Top 5 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 features for Pagespeed and Core Web Vitals optimization, paid and free.

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Perfmatters

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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 “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

Wp Rocket

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:

• Delay Javascript until user interaction
• Critical CSS
• Cloudflare integration
• Database Optimization
• HTML/CSS/JS minification & compression
• DNS prefetching, preloading
• Remove unused CSS
• Lazyload
• For CDN, consider Bunny
• For Image Optimization + WebP, consider Imagify $10/month

The yearly pricing on Wp Rocket plans are:

• WP Rocket 1 website license: $59
• WP Rocket 3 websites license: $119
• WP Rocket Unlimited website license: $299

FlyingPress and FlyingCDN

FlyingPress is a speed optimization plugin from the Wordpress dev Gjio, which has also developed the popular plugin Flyins Scripts.

FlyingPress has many Core Web Vitals (Google SEO algorithm) features, including:

• Caching
• Defer Scripts
• Optimize Google Fonts loading
• Prioritize Resources – Prioritize resources like the above-fold images, and fonts to load in high priority.

FlyingPress offers the FlyingCDN addon that adds their CDN, which offers custom domain & SSL.

Pricing: FlyingPress $60/year + FlyingCDN $36 (3$/mo) 100GB/limit, 1-year plan: $96/year

Cloudflare APO and Cloudflare Pro

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.