On watchPerformance
W3 Total Cache Pro
by BoldGrid
$99 / year
List price — check on the vendor site
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Our take
The oldest cache plugin in the category — the free tier still works, Pro adds fragment caching and a CDN dashboard.
Health check
On watchOn watch: Only 1 of 9 threads resolved on the wordpress.org forum of the free version, last 2 months.
It stays listed. A product goes on watch when it has no update in 90+ days, was tested with an older WordPress minor than 7.1.3, or has under 50% of forum threads resolved. Details in the curation rules →
- On the market since
- 2009
- Last update
- 1 Oct 20266 days ago
- Tested with WordPress
- 7.1.3
- Requires PHP
- 7.4+minimum version
- Active installs (wordpress.org)
- 900k+free version
- wordpress.org rating
- 4.45.4k ratings
- Forum threads resolved (free version, last 2 months)
- 1 of 9wordpress.org forum
- Checked on
- 7 Oct 2026
1 of 9 threads resolved on the wordpress.org forum of the free version, last 2 months. This is not a measure of premium support response time.
wordpress.org figures describe the free version.
Sources: wordpress.org listing
