by BoldGrid 4.4 (5,420 reviews)

W3 Total Cache

Name: W3 Total Cache
Rating: 4.4 (5420 reviews)
Author: BoldGrid

Search Engine (SEO) & Performance Optimization (WPO) via caching. Integrated caching: CDN, Page, Minify, Object, Fragment, Database support.

W3 Total Cache ranks #72 among WordPress.org plugins with 900,000+ active installations, is #11 of 1,516 in the Performance category, a 4.4/5 rating from 5,420 reviews, and was last updated Sep 4, 2026. Data from WordPress.org, refreshed twice daily — see methodology.

Compatible with WP 7.1

v2.10.6 Current Version v2.10.6

Updated 1 week ago Last Update on 04 Sep, 2026

Refreshed 11 hours ago Last Refreshed on

#11 of 1,516 in Performance Top 1% by installs Downloads -81.4% this week Actively maintained

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#72

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Active Installs

900K+

-4.3%

KW Avg Position

6.2

1 worse

Downloads

62.7M

+8,323 today

Support Resolved

56%

— No change

Rating

88%

Review 4.4 out of 5

4.4 (5,420 reviews)

Next Milestone 1M

Total Progress 25%

900K+ 1M+

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Reviews & Ratings

4.4

5,420 reviews

Overall 88%

4,057 (75%)

585 (11%)

160 (3%)

102 (2%)

516 (10%)

Support Threads Overview

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Total Threads

Resolved

Unresolved

56%

Resolution Rate

Security History

Source: WPVulnerability

56 known vulnerabilities on record · 14 in the last 24 months · checked 1 week ago

Aug 21, 2026

W3 Total Cache [w3-total-cache] < 2.10.6

CVE-2026-78438 · Fixed in v2.10.6
Aug 19, 2026

W3 Total Cache [w3-total-cache] < 2.10.5

CVE-2026-18051 · Fixed in v2.10.5
Aug 13, 2026

W3 Total Cache [w3-total-cache] < 2.10.4

CVE-2026-18109 · Fixed in v2.10.4
Jul 31, 2026

W3 Total Cache [w3-total-cache] < 2.10.3

CVE-2026-66695 · Fixed in v2.10.3
Jul 10, 2026

W3 Total Cache [w3-total-cache] < 2.10.0

CVE-2026-9282 · Fixed in v2.10.0
Jun 29, 2026

W3 Total Cache [w3-total-cache] < 2.10.0

CVE-2026-57623 · Fixed in v2.10.0
Apr 1, 2026

W3 Total Cache [w3-total-cache] < 2.9.4

CVE-2026-5032 · Fixed in v2.9.4
Mar 12, 2026

W3 Total Cache [w3-total-cache] < 2.9.2

CVE-2026-39595 · Fixed in v2.9.2
Feb 24, 2026

W3 Total Cache [w3-total-cache] < 2.9.2

CVE-2026-27384 · Fixed in v2.9.2
Oct 27, 2025

W3 Total Cache [w3-total-cache] < 2.8.13

CVE-2025-9501 · Fixed in v2.8.13

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Plugin Details

Version: 2.10.6
Last Updated: Sep 04, 2026
Requires WP: 6.0+
Tested Up To: 7.1
PHP Version: 7.4 or higher
Author: BoldGrid

Support & Rating

Rating: ★ ★ ★ ★ ☆ 4.4
Reviews: 5,420
Support Threads: 9
Resolved: 56%

Keywords

Optimize caching cdn pagespeed performance

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TL;DR

AI summary of the plugin's readme

This plugin is for WordPress site owners and developers who want to improve site speed and SEO through caching. It solves slow page load times and poor performance scores by providing integrated page, object, database, minify, and CDN caching.

CDN integration
Page caching
Minify CSS/JS/HTML
Object and database caching
Fragment caching
Browser caching with ETags
Lazy Load images
WP-CLI support

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about W3 Total Cache

Search engines like Google, measure and factor in the speed of web sites in their ranking algorithm. When they recommend a site they want to make sure users find what they're looking for quickly. So in effect you and Google should have the same objective. Speed is among the most significant success factors web sites face. In fact, your site's speed directly affects your income (revenue) — it's a fact. Some high traffic sites conducted research and uncovered the following: Google.com: +500 ms (speed decrease) -> -20% traffic loss [1] Yahoo.com: +400 ms (speed decrease) -> -5-9% full-page traffic loss (visitor left before the page finished loading) [2] Amazon.com: +100 ms (speed decrease) -> -1% sales loss [1] A thousandth of a second is not a long time, yet the impact is quite significant. Even if you're not a large company (or just hope to become one), a loss is still a loss. W3 Total Cache is your solution for faster websites, happier visitors and better results. Many of the other consequences of poor performance were discovered more than a decade ago: Lower perceived credibility (Fogg et al. 2001) Lower perceived quality (Bouch, Kuchinsky, and Bhatti 2000) Increased user frustration (Ceaparu et al. 2004) Increased blood pressure (Scheirer et al. 2002) Reduced flow rates (Novak, Hoffman, and Yung 200) Reduced conversion rates (Akamai 2007) Increased exit rates (Nielsen 2000)

There are a number of resources that have been documenting the role of performance in success on the web, W3 Total Cache exists to give you a framework to tune your application or site without having to do years of research.

It's a complete framework. Most cache plugins available do a great job at achieving a couple of performance gains. Total Cache is different because it remedies numerous performance reducing aspects of any web site. It goes farther than the basics, beyond merely reducing CPU usage (load) or bandwidth consumption for HTML pages. Equally important, the plugin requires no theme modifications, modifications to your .htaccess (mod_rewrite rules) or programming compromises to get started. Most importantly, it's the only plugin designed to optimize all practical hosting environments small or large. The options are many and setup is easy.

Rarely do readers take the time to complain. They typically just stop browsing earlier than you'd prefer and may not return altogether. This is the only plugin specifically designed to make sure that all aspects of your site are as fast as possible. Google is placing more emphasis on the speed of a site as a factor in rankings; this plugin helps with that too. It's in every web site owner's best interest is to make sure that the performance of your site is not hindering its success.

To use all features in the suite, WordPress 6.0 or higher with PHP 7.4 or higher is required.

Great question. W3 Total Cache uses several open source tools to attempt to combine and optimize CSS, JavaScript and HTML etc. Unfortunately some trial and error is required on the part of developers is required to make sure that their code can be successfully minified with the various libraries W3 Total Cache supports. Even still, if developers do test their code thoroughly, they cannot be sure that interoperability with other code your site may have. This fault does not lie with any single party here, because there are thousands of plugins and theme combinations that a given site can have, there are millions of possible combinations of CSS, JavaScript etc. A good rule of thumb is to try auto mode, work with a developer to identify the code that is not compatible and start with combine only mode (the safest optimization) and increase the optimization to the point just before functionality (JavaScript) or user interface / layout (CSS) breaks in your site. We're always working to make this more simple and straight forward in future releases, but this is not an undertaking we can realize on our own. When you find a plugin, theme or file that is not compatible with minification reach out to the developer and ask them either to provide a minified version with their distribution or otherwise make sure their code is minification-friendly.

On the contrary, as with any other action a user can perform on a site, faster performance will encourage more of it. The cache is so quickly rebuilt in memory that it's no trouble to show visitors the most current version of a post that's experiencing Digg, Slashdot, Drudge Report, Yahoo Buzz or Twitter effect.

No, on the contrary if you use the minify settings you will improve their performance by several times.

Indeed it does.

Yes.