KushalPawar Performance Optimizer

KushalPawar Performance Optimizer makes your WordPress site faster automatically — no tuning required. Activate it and it starts compressing images, lazy-loading off-screen media, deferring render-blocking scripts, and caching your pages. Everything runs locally on your own server, and the plugin never sends any data anywhere.

Features

• Automatic image compression — every new upload is compressed (JPEG/PNG) with a configurable 60–95% quality slider. 85% is visually lossless for most photos.
• WebP conversion with fallback — generates modern WebP copies and serves them via a <picture> element, falling back to the original for browsers that don’t support WebP. Works for content images, featured images, and responsive srcset variants.
• Bulk media optimization — one click compresses your entire existing media library, with a live progress bar.
• Lazy loading — adds loading="lazy" to images and iframes, while keeping your first images eager so above-the-fold content stays instant.
• Script optimization — adds defer to non-critical scripts and loads non-critical CSS asynchronously, with a safe-mode exclusion list for scripts that should not be deferred.
• Inline CSS minification — strips comments and whitespace from inline style blocks.
• Page caching — a fast file-based cache for anonymous visitors, stored in wp-content/cache/kushalpawar-performance-optimizer/, with smart invalidation on content, comment, theme, and plugin changes.
• Speed score dashboard widget — shows an estimated before/after load time, image weight saved, images optimized, and cache hit rate. Calculated locally — no external API call.
• Native settings UI — a clean tabbed screen under Settings → KushalPawar Performance Optimizer, built with WordPress admin components and vanilla JavaScript.