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FV Gravatar Cache
Speeds up your website by making sure the gravatars are stored on your website and not loading from the gravatar server.
The facts
- Rating
- 3.9★ from 11
- Active installs
- 600+
- Price
- Free
- Last updated
- 19 May 2025
- Added
- Sep 2010
- Requires WP
- 2.7
- Tested up to
- WP 6.8.8
- Downloads
- 39,561
Our analysis
AI-assistedFV Gravatar Cache is a WordPress plugin designed to improve the loading speed of Gravatars on comment-heavy pages. It addresses the issue of slow loading times caused by multiple calls to the Gravatar server by caching Gravatars using a WordPress cron job and during comment submission.
This plugin is suitable for websites that feature a lot of user comments and want to enhance performance by reducing page load times associated with Gravatar requests.
Best for: Websites with a high volume of user comments seeking to improve performance.
What it does well
- ✓Caches Gravatars to improve loading speed
- ✓Uses WordPress cron job for efficient caching
- ✓Maintains a single copy of default Gravatar
Where it falls short
- •Limited information on additional features
- •No details on support options
Verdict
FV Gravatar Cache offers a straightforward solution for speeding up Gravatar loading times, particularly beneficial for comment-heavy sites.
From the developer
FolioVision's own description of FV Gravatar Cache, lightly tidied.
There’s one problem with Gravatars. They are very slow to load. Each page with comments on them makes one call per comment to the Gravatar server. While a single call takes only a 100ms, on a page with hundreds of comments, we are talking about major slowdowns. Page loads can take 20 seconds and more.
This plugin solves this problem by:
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caching gravatars with WordPress cron job..
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caching gravatars on comment submission
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maintaining a single copy of the default gravatar instead of downloading it again and again for all the email addresses with no gravatar associtated
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