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Aruba HiSpeed Cache
The Aruba speed boost that refuses to leave your site.
GrowingPoor rating
46/100
Recent updates cause site crashes and the plugin cannot be permanently disabled.
Active installs
~150,000
our estimate · wp.org shows 100k+
Rating
3.0★
10 ratings
Trend · vs a year ago
+187%
Growing fast
142 → 407 installs/day
What to watch out for
- MAJORverified rating is 3.00★
Downloads over time
real new installs per day · release spikes shown separately from the trend2025-04-302025-08-082025-11-162026-02-232026-06-03
organicrelease spikerelease tailorganic trend · 14d rolling median
Growing fast · +187% in the last year
142/day a year ago→407/day today
Reviews
what people actually sayAruba HiSpeed Cache is a host-specific caching plugin that has developed a poor reputation due to a series of updates that introduced serious instability, with the main caveat being that recent versions actively break sites and the plugin cannot always be fully disabled by the user.
What people like
- +Automatic cache invalidation when a page or post is modified, removing the need for manual cache clearing from the hosting panel
- +General satisfaction with the plugin when it works correctly×2
Common complaints
- −Updates introduced breaking changes that made WordPress sites unstable or completely unusable (since 3.0.0)×3
- −Object cache feature crashes sites outright, with no safe recovery path other than blocking the plugin entirely
- −Plugin significantly slows down the WordPress admin panel, making day-to-day site management very difficult×2
- −Plugin re-activates itself after being disabled, and Aruba support confirmed users cannot permanently turn it off
- −Inconsistent behaviour across sites with identical themes and plugins — works on some, crashes others
- −Support does not engage on the WordPress.org forum and redirects users to open private tickets, making public troubleshooting impossible
Review trustMostly organic
- 3.00★Verified rating — holds steady vs the raw 3.00★
- 20%One-shot reviewers — most reviewers are active community members
- past spikeReview timing — up to 33% of all reviews landed in a single month
Reviews per month · 5★ vs lower
2024-07-142025-07-092026-06-04
5★ reviews1–4★ reviews
All-time ratings · 10 total
Latest reviews · 10 analyzed
- 2026-02-27★★★★★Compromette funzioni di wordpressmatteoprogettosrl
- 2026-02-27★★★★★Robe da pazziteamdaccordi1-shot
- 2026-01-20★★★★★instabilecrossi72
- 2026-01-20★★★★★Il plugin della mortegiammi73
- 2025-01-30★★★★★Ottimodolceremy
- 2024-07-03★★★★★Era perfettoalex1x
- 2022-08-04★★★★★Ottimo pluginsnowday
- 2022-07-15★★★★★Ottimopaolabor
- 2022-03-23★★★★★Ottima integrazione con il sistema di caching Arubaanto751-shot
- 2022-03-15★★★★★Utilissimoste18k
Releases
recent versions from WordPress.org SVNAlternatives to Aruba HiSpeed Cache
Top Speed plugins, ranked by score.For developers & the curious
the raw signals behind the grade — none of this is on the friendly summary aboveDownload signals
Baselines are computed on organic days only — release spikes and their tails are excluded, so they're not inflated by the auto-update wave.
285
Baseline · median of last 7 organic days
401
Prior 7-day baseline
163
Floor · 25th percentile over 14 days
339
Latest day · 2026-06-03(organic)
-28.9%
Week-over-week organic trend
Review signals
Concentration and drive-by metrics drive the review-burst and fake-review flags. 30–40% solo reviewers is normal; we only flag the extremes.
33%
Max month share · biggest single 30-day window
2.38
Distribution CV · <0.6 even, >1.5 bursty
50%
5★ share in analyzed sample
20%
Solo reviewers · only this one wp.org activity
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Volume velocity · last 6mo vs prior 6mo
3.00 → 3.00★
Sample avg · raw → solo-filtered