WP Rocket
WP Rocket is an open-source web performance premium plugin for WordPress. The plugin uses caching to accelerate website loading times. Launched in July 2013, WP Rocket has over 1.6 million active installs. History. WP Rocket is the first product of WP Media, a company created in 2014 and providing software solutions to optimize web performance. WP Media is headquartered in Lyon, France and has an employee base working remotely in multiple locations throughout the world. After the launch of WP Rocket, the company released other web performance solutions. In 2016, WP Media launched Imagify, a global image  optimisation service. In 2020, WP Media launched RocketCDN, a content delivery network service. In May 2021, WP Media has been acquired by group.ONE. Usage. In June 2021, WP Rocket is the 7th most popular WordPress plugins, and powers 3.69% of the top 1M websites in the world. Licensing. WP Rocket is free software released under GNU General Public License version 2. WP Rocket source code is publicly available from its GitHub repository.