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Asset CleanUp: Page Speed Booster
Lightning fast pages await if you can survive the complex setup.
HealthyDeclining
87/100
This tool provides powerful speed optimization through asset unloading but requires careful configuration and study.
Active installs
~152,000
our estimate · wp.org shows 100k+
Rating
4.9★
1,558 ratings
Trend · vs a year ago
-40%
Declining fast
600 → 360 installs/day
What to watch out for
- MINORdownloads down 40% vs a year ago
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
Declining fast · -40% in the last year
600/day a year ago→360/day today
Reviews
what people actually sayAsset CleanUp is well-regarded as an effective page speed booster that helps developers selectively unload unnecessary assets per page, though it carries a steep learning curve and tutorials that users find unclear.
What people like
- +Effectively improves page speed by allowing selective unloading of CSS/JS assets on a per-page basis×6
- +Useful across multiple sites over long-term use×2
- +Easy to use once learned×2
Common complaints
- −Steep learning curve that demands careful attention to configure correctly
- −Tutorials are unclear and do not adequately guide new users through setup and testing
Review trustReviews look organic
- 4.93★Verified rating — holds steady vs the raw 4.90★
- 11%One-shot reviewers — most reviewers are active community members
Reviews per month · 5★ vs lower
2024-03-162025-05-102026-06-04
5★ reviews1–4★ reviews
All-time ratings · 1,558 total
Latest reviews · 90 analyzed
- 2026-06-02★★★★★Excellentpablopro10
- 2026-05-26★★★★★Essential for optimizationElmoonfire
- 2026-05-22★★★★★It makes pages faster!Willem 2
- 2026-05-15★★★★★Works great!Mary Bouldin
- 2026-05-05★★★★★Best for Scripts ManagementEdward Samuel (Enigmaking)
- 2026-05-04★★★★★Very usefulemmebar
- 2026-04-28★★★★★Works as promisedfert
- 2026-03-26★★★★★Great job speeding my websitesjohnboyfred11
- 2026-03-03★★★★★Use it for yearsditko74
- 2026-02-27★★★★★It does exactly what it says in the tindanielepais
Releases
recent versions from WordPress.org SVNAlternatives to Asset CleanUp
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.
530
Baseline · median of last 7 organic days
354
Prior 7-day baseline
701
Floor · 25th percentile over 14 days
13,487
Mean release-day peak (30d)
903
Latest day · 2026-06-03(organic)
+49.7%
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.
12%
Max month share · biggest single 30-day window
0.72
Distribution CV · <0.6 even, >1.5 bursty
97%
5★ share in analyzed sample
11%
Solo reviewers · only this one wp.org activity
+21%
Volume velocity · last 6mo vs prior 6mo
4.93 → 4.93★
Sample avg · raw → solo-filtered