Boosted gives you fast WordPress pages with page caching, image optimization, CSS/JS handling, an SEO and keyphrase panel, redirects, and a GDPR-style cookie banner. Core performance, caching, image optimization, SEO, redirects, and cookie consent features are available free, with optional Pro upgra
PricingFree downloadThe WordPress.org download is free. Pro versions, add-ons or external services may cost extra.
CompatibilityRequires WordPress 6.2 and PHP 7.4.
SourceWordPress plugins · Oct 19, 2026
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About this tool.
Boosted gives you fast WordPress pages with page caching, image optimization, CSS/JS handling, an SEO and keyphrase panel, redirects, and a GDPR-style cookie banner. Core performance, caching, image optimization, SEO, redirects, and cookie consent features are available free, with optional Pro upgrades for advanced optimization capabilities.
Open the Cache tab and turn on WP_CACHE – Boosted adds it to wp-config.php for you. If the file is not writable, the tab shows the one line to add by hand.
External services
Boosted contacts the third-party services listed below. Every one of them is reached only after you configure it or explicitly request its suggestions, so a fresh install with nothing filled in contacts nothing at all. Each entry says what triggers the request, exactly what is sent, and whether it happens in the WordPress admin or during a visitor’s page load.
Datamuse related wording
Endpoint: https://api.datamuse.com/words When: only when an authorized editor clicks “Suggest related wording” in the Boosted SEO Related Wording box on a post or page. No background queries. What is sent: the phrase explicitly entered (2–100 characters), vocabulary language (English or Spanish), and a result limit. Post content, titles, descriptions, visitor data and WordPress credentials are not included. Where: server-side from the editor. WordPress caches results per user for 15 minutes. Suggestions never change metadata automatically. Datamuse temporarily logs queries; its documentation says logs are discarded at the end of the following day. Suggestions are not search-volume data. Documentation, usage conditions and privacy: https://www.datamuse.com/api/ Datamuse announces mandatory API keys from January 1, 2027. This integration currently uses its keyless endpoint; authentication will need updating when that requirement takes effect. Service failures leave core SEO unaffected.
When: only when an administrator runs a PageSpeed measurement, and only once you have saved your own Google API key. With no key saved, no request is made.
What is sent: the public URL being tested, and your own API key.
Where: the WordPress admin only. Visitors never trigger this.
Google OAuth 2.0 – signing in for Analytics reporting
Endpoint: https://oauth2.googleapis.com/token
When: only once you have saved a GA4 Property ID and a Google service-account key, and only when a page or widget actually uses the [boosted_ga total_views] shortcode. Without either field, or without the shortcode on a page, no request is made.
What is sent: a signed assertion (a JWT) proving the request comes from your own service account. It is signed with the private key you saved; the key itself is never sent.
Where: during a front-end page load, because that is when the shortcode renders. No visitor data is included in the request, and the answer is cached for an hour so a page showing the number does not sign in on every visit.
Google Analytics Data API
Endpoint: https://analyticsdata.googleapis.com/v1beta/properties/PROPERTY_ID:runReport (PROPERTY_ID is the GA4 Property ID you saved.)
When: immediately after the sign-in above, and under the same conditions.
What is sent: your GA4 Property ID and a date range. Nothing about the visitor whose page load happened to trigger it.
Where: during a front-end page load, as above. The answer is cached for an hour, and a failure for fifteen minutes, so a broken setup does not retry on every visit.
When: when somebody submits a comment on your site, and only once you have saved both a reCAPTCHA site key and a secret key. Administrators and other users who can moderate comments are not verified.
What is sent: the reCAPTCHA response token from the visitor’s browser, your secret key, and the visitor’s IP address.
Where: this one affects your site’s visitors, not just administrators. A visitor who posts a comment has their IP address sent to Google. If you switch reCAPTCHA on, say so in your own privacy policy.
Google reCAPTCHA – script
Endpoint: https://www.google.com/recaptcha/api.js
When: loaded in every visitor’s browser on pages with a comment form, once reCAPTCHA is configured. Google sets its own cookies and collects its own data from that point; Boosted is not party to it.
When: loaded in visitors’ browsers only once you have saved a GA4 Measurement ID or a Google Tag Manager container ID. With neither saved, no script is added.
What is sent: whatever Google’s own script collects, which is Google’s to describe rather than Boosted’s. Boosted adds the tag and nothing else.
Where: your visitors’ browsers.
For all of the Google services above:
Privacy policy: https://policies.google.com/privacy Terms of service: https://policies.google.com/terms Google APIs terms of service: https://developers.google.com/terms/
Freemius – licensing, opt-in usage tracking and update delivery
Endpoint: https://wp.freemius.com and https://api.freemius.com
When: on activation WordPress shows the Freemius opt-in prompt. Only if you opt in does the plugin contact Freemius: on activation/deactivation, on licence activation or check, and on the scheduled update check.
