Image optimisation plugin showdown — follow-up

Every build of mine starts with the same six plugins and grows from there.

Caching is the single biggest performance win on cheap shared hosting.

Rank Math won me over after Yoast nagged me one time too many.

Would love to hear how you all handle this.

Curious what everyone else here thinks about it.

Every build of mine starts with the same six plugins and grows from there.

My baseline list is almost identical to yours.

Cloudflare plus a light cache plugin is enough for most small sites.

SMTP with a transactional service fixed all my contact-form complaints.

That has been my experience as well.

Rank Math here too — the schema options alone are worth it.

I disagree slightly, but I can see where you are coming from.

SMTP with a transactional service fixed all my contact-form complaints.

Cloudflare plus a light cache plugin is enough for most small sites.