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WP Speed Pilot

A WordPress speed plugin, with an AI pilot that checks every page still works.

The WP Speed Pilot home page in a browser window: the headline “WordPress at full speed. From $2 a month.” beside a dashboard showing a mobile PageSpeed score of 98.

What it is

WP Speed Pilot is a WordPress plugin with a cloud service behind it. You install the plugin, connect the site and pick a preset. The heavy optimisation work runs on WP Speed Pilot's own servers instead of the customer's hosting, and each page is processed once rather than on every visit. That is what keeps the price at $2 a month.

It grew out of my client work. I fix slow WordPress sites every week, and I wanted one tool that does the whole job: page cache, critical CSS, delayed scripts, WebP images and a separate copy for phones. On a live Elementor site, measured with Google PageSpeed Insights in October 2026, it took the mobile score from 47 to 98 and the page weight from 6.6 MB to 0.6 MB.

The part I am proudest of is the AI pilot. When something looks wrong after optimisation, the owner just describes it. The pilot opens the page in a real browser on a phone and a laptop, compares it with the original, fixes only that one script or element on that one page, then checks the score held. If a change does not help, it rolls it back.

My role
Founder, designer and developer
Product type
WordPress performance SaaS
Built for
WordPress site owners, freelancers and agencies
Launched
2026
Pricing
From $24 a year, 14-day free trial
AI tool used
Claude

What it does

  • Page cache, with a separate copy for phones
  • Critical CSS and unused-CSS removal
  • Scripts delayed until the page is visible, with click replay
  • WebP, lazy-loaded and phone-sized images
  • AI Auto-Tune: tests key pages and keeps the fastest safe settings
  • AI pilot that checks pages in a real browser and fixes one thing at a time
  • One-click rollback for every settings change
  • Works with Elementor, Gutenberg, Divi, Bricks and WooCommerce

Tech specs

What WP Speed Pilot runs on, layer by layer.

WordPress plugin
  • PHP
  • React admin app
  • TypeScript
  • Vite
  • Tailwind CSS
  • Radix UI
  • TanStack Query
Optimisation server
  • Laravel 13
  • PHP 8.3
  • Filament admin
  • REST API with per-site tokens
  • Domain-bound licences
Testing & AI
  • Playwright
  • Headless Chromium
  • Google PageSpeed Insights API
  • Lighthouse
  • LLM-proposed settings, each one measured
Billing & hosting
  • Paddle (merchant of record)
  • Coolify on a VPS

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