As of April 2026, Debloat is a WordPress speed plugin with 30K+ active installations and a 4.8/5 rating from 41 reviews. It has been downloaded 345K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 5.0+ and PHP 7.4.1+. Available on WordPress.org since 2021. Recently updated within the last 3 months. Downloads are down 42% this week. Support resolution rate: 0%. Top alternative: Speed Optimizer – The All-In-One….
4.8/541 reviews
30K+active installs
0%resolved
5 yearssince 2021
Overview
A plugin for Advanced Users to Optimize CSS Delivery, Remove Unused CSS, Optimize Javascript Delivery with defer or delay load JS.
The perfect toolkit for improving your Core Web Vitals and overall website performance.
WARNING: It’s a powerful speed optimization plugin that’s meant for power users who know what they’re doing.
Features:
- Optimize CSS: Fix Render-Blocking.
- Minify and Inline CSS.
- Remove Unused CSS (Advanced).
- Optimize JS: Fix Render-Blocking with defer.
- Delay Load some JS until user interaction.
- Adds resource hints for faster Google Fonts.
- Built-in optimizations for Elementor (free version).
- Built-in optimizations for WPBakery Page Builder.
- Compatible with all themes and plugins.
- Supports all modern browsers (no IE11 support).
- Optimized code benchmarked fo…
Ratings & Reviews
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Recent Reviews
best plugin for Remove Unused CSS, Optimize JS
by ehs2529476·3 months ago
best plugin for Remove Unused CSS, Optimize JS
Thank you
The Code of Javascript is conflict Some plugins
by rorobert·9 months ago
The Debloat is best plugin but it is conflict for the gt translate plugin
The debloat plugin is removed the gt translate in the website.
So kindly see this matter
Thanks
Delay js not working
by Sunny·1 year ago
Works okay, but doesn’t work very well with Sage and Bedrock
by hirngesicht·1 year ago
My website uses Sage 10 with the Bedrock boilerplate, and for some reason I just can’t exclude some Javascript files from delayed loading. It’s a pity, because Engrish text in the plugin aside, it’s great.
Nice plugin. The combine CSS feature works great!
by Mark·1 year ago·2 replies
I used to pay and use Perfmatters to combine CSS, as I didn’t like the WP-Rocket implementation. But stopped using the former after finding Debloat to save some money. I’m not sure if it works as well as Perfmatters, but does do what I need it to do. It fixes all the PageSpeed insight recommendations about CSS, and my site loads very fast with it enabled for combining CSS, with WP Rocket handling everything else. I have a complex membership site with 60+ plugins and was able to get page load down to 0.9 – 1 second, even for logged-in users – and AffiliateWP still tracks cookies properly, and all else works. On the blog I also have, I got page load down to 200 – 300ms. Like other combine CSS plugins, I had to obviously add some exceptions to get some things to display properly, but that is pretty standard stuff. Anyways, this plugin is very good. I highly recommend it if you need to combine CSS.
Download Trends
Today: 193Yesterday: 229This week: 3KPeriod total: 105K
Compatibility
| WordPress | 5.0+ requiredTested up to 6.9.4 |
| PHP | 7.4.1+ required |
Version Adoption
v1.2
54.9%
v1.3
45.0%
v1.1
0.1%
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Frequently Asked Questions
Changelog
1.3.0
- Improved: A new performant way to load translations.
- Fixed: Typos in the translations.
- Updated: CMB2 dependency to the latest stable release.
Contributors
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