Image Placeholders vs WP Rocket

WP Rocket is the more common of the two in our index: it runs on 1,171 websites against 52 for Image Placeholders, and 5 sites use both. Counts come from real scans, not vendor claims.

Image Placeholders: 52
WP Rocket: 1,171

Image Placeholders

Performance plugin from the WordPress Performance Team, which determines and stores the dominant color for newly uploaded images in the media library, then uses that as a placeholder background during front end image loads.

Indexed sites: 52
Share of WordPress plugins: 1%

Well-known sites using it

All 52 sites

WP Rocket

WP Rocket is a caching and performance optimisation plugin to improve the loading speed of WordPress websites.

Indexed sites: 1,171
Share of WordPress plugins: 15%

Well-known sites using it

All 1,171 sites

Used together

5 sites run both Image Placeholders and WP Rocket. That is 10% of the sites using Image Placeholders, the smaller of the two.

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