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Asset CleanUp: Page Speed Booster icon

Asset CleanUp: Page Speed Booster

Make your website load FASTER by stopping specific styles (.CSS) & scripts (.JS) from loading. It works best with a page caching plugin / service.

By Gabe Livan·Dequeue·Free
4.9(1,551 reviews)
·100K+ active installs·Updated 1 year ago
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As of April 2026, Asset CleanUp: Page Speed Booster is a WordPress dequeue plugin with 100K+ active installations and a 4.9/5 rating from 1,551 reviews. It has been downloaded 4.9M+ times in total. Requires WordPress 4.5+ and PHP 5.6+. Available on WordPress.org since 2015. Last updated 1 year ago — may have compatibility concerns. Download volume is stable this week. Support resolution rate: 40%. Top alternative: Freesoul Deactivate Plugins – Disable….

4.9/51,551 reviews
100K+active installs
40%resolved
11 yearssince 2015

Overview

Don’t just minify & combine CSS/JavaScript files ending up with large, bloated and slow loading pages: Strip the “fat” first and get a faster website 🙂

Faster page load = Happier Visitors = More Conversions = More Revenue

There are often times when you are using a theme and a number of plugins which are enabled and run on the same page. However, you don’t need to use all of them and to improve the speed of your website and make the HTML source code cleaner (convenient for debugging purposes), it’s better to prevent those styles and scripts from loading.

For instance, you might use a plugin that generates contact forms and it loads its assets (.CSS and .JS files) in every page of your website instead of doing it only in the /contact page (if that’s…

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Ratings & Reviews

4.91,551 reviews
5 ★
1,503
4 ★
21
3 ★
6
2 ★
11
1 ★
10

Recent Reviews

Great job speeding my websites
by johnboyfred11·1 week ago

Excellent plugin for speed wish I knew enough to have a crack at Oxygen

Use it for years
by ditko74·1 month ago

Use the plugin for years on multiple websites. Free version. Definitely helps speed up pages by unloading assets. For example why do you need contact form assets on your front page? I recommend this plugin.

It does exactly what it says in the tin
by danielepais·1 month ago

Very helpful in stopping services that are not necessarily needed in some pages.

Excellent plugin
by roanne·1 month ago

J’ai augmenté considérablement mon indice de rapidité sur page speed insight grâce à ce plugin.

Makes life easyer, did wonders for my website
by olavisona·1 month ago

Helps me a lot

Download Trends

Today: 300Yesterday: 361This week: 2KPeriod total: 256K

Compatibility

WordPress4.5+ requiredTested up to 6.7.5
PHP5.6+ required

Version Adoption

v1.4
77.4%
v1.3
22.3%
v1.2
0.3%

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Frequently Asked Questions

Changelog

1.4.0.3

  • Fix: “CSS & JS Manager” — “Manage CSS/JS” — “Custom Taxonomy” was not showing the guiding information
  • Fix: When managing CSS/JS in the front-end view, plugin’s core JS file was not loading, causing some lack of functionality in the CSS/JS manager from the bottom of the page
View full changelog on WordPress.org

Contributors

Gabe LivanGabe Livan
Plugin Info
Version
1.4.0.3
Last Updated
Mar 12, 2025
WP Requires
4.5+
Tested Up To
6.7.5
PHP Requires
5.6+
Active Installs
100K+
Downloads
4.9M+
Added
Dec 3, 2015
Business
Free

Tags

dequeueminify csspage speedminify javascriptdefer css javascript

Developer

G
Gabe Livan
1 plugins0.1M+ total installs
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