Core Web Vitals (CWV) is the new ranking factor
As of April 2026, Core Web Vitals & PageSpeed Booster is a WordPress cache plugin with 1.0K+ active installations and a 3.9/5 rating from 15 reviews. It has been downloaded 97K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 3.0+ and PHP false+. Available on WordPress.org since 2021. Recently updated within the last 3 months. Downloads are up 22% this week. Top alternative: WP-Optimize – Cache, Compress images….
Google announced that “Core Web Vitals” are going to be a significant ranking signal for websites. In fact, Core Web Vitals or the page experience signal is going to become a requirement for a page to appear in Google’s Top Stories.
Don’t use this plugin, the plugin will add cwv-image to all your images and when users call image on your site, the image will return 404, causing you huge loss of traffic. This plugin is so bad and evil that even when you deactivate and delete it from your site, the cwv-image will remain affecting your site images. I have to use another plugin to remove the cwv-image to stop the 404 evil this plugin did to my site. The plugin has shown us evidence that not all free plugins have genuine intention. Some are fraudulent with serious criminal motive to cause harm to your site unknown to you if not vigilant. We have spent thousands of dollars to purchase and subscribe plugins which we believe is more better than some completely free lifetime plugin who may have some fraudulent intentions. This plugin has made us to remove several completely free plugins from our site. One of our purchased plugins is the one currently helping us to redirect the 404 image links created by this plugin to the rightful permanent links.
I don’t normally leave reviews but this thing trashed the site. Pictures, margins, menus, everything. Uninstalling didn’t fix it. I had to restore from backup. You will regret it if you install this.
The plugin works fine alright. Bulk-changes all images to webp which is a valuable feature.
But unfortunatedly it breaks spelling in german as it replaces all “Umlaut” with gremlins (¢#^¶)
Hello Magazine 3 team,
I tried this plugin on my website which uses a theme named Vehica this week. The result on Google Page speed Insights was good and my mobile score matched my desktop score at 99% so top marks.
However my mobile menu was no longer useable and there is no way the drop down would work.
I am using WP Rocket and Cloudflare also. I disabled both of these plugins and cleared my cache and browser and still the same problem. I then turned of the cache, disabled all CSS features in your plugin and no change. My mobile menu still did ot work.
Finally a deleted your plugin and the menu was active once again.
I would love for your plugin to work for me and I would also even pay a small yearly fee if it did but at the moment its not good enough.
Sad
This plugin caused significant issues with my blog posts that were previously performing well in Google search rankings, resulting in a noticeable drop. I am extremely dissatisfied with the outcome.
| WordPress | 3.0+ requiredTested up to 6.9.4 |
| PHP | false+ required |
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