What is sent: site URL, WordPress and PHP versions, plugin version, site language, admin email address only if you opted in, and licence state when a licence key is entered. No page content, no visitor data, no settings values, no secrets.
Where: the WordPress admin only. Visitors never trigger this. You can opt out at any time from the Freemius account menu; the plugin keeps working with free behaviour.
Privacy policy: https://freemius.com/privacy/ Terms of service: https://freemius.com/terms/
Cloudflare API – cache purge sync (Boosted Pro only)
This code is not in the free plugin. It applies to Boosted Pro, and only after you switch on Cloudflare Cache Synchronization and enter your own Cloudflare zone ID and API token.
When: after Boosted clears pages from its own page cache – when a post is published, updated or deleted, or when the whole cache is cleared.
What is sent: the URLs of the pages that were cleared (or a request to purge the whole zone), and your Cloudflare API token as the authorization header. No page content, no visitor data.
Where: from your server to Cloudflare. Visitors never trigger this.
Privacy policy: https://www.cloudflare.com/privacypolicy/ Terms of service: https://www.cloudflare.com/terms/
AI provider through WordPress – SEO metadata drafts (Boosted Pro only)
This code is not in the free plugin. It applies to Boosted Pro on WordPress 7.0 or later, only after you switch on the AI Meta Description & Title Assistant and connect an AI provider yourself under Settings > Connectors (for example Anthropic, Google or OpenAI, each with its own WordPress plugin and your own API key). Boosted does not contact any AI service itself and never holds an API key; it asks WordPress’s built-in AI client, which sends the request to the provider you connected.
When: when you generate drafts under SEO > Automation, up to 10 posts at a time.
What is sent: for each post, its ID, title, focus keyphrase and up to the first 1,500 characters of its text (without HTML, shortcodes or links), plus your site name. No visitor data. The drafts that come back change nothing until you approve them.
Where: from your server to the provider you connected. Its terms and privacy policy are those of that provider.
Google Tag Manager – local copy of gtag.js (Boosted Pro only)
This code is not in the free plugin. It applies to Boosted Pro, and only after you switch on Local Analytics Hosting while Boosted adds Google Analytics to your site.
When: once a day, from WP-Cron.
What is sent: your Google Analytics measurement ID, to download the current gtag.js. The file is stored in your uploads folder and served from your site in place of Google’s copy. No visitor data is sent by the download.
Where: from your server to Google. What Google Analytics itself collects from visitors is unchanged and is described under “Google Tag Manager and Google Analytics (gtag)” above.
Privacy policy: https://policies.google.com/privacy Terms of service: https://policies.google.com/terms
What does not leave your site
Cache preloading and the cache self-test request your own pages, on your own domain, and nowhere else.
Your PageSpeed API key, your reCAPTCHA secret and your Google service-account key are stored on this site only. They are never shown back to you after saving and are excluded from a settings export.
The Copy for AI button on Console Logs puts text on your clipboard for you to paste somewhere yourself. It contains no keys, no settings values and no server paths, and Boosted sends it nowhere.
External fonts and optional local copies
Free does not download external font stylesheets or font files on the server. If an administrator enables font resource hints or CSS external preconnect, Boosted may add a browser preconnect or DNS-prefetch hint for an external stylesheet already enqueued by the theme or another plugin. This connects the visitor’s browser to that host and can disclose the visitor’s IP address; Boosted does not add the third-party stylesheet itself.
Premium can make server-side requests only after an administrator enables Font Optimization and either Self-host Fonts or Optimize External Font CSS, then runs a font rebuild. The rebuild examines external font stylesheets previously found during site analysis. Only Google Fonts and Bunny Fonts stylesheets are eligible; Boosted downloads those, and it copies font files loc
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Getting started.
01In WordPress, go to Plugins > Add New Plugin, search for “Vyse Digital Boosted”, then click Install Now and Activate. To install by hand, upload the vysedigital-boosted folder to /wp-content/plugins/ and activate it on the Plugins screen.
02Open Boosted in the admin menu. Nothing is switched on until you turn it on.
03On the Cache tab, turn on page caching. If define( 'WP_CACHE', true ) is missing from wp-config.php, Vyse Digital Boosted offers to add it for you.
04Leave the Auto-optimization mode on the Settings tab at Safe, check your pages, and move to Balanced only when everything still works.
05Turn on the other parts you want, such as image optimization, SEO and the cookie banner, from their own tabs.
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Frequently asked questions.
What does caching actually do?
The first time someone opens a page, Boosted saves the finished HTML to disk. Every visitor after that is handed that file by a drop-in that runs before WordPress loads, so no theme, plugin or database query runs at all. Logged-in users always get a freshly built page, so you never see a cached copy of your own admin bar.
