WP Rocket is the more common of the two in our index: it runs on 1,023 websites against 6 for Newspack. Counts come from real scans, not vendor claims.
Newspack is an open-source publishing platform built on WordPress for small to medium sized news organizations. It is an “opinionated” platform that stakes out clear, best-practice positions on technology, design, and business practice for news publishers.
WP Rocket is a caching and performance optimisation plugin to improve the loading speed of WordPress websites.
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