Breeze vs Speed Optimizer
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| Feature | Breeze v2.6.3 · checked 23 Oct 2026 Free · ★ 3.6/5 Visit Details | Speed Optimizer v7.8.5 · checked 23 Oct 2026 Free · ★ 4.2/5 Visit Details |
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| At a glance | ||
| Active installs | 300,000+ | 1M+ |
| Last updated | October 20, 2026 | October 20, 2026 |
| Editions | Breeze | Speed Optimizer |
| Pros | Completely free with no upsell; Page cache, minify, CDN rewrite and DB cleanup in one plugin; Built-in Varnish purge and WooCommerce-aware cache rules; WP-CLI commands and a REST endpoint to clear cache; Version rollback screen | Page caching, minification and lazy loading in one place; Browser cache headers and database cleanup; Free, from the WordPress.org directory |
| Cons | No object cache backend of its own; it only flushes an existing one; Cloudflare and Varnish features depend on Cloudways hosting; Browser cache and gzip rules are written to .htaccess, so Apache only | Dynamic caching and Memcached are SiteGround-only; CDN premium tier depends on the hosting plan; Calls Google PageSpeed and Google Fonts services |
| Features (Speed Optimization plugins checklist) | ||
| Page cache | Yes | Yes |
| Browser cache | Yes | Yes |
| Minify CSS/JS | Yes | Yes |
| CDN | Yes | Paid |
| Object cache | No | Yes |
| Database cleanup | Yes | Yes |
| Free version | Yes | Yes |
| More features | ||
| Other features | Varnish cache purge, Lazy loading for images and iframes, Delay and defer JavaScript, Font preload, link prefetch and cache preloader, WordPress heartbeat control, Host Google Fonts locally, Refreshes product page cache after WooCommerce orders, REST endpoint to clear all cache, WP-CLI commands, Roll back to an earlier plugin version | Lazy loading of images, iframes and videos, Image optimisation, WebP image conversion, Force HTTPS, Heartbeat control, PageSpeed analysis |
| Integrations | ||
| Analytics | — | Google PageSpeed Insights |
| E-commerce | WooCommerce | — |
| Other | Cloudflare (via Cloudways), Google Fonts, Sucuri SiteCheck (CDN URL check) | Google Fonts |
| Requires WordPress | 6.0 | 5.5.1 |
| Requires PHP | 7.4 | 7.0 |
| Tested up to | 7.1 | 7.1 |
| Phones home | No | No |
| External services | sitecheck.sucuri.net, api.wordpress.org, fonts.googleapis.com, fonts.gstatic.com | www.googleapis.com, fonts.googleapis.com, sgwpdemo.com, api.wordpress.org |