Nitropack vs Wp Rocket: How their features compare

Nitropack and WP Rocket have been built to be a do-it-all in terms of speed optimization, but as page speed definition evolved over the years with the addition of the Core Web Vitals, the tools should too. 

Both plugins rank below the top 1 Core Web Vitals speed plugin, Flyingpress. Nitropack ranks better than WP Rocket. It also ranks slightly better than Perfmatters.

Speed plugins have been less necessary, as WordPress Core has a dedicated performance team now, which makes sure WordPress performance improves for both classic and new block themes in each new release.

Both plugins may lack features to specifically improve Core Web Vitals metrics, including INP(Interaction to Next Paint), and many of the features they offer are offered freely by any major hosting, such as cache.

The main difference between them is that Nitropack offers a built-in CDN feature that stores all your assets on a CDN(Content Delivery Network).

Nitropack also offers a different interface, with “optimization levels”. There are 5 different optimization levels.

WP Rocket is open source, and this leads to better compatibility(anyone can open an issue) with other plugins. An example is that it has already solved 73 Elementor-related issues(and counting).