Relevanssi vs Super Speedy Search
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Get Super Speedy Search →Comparing Relevanssi with Super Speedy Search? This page breaks down the key differences and similarities so you can find the best fit for your WordPress or WooCommerce store.
Overview of Relevanssi
Relevanssi replaces the standard WordPress search with a better search engine. It gives you more relevant results, with features like fuzzy matching, partial word search, AND/OR operators, and highlighted search terms in results.
How Super Speedy Search differs from Relevanssi
All plugins from Super Speedy Plugins share a SQL-first architecture and an uncompromising focus on performance — and Super Speedy Search is no different. Here is what sets it apart:
Shoppers leave when search is slow, irrelevant or cannot find the words they use. Super Speedy Search replaces WordPress’s table-scanning search with a dedicated index, then lets you control what matches and what ranks first.
How to choose between Relevanssi and Super Speedy Search?
Scale is where most plugins start to struggle, and exactly where Super Speedy Search was designed to thrive. Unlike Relevanssi, every Super Speedy Search release is stress-tested against a one-million-product WooCommerce store before it reaches your server. If your load times have been creeping upwards as your catalogue grows, migration is