Nitropack offers an integrated CDN and an all-in-one plugin for increasing or improving Pagespeed and Core Web Vitals.
But it got left behind in the Core Web Vitals rank, and it is no longer the best caching plugin. Its pricing hasn’t updated to reflect its impact, which is less than much cheaper plugins.
✨Best alternative: Flyingpress
Nitropack offers 5 optimization levels, one of which is manual, allowing you to set up all Nitropack options manually.
| Functionality | Nitropack | Flyingpress |
|---|---|---|
| Tools to improve Core Web Vitals LCP | ✔️ | ✔️ |
| Tools to improve Core Web Vitals CLS | – | – |
| CDN | ✔️ | (3$ 100gb/mo) |
| Critical CSS | ✔️ | ✔️ |
| Cloudflare integration | ✔️ | ✔️ |
| Cloudflare APO integration | – | – |
| Database Optimization | (Advanced Database Cleaner) | ✔️ |
| Lazyload + Image Optimization + WebP | ✔️ | ✔️ |
| DNS prefetching, preloading | ✔️ | ✔️ |
| Remove unused CSS | ✔️ | ✔️ |
The incorrect use of Nitropack may lead to worse LCP and CLS metrics. It also may lead to SEO changes, as delaying the JavaScript of a slider plugin or any other can hide the HTML content from Google’s crawl bot. Failing on mobile-friendly tests is also a possibility when delaying JavaScript incorrectly.’
Google’s Pagespeed doesn’t check or have a user-interaction feature to give your website a real user testing experience; you must ensure you’re passing Core Web Vitals field data.
Having good lab data with Nitropack while using any of their JavaScript optimizations doesn’t guarantee a good score. You must also certify that you’re passing with field data.
Get your Core Web Vitals optimized and your pages faster!
