FlyingPress vs WP-Optimize
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| Feature | FlyingPress v5.6.5 · checked 23 Oct 2026 Paid Visit Details | WP-Optimize v4.7.0 · checked 23 Oct 2026 Free · ★ 4.8/5 Visit Details |
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| At a glance | ||
| Active installs | — | 1M+ |
| Last updated | — | September 21, 2026 |
| Editions | FlyingPress ($) | WP-Optimize · WP-Optimize Premium ($) |
| Pros | Page cache, minify, lazy load and font swap in one plugin; Cloudflare cache rules and purge integration; Image optimisation and page preloading built in | Page, browser and minified-asset caching in the free edition; Database cleanup for revisions, spam, tables and more; Image compression and WebP conversion |
| Cons | Needs a paid licence key for updates; Image optimisation runs on the vendor's service; Gains depend on the theme and plugins in use | Unused CSS, Google Fonts hosting and Cloudflare purge are paid; Image compression relies on the reSmush.it service; Many scheduled background jobs run on the site |
| Mentioned in our posts | — | 1 |
| Features (Speed Optimization plugins checklist) | ||
| Page cache | Yes | Yes |
| Browser cache | Yes | Yes |
| Minify CSS/JS | Yes | Yes |
| CDN | Yes | Yes |
| Object cache | Yes | No |
| Database cleanup | Yes | Yes |
| Free version | No | Yes |
| More features | ||
| Other features | Image optimisation (compression, AVIF, resize) ($), Page preloading after purge ($), Lazy loading of images ($), Font display swap and Google Fonts optimisation ($), YouTube embed placeholder ($), Cloudflare cache purge on content changes ($), WP-CLI commands for purge and licence ($) | Image compression through reSmush.it, WebP conversion of compressed images, Scheduled page cache preload, 404 error log with daily pruning, Gzip compression test, Spam comment review link, Unused CSS removal ($), Local hosting of Google Fonts ($) |
| Integrations | ||
| E-commerce | WooCommerce ($) | — |
| Plugins | Polylang ($), WPML ($) | — |
| Other | Cloudflare ($), Google Fonts ($) | reSmush.it, checkgzipcompression.com, Cloudflare ($) |
| Requires WordPress | 4.7 | 4.9 |
| Requires PHP | 7.4 | 7.2 |
| Tested up to | 7.1 | 7.1 |
| Phones home | No | No |
| External services | api.cloudflare.com, image-optimizer.flyingpress.com, license.flyingpress.com, page-optimizer.flyingpress.com, purge.flyingcdn.com, translations.flyingpress.com, api.flyinghost.com, video-thumbnails.flyingpress.com | checkgzipcompression.com, api.resmush.it, plugins.svn.wordpress.org, teamupdraft.com |