WP Rocket vs. Hummingbird: Which is the best one?

5 Reasons to Choose WP Rocket over Hummingbird

This is what makes WP Rocket your best option

Trust and Popularity: You want to use a plugin with a proven track record that already optimizes over 4 million websites.
Perfect for beginners: You’re looking for a simple and quick solution offering automated optimizations to speed up your website without touching any settings or dealing with a complex interface. You can relax and save time and effort.
Delivers immediate results: You want a fast and easy setup that boosts your website immediately – you’ll see an instant speed improvement in your website performance.
Ensures excellent compatibility: You’re looking for the highest chance to benefit from out-of-the-box compatibility with hosting providers, themes, and plugins. With WP Rocket, you’ll likely avoid bad surprises when boosting your website automatically.
Offers knowledgeable and friendly support: You will always rely on our Rocketeers to achieve the best performance results – you’ll never be left alone with questions or requests.

The Same Purpose
But Not the Same Plugin

Discover the main differences between WP Rocket and Hummingbird

Performance

Hummingbird is a caching plugin developed by WPMU DEV. It offers good overall speed optimization but doesn’t address some of the PageSpeed recommendations that significantly affect the score, such as Reduce Unused JS and Delay JS Execution.
The Pro plans comes with scheduled performance reports and uptime monitoring.

WP Rocket offers blazing-fast speed results, as well as plenty of optimization features that are especially helpful for more complex websites.
The plugin is designed to improve Core Web vitals and address Google PageSpeed recommendations.
The list of available features is long and most are applied automatically.

Compatibility

Hummingbird is compatible with WooCommerce and WPML. It doesn’t offer any solutions in its settings to resolve issues with other plugins that are not fully compatible with page caching. WP Rocket provides dynamic and mandatory cookies as a solution to this specific issue.

WP Rocket is compatible with 99% of hosts (and the only caching plugin allowed by WordPress.com and Pressable). It’s also compatible with the most popular tools, themes, plugins. Furthermore, the team is constantly working on removing any incompatibilities.

Updates

Both plugins are regularly updated and you can easily access their changelogs for further information.

Although Hummingbird is frequently updated, it lacks crucial features to optimize Core Web Vitals, such as Automatic Lazy Rendering and Critical Images Optimization.

WP Rocket‘s team of web performance experts is constantly adjusting the plugin to address the latest web performance requirements and provide great user experience. On average, 4 major versions (new features, big improvements) are released per year, and as minor versions as needed every month (bug fixes, small enhancements).

Ease of Use

Hummingbird has a very easy setup. It runs tests straight upon activation and recommends some basic optimization options. But it needs to be configured: some basic features (like caching for example) are not enabled automatically. Once you activate them, expect an overwhelmingly long list of options to fine-tune.

WP Rocket probably has the easiest setup you can imagine (you’re done in 3 minutes tops). It applies 80% of web performance best practices automatically, without having to enable any options. Literally, anyone can speed up their website using WP Rocket. No coding skills are needed although advanced users always have room to play around with the features.

Support

Both plugins offer support: something less to worry about!

Hummingbird provides ticket support for Pro users and, additionally, a chat service for upgraded users.

With WP Rocket, a friendly, technical support team of 38 members based worldwide are available for all your questions, no matter which type of license you have. They help you achieve the best performance results possible.

Price

Did you know that improving your site’s speed by 0.1 seconds can increase conversion rates by 8%? Do the math for your business, and you’ll be amazed.

Hummingbird starts from $36 yearly for 1 website.

WP Rocket is premium with no free version. Price starts at $59/year for one website. It offers a 14-day Money Back guarantee.

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Comparison at a Glance

All you need to know about WP Rocket vs. Hummingbird

Set Up

Setup is simple, fast and intuitive (it takes 3 minutes flat)

80% of web performance best practices are applied right upon activation (without having to enable any options)

Performance

Blazing fast + many possibilities to fine-tune your speed

Designed to improve Core Web Vitals and address Google PageSpeed recommendations

Support & Updates

Friendly technical support for all your questions and potential issues

Regularly updated with new features, enhancements, bug fixes

Compatibility

Compatible with 99% of hosts

Dynamic and mandatory cookies solution when used with plugins that are not fully compatible with caching

Price

From $59/year (support and updates are included)

14-day money back guarantee to test the plugin

Hummingbird

Set Up

Setup is simple and fast

Some features are not enabled automatically and need to be configured

Performance

Powerful and fast

Does not address some specific PageSpeed Insights recommendations

Support & Updates

Support Included for Hummingbird Pro users

Frequently updated but not at the same rate as WP Rocket

Compatibility

Compatible with most hosts and servers

Limited usage with plugins that are not compatible with caching (e.g., ecommerce, multilingual plugins)

Price

From $36/year

30-day product guarantee

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Don’t Just Take Our Word For It

Here’s what people think of WP Rocket vs. Hummingbird

All in One and ready to go – just perfect!

I've tried other cache plugins, but WP Rocket is much easier and better so it's pointless to overcomplicate my website optimization process. All in One and ready to go – just perfect! + their blog gives lots of information to set up and any issue you could think of.
Stefan Terziyski

Reliable, easy to use, a time-saver

Very easy to use and powerful. I am using it now on all my websites and also install it for my clients. Very pleased. As someone who used WP Super Cache, Hummingbird and everything else under the sun, not wasting hours with 3-4 separate plugins and seeing horrible loading times is already a huge advantage.
Ramona Jar

6 Good Reasons
to Switch

91% * of our customers used a free cache plugin before switching to WP Rocket.
Here are the most common reasons why they decided to change:

*Source: Customer Survey January 2020

The easiest setup
Improved performance results
Unique WP Rocket features
Won’t break your website
Excellent customer support
Constant updates and improvements

Why So Many Website Owners
Have Said Yes To WP Rocket

A perfect plugin for every WordPress website

Immediate Results

Install it, activate it, relax, and enjoy the speed boost: WP Rocket automatically applies 80% of web performance best practices right upon activation (yes, even if you didn’t enable any option).

No need to touch the code, the default configuration will do the magic.

WP Rocket offers powerful caching features

Powerful Features

Page caching, browser caching, or GZIP compression are only some of the default features that will make your site faster in a blink.

And suppose you don’t settle for the standard settings. In that case, WP Rocket includes advanced features such as fonts preloading, delay of JS execution, lazy loading,…and we’re always adding more.

Unique Compatibilities

Keep using your favorite tools without worrying about compatibility.

WP Rocket is the only caching plugin accepted by the top managed WordPress hosting providers: WP Engine, Kinsta, and Pressable.

Our team continuously works with themes and third-party plugins developers to avoid conflicts between our products.

WP Rocket is compatible with many hostings, themes and plugins

Updates and Support

When you’re stuck on a technical problem, your business ends up suffering as well.

But WP Rocket has your back, always. Our developer and product teams work hard to implement enhancements, fix bugs, and ship constant updates.
Friendly support is also included in the price and is available in different time zones.