WP Rocket is an open-source web performance premium plugin for

WordPress WordPress (WP or WordPress.org) is a free and open-source content management system (CMS) written in hypertext preprocessor language and paired with a MySQL or MariaDB database with supported HTTPS. Features include a plugin architecture ...

. The plugin uses caching to accelerate website loading times. Launched in July 2013, WP Rocket has over 1.6 million active installs.

History

WP Rocket is the first product of WP Media, a company created in 2014 that provides software solutions to optimize web performance. WP Media is headquartered in Lyon, France, and has an employee base working remotely in multiple locations throughout the world. After the launch of WP Rocket, the company released other web performance solutions. In 2016, WP Media launched Imagify, a global image optimization service. In 2020, WP Media launched RocketCDN, a

content delivery network A content delivery network, or content distribution network (CDN), is a geographically distributed network of proxy servers and their data centers. The goal is to provide high availability and performance by distributing the service spatially re ...

service. In May 2021, WP Media was acquired by the group.ONE.

Usage

In June 2021, WP Rocket is the 7th most popular WordPress plugins and powers 3.69% of the top 1M websites in the world.

Licensing

WP Rocket is

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released under

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version 2. WP Rocket source code is publicly available from its

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repository.

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