Parallelize Downloads
Enable Parallelized Downloads / Domain Sharding for your WordPress images.
5(2 reviews)
·20 active installs·Updated 9 years agoAs of April 2026, Parallelize Downloads is a WordPress images plugin with 20 active installations and a 5/5 rating from 2 reviews. It has been downloaded 4.2K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 3.0.1+ and PHP false+. Available on WordPress.org since 2017. Last updated 9 years ago — may have compatibility concerns. Top alternative: Autoptimize.
5/52 reviews
20active installs
4.2K+total downloads
9 yearssince 2017
Overview
This plugin enables Parallelized Downloads / Domain Sharding for your WordPress images.
This is a good alternative if you don’t want to pay for a CDN but have an image heavy site.
Domain sharding is a technique used to increase the amount of simultaneously downloaded resources for a particular website by using multiple domains.
This allows websites to be delivered faster to users as they do not have to wait for the previous set of resources to be downloaded before beginning the next set.
This plugin is only useful if you have an image heavy site. For sites with very few images you may see an increase in load times with this plugin due to increased numbers of DNS lookups.
See here for more information on Domain Sharding
Ratings & Reviews
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Compatibility
| WordPress | 3.0.1+ requiredTested up to 4.7.33 |
| PHP | false+ required |
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Changelog
1.0
- Initial release
Contributors
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