Nothing is being cached. What should I check?
Three things, in order. Developer mode: if it is on, caching is paused on purpose. WP_CACHE: the Cache tab shows whether define( ‘WP_CACHE’, true ) is in wp-config.php, and offers to add it. Another optimization plugin: if one already owns the caching layer, the Compatibility tab names it, and running two page caches is worse than running one.
What changes between Safe, Balanced and Advanced?
How much Boosted is willing to rearrange your front end. Safe caches and minifies but never defers a script, so nothing can break from load order – start here on a site with lots of plugins. Balanced adds script deferral and CSS combination. Advanced pushes both further. If something breaks after a change, step down one level rather than turning everything off.
Does Boosted minify or combine my JavaScript?
It can minify, and it is off by default. The JavaScript page offers opt-in minification using a parser-backed minifier; Boosted keeps an original copy of every script and falls back to it on any failure, so nothing is ever rewritten in place. Scripts are never combined – combining reorders execution and is the classic way a speed plugin takes a site down – that switch stays off. Boosted defers scripts instead, which is reversible and does not rewrite your code. CSS is combined and minified, because the risk there is far smaller.
I am working on the site and keep seeing the old version.
Turn on developer mode in Settings. It pauses page caching and preloading, lazy loading, HTML minification, CSS combination, script deferral and the LCP preload hint, all at once and site-wide, while leaving every one of your settings exactly as it is. Turn it off when you are done and everything comes back.
Will this replace or delete my original images?
Never. Boosted writes a converted copy next to the original and leaves the original untouched, so the file in your Media Library is always the file you uploaded. If you deactivate the plugin, your images are exactly as they were.
I optimized an image but no WebP or AVIF appeared.
Usually the server cannot make that format. The Images tab lists what your PHP install supports – GD or Imagick, and which formats each can write. AVIF in particular needs a recent build, and plenty of hosts do not have it. If the format is supported, the image is probably still queued.
How long does the queue take?
Deliberately longer than it could. Boosted converts three images per cron pass and reschedules about a minute later, because converting a whole media library at once is how an optimization plugin gets a site suspended for CPU use. An image that fails is retried up to three times with a widening gap between attempts, then left alone rather than retried forever. You can pause and resume the queue from the Images tab.
What is lazy loading doing to my images?
Images below the fold are told to load only as the visitor approaches them, which is where most of the saving is. The one image Boosted measures as your largest visible element is excluded on purpose and given loading priority instead – lazy-loading your hero image makes the page score worse, not better. Width and height are filled in where they are missing so the layout does not jump as images arrive.
Where do I set the SEO title and description?
On the post itself. In the block editor it is the Boosted SEO panel in the sidebar; on a screen still using the classic editor it is a meta box below the content. Boosted shows one or the other, never both on the same post, so there is only ever one place holding the real value.
What does Boosted add to my pages?
On single posts and pages: the title and description, an Open Graph title for link previews, a canonical URL, and structured data describing the page for search engines. Archives, category listings and the blog index are left alone – those are the pages where a guessed description does more harm than none.
Will this fight with Yoast or Rank Math?
Boosted steps aside on the title: if another plugin has already set one, it is left alone. Even so, running two SEO plugins means two sources for the same tags. Pick one to own titles and descriptions, and use Boosted for the rest.
Is the banner on by default?
No. Nothing about consent is switched on until you switch it on, because a banner appearing on a site without warning is its own kind of problem. Turn it on from the Cookie Consent tab when you are ready.
How does blocking actually work?
Third-party scripts and embeds you have registered are held back before they load, not cleaned up afterwards. Until a visitor approves the matching category, the tag simply never runs, so it sets no cookies. The Cookie Consent tab ships patterns for the common ones – Analytics, Meta Pixel, YouTube, Vimeo, Google Fonts – and you can add your own.
What is stored in the audit log?
For each answer: when it was given, which categories were accepted, and a one-way hash standing in for the visitor rather than their raw IP address – enough to show a regulator you collected consent, without building a list of who visited. It only records while audit logging is on, and you can export it as CSV or clear it.
Why can I not use GA4 and Tag Manager together?
Because a container that also loads the Analytics tag counts every pageview twice, and the numbers look fine until you try to trust them. Boosted makes it a choice: add the Measurement ID directly, or manage Analytics inside Tag Manager. If you are already using GTM for anything else, do it there.
Are my keys included when I export my settings?
No. The reCAPTCHA secret, the Analytics service account file and the PageSpeed key are saved on this site and left out of every export, so a settings file you email or commit to a repository cannot leak them. Importing settings clears those fields rather than filling them with someone else’s, and you re-enter them here.
How do I show a view count on the site?
Use the [boosted_ga total_views] shortcode once reporting is connected. Connecting it is free; printing the number is also free, and until then the shortcode renders whatever fallback you give it.
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