Nitropack vs Wp Rocket: How their features compare

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Both plugins 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. 

✨Winner: Wp Rocket

Best Alternative: Perfmatters

One reason that both plugins may not be essential anymore is that 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.

What is the best solution for improving your Wordpress website speed and who has the best price?

Nitropack’s main difference from Wp Rocket might be its built-in CDN, but as Wp Rocket continues to launch new Core Web Vitals features, it may be more advantageous depending on your goals.

Both plugins may lack features to specifically improve Core Web Vitals metrics, including the upcoming 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 it to have better compatibility(anyone can open an issue) with other plugins. An example is that it already solved 73 Elementor-related issues(and counting).

Websites using Nitropack perform better regarding speed than websites using Wp Rocket. It also ranks slightly better than Perfmatters.

FunctionalityWp RocketNitropack
Improves LCP✔️✔️
Improves CLS1 feature
Delay JS✔️✔️
Built-in CDN❌ (Use Bunny CDN)✔️
Critical CSS✔️✔️
Cloudflare APO integration✔️
Database Optimization✔️❌(Use Advanced Database Cleaner)
Lazyload + Image Optim. + WebP❌(Use Imagify $10/mo)✔️
Remove unused CSS✔️✔️
Fetch Priority + Preload

The yearly pricing on both products:

  • Wp Rocket 1 site: $59
  • Nitropack 50.000 pageviews/mo limit(25GB max bandwidth): $199
  • Wp Rocket 1 site $59 + $100 Imagify + CDN: $159 plus CDN price
  • Nitropack 200.000 pageviews/mo limit(100GB max bandwidth): $485
  • Nitropack 1.000.000 pageviews/mo limit(500GB max bandwidth): $1672

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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
  • CDN: Bunny
  • For Image Optimization + WebP, consider Imagify $10/month

Nitropack

Nitropack has optimization levels that help non-developers to speed up their website and have their Pagespeed score improved instantly, across all pages. One of the downsides of that may be the downgrade resulted in delaying essential files, resulting in Core Web Vitals issues.

Its main features are:

  • Delay JS until user-interaction
  • CDN
  • Critical CSS
  • Cloudflare integration
  • Lazyload + Image Optimization + WebP
  • HTML/CSS/JS minification & compression
  • DNS prefetching, preloading
  • Remove unused CSS (Reduce Unused CSS)

Get your WordPress Core Web Vitals optimized and your pages faster!

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