WP Rocket

WP Rocket is an open-source web performance premium plugin for WordPress. The plugin uses caching to accelerate website loading times.

Launched in July 2013,[1] WP Rocket has over 1.6 million active installs.[2]

History

WP Rocket is the first product of WP Media, a company created in 2014 that provides software to optimize web performance. WP Media is headquartered in Lyon, France and was founded by Julio Potier, Jonathan Buttigieg and Jean-Baptiste Marchand-Arvier, and has an employee base working remotely in multiple locations throughout the world.

In 2016, WP Media launched Imagify, WordPress plugin that makes images lighter.

In 2020, WP Media launched RocketCDN, a content delivery network service.

In May 2021, WP Media was acquired by the group.ONE.[3] The Cash Out podcast released an episode on May 30th, 2023 featuring Jonathan Buttigieg, in which it was reported that the sale of WP Media was valued between 25 and 75 million euros.[4] Buttigieg neither confirmed nor denied the mentioned amount during the episode.

Usage

The plugin works natively on Apache and Nginx web servers. A customizable configuration for Nginx called Rocket-Nginx (created and maintained by SatelliteWP), dedicated to the WP Rocket and Nginx, allows serving cached files without having to initialize WordPress or make database calls. This enhances the speed and the number of visitors a website can support. The latest version of Rocket-Nginx (version 3.x) enables query string management, file inclusion and custom expiration.[5]

As of August 2023, WP Rocket was the 3rd most popular WordPress plugins and is on 4.18% of the top 1M websites in the world.[6]

Licensing

WP Rocket is free software released under GNU General Public License version 2. WP Rocket source code is publicly available from its GitHub repository.[7]

References
  1. "WP Rocket Launches Commercial Caching Plugin for WordPress". WordPress Tavern. 2014-05-01. Retrieved 2021-06-03.
  2. "Caching Plugin for WordPress⎪WP Rocket". WP Rocket. Retrieved 2021-06-03.
  3. April 2021, Mayank Sharma 12. "One.com owner snaps up WordPress experts WP Media". TechRadar. Retrieved 2021-06-03.
  4. "Une cession au goût de revanche sur la vie - Jonathan Buttigieg - WP Média". Cash Out Podcast.
  5. "A faster WordPress site with Rocket-Nginx 3.0". SatelliteWP. December 5, 2022.
  6. "WordPress Plugins Usage Distribution in the Top 1 Million Sites". trends.builtwith.com. Retrieved 2021-06-03.
  7. wp-media/wp-rocket, WP Media, 2021-06-02, retrieved 2021-06-03
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