web Vitals.

Perfmatters 20% OFF Coupon: WPALPHA

Perfmatters “Script Manager” lists all your scripts and allows you to remove them from loading by device type, location, group of users, or using a regex formula.

You can access Perfmatters documentation to make sure what effect each feature will have, and how to fix any issues, if encountered. Perfmatters also offers a “Testing Mode”, which safely previews features before applying them to the live website.

One of the features of Perfmatters is database optimization, offering scheduled automatic database optimization. Perfmatters also has many features focused on Woocommerce. Other Perfmatters features:

• Change your WordPress login URL: change the wp-login URL to avoid hacking or bots.
• Google Analytics locally: speed up your site by reducing extra third-party requests.
• Add code to header, body, and footer.
• Preloading: Preload images only necessary, improving Core Web Vitals.
• Defer and delay JavaScript.
• Remove unused CSS: creates a different CSS file with removed unused CSS.
• Google Fonts locally: speed up your site by reducing extra third-party requests.
• Multisite support.
• CDN rewrite

The yearly pricing on Perfmatters plans are:

• Perfmatters 1 site: $20/year (using our coupon)
• Perfmatters 3 sites: $44/year (using our coupon)
• Perfmatters unlimited sites: $100/year (using our coupon)

Perfmatters 20% OFF Coupon: WPALPHA

Wp Rocket

The difference between sites using Wp Rocket passing Core Web Vitals vs Nitropack sites is only 3% (47% vs 50%). It also doesn’t justify their large pricing discrepancy.

Leader in the cache performance, it has many new features released to help improve Core Web Vitals, including removing unused CSS and delaying all Javascript but not essential ones by default:

• Critical CSS
• Cloudflare APO integration
• Database Optimization
• DNS prefetching, preloading
• Remove unused CSS
• Lazyload
• Image Optimization (Imagify $10/month)

The yearly pricing on Wp Rocket plans are:

• WP Rocket 1 website license: $59
• WP Rocket 10 websites license: $199
• WP Rocket unlimited 100 websites license: $399

Cloudflare

Cloudflare Automatic Optimization is a new tool to improve Wordpress TTFB. Cloudflare made a study and concluded that APO optimized their Wordpress client’s websites TTFB for a 72% improvement.

Not only that, but their clients’ FCP(First Content Paint) and Speed Index had an improvement of 22% and 13% respectively. Cloudflare APO setup requires changing your domain DNS records.

Cloudflare currently offers Automatic Platform Optimizations (APO) for $5/month, and it caches the HTML of your WordPress website. This is possible due to Cloudflare Workers that cache dynamic content.

Cloudflare APO is compatible(you need to manually purge Cloudflare APO cache) with WP Rocket and many other plugins, check the compatibility here.

Cloudflare Pro is another service that at $20/month offers many useful features, including:

• Web Application Firewall (WAF)
• Lossless Image Optimization
• 20 Page Rules (+17 than of the free plan) – These are meant to improve Wordpress usage overall

Cloudflare Pro and Cloudflare APO can be used alongside many other Wordpress cache plugins.