The safest Caching plugins for WordPress

Caching plugins sit deep in your stack and touch how every page is served, so abandonment can break a site quietly. The most popular WordPress caching plugins, ranked by safety.

Ranked by Plugin Risk Score — i.e. by maintenance and safety signals, not features. Scores are live from the WordPress.org Plugin API and change over time.

1. 1 WP Super Cache wp-super-cache 100%
2. 2 W3 Total Cache w3-total-cache 100%
3. 3 WP Fastest Cache – WordPress Cache Plugin wp-fastest-cache 87%
4. 4 LiteSpeed Cache litespeed-cache 80%
5. 5 Autoptimize autoptimize 73%

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