Best WooCommerce Caching Plugins for 2026: Tested and Compared

WooCommerce caching is harder than regular WordPress caching. Cart pages, checkout, and My Account are dynamic by nature and must never be cached — but your product and category pages absolutely should be. Most caching plugins handle this badly by default, leading to either a fast but broken store, or a safe but slow one. This guide covers the plugins that get WooCommerce caching right.

What makes WooCommerce caching different

Standard page caching serves a pre-built HTML file to every visitor. That works fine for a blog. For WooCommerce, it breaks things fast: cached cart quantities, stale stock counts, wrong prices after a sale, and — worst of all — other customers' checkout data served to the wrong session.

A good WooCommerce caching plugin must automatically exclude cart, checkout, and My Account pages, handle AJAX cart fragments without triggering uncached responses for the whole page, and invalidate product page cache correctly when stock levels change.

WP Rocket — Best overall for WooCommerce

WP Rocket is the most widely recommended caching plugin for WooCommerce, and for good reason: it works reliably out of the box without requiring you to understand every setting. On activation it automatically excludes WooCommerce's cart, checkout, and My Account pages and configures sensible defaults for the rest.

LiteSpeed Cache — Best free option (on LiteSpeed hosting)

LiteSpeed Cache is arguably the most powerful free caching solution for WordPress and WooCommerce — but there is a significant catch. To use its server-level caching (the feature that makes it genuinely fast), you need to be running on a LiteSpeed or OpenLiteSpeed web server. On Nginx or Apache, it falls back to a standard PHP-based caching approach.

If you're on LiteSpeed-based hosting (A2 Hosting, Hostinger, Namecheap, Cloudways with OpenLiteSpeed, or a dedicated LiteSpeed server), this plugin is exceptional. Server-level caching bypasses PHP entirely for cached pages — not even WordPress loads — which is the fastest possible delivery method.

NitroPack — Best all-in-one optimisation

NitroPack takes a different approach to every other plugin here: it manages everything on its own servers rather than on yours. Your HTML is sent to NitroPack's cloud infrastructure, optimised, and then served back through their global CDN. You get page caching, image optimisation, CSS/JS minification, and CDN delivery in a single subscription.

The results are often dramatic. NitroPack reports a 52% Core Web Vitals pass rate across its platform — significantly above the web average. The trade-off is cost and control: pricing is based on monthly pageviews, which can make it expensive for high-traffic WooCommerce stores.

FlyingPress — Best value premium plugin

FlyingPress is less well-known than WP Rocket, but it's worth serious consideration for WooCommerce stores. It combines page caching, CSS/JS optimisation, image optimisation, and a built-in Core Web Vitals monitor in one relatively affordable package. Its WooCommerce handling is solid, with sensible defaults for cart and checkout exclusions.

W3 Total Cache — Most powerful (free tier available)

W3 Total Cache is the most feature-complete caching plugin available, with a free tier that covers page caching, object caching, database caching, browser caching, and CDN integration. The problem is complexity: 16 settings tabs, dozens of options per tab, and zero hand-holding. For developers who know what they're doing, it's excellent. For everyone else, it's the plugin most likely to break a WooCommerce store.

WP Super Cache — Best for simple sites

WP Super Cache is made by Automattic (the company behind WordPress and WooCommerce), which means it has native WooCommerce compatibility baked in. It's straightforward, reliable, and free. What it lacks is everything beyond basic page caching: no image optimisation, no CSS/JS minification, no CDN. If you need a dead-simple caching layer and plan to pair it with Autoptimize for code optimisation, it's a solid choice.

Autoptimize — Best for code optimisation

Autoptimize is not a caching plugin — it's a code optimiser. It aggregates, minifies, and defers CSS and JavaScript to speed up page rendering without touching page caching. Pair it with WP Super Cache or LiteSpeed Cache for a complete solution.

The critical WooCommerce caveat: JavaScript aggregation frequently breaks WooCommerce's variable product selectors, AJAX add-to-cart, and dynamic pricing. If you enable JS optimisation, you will likely need to create exclusion rules for WooCommerce's scripts. The plugin makes this manageable, but it requires testing.

Perfmatters — Best script manager for WooCommerce

Perfmatters is also not a caching plugin — it's a script manager and performance utility. Its headline feature for WooCommerce is disabling the WooCommerce cart fragments AJAX request (wc-ajax=get_refreshed_fragments) when the cart is empty. This single change can meaningfully reduce server load and TTFB on WooCommerce stores where most visitors have empty carts.

Which plugin is right for your WooCommerce store?

Here's a quick decision framework based on your situation:

Why caching only goes so far

Every plugin in this guide improves WooCommerce performance meaningfully. But they all share the same fundamental constraint: WooCommerce's cart, checkout, and any personalised pages cannot be cached. These are exactly the pages your conversion rate depends on.

The architectural reason is covered in detail in our WooCommerce speed optimisation guide. The short version: PHP renders these pages synchronously on every request, and no caching plugin can change that. A headless WooCommerce frontend sidesteps this entirely by rebuilding the storefront in React — delivering the speed of static pages for browsing, with a clean API-driven checkout that's isolated from the PHP overhead.

If you've applied caching and still aren't happy with the results, headless is the next step. Read our guide to what headless WooCommerce is to understand whether it's the right move for your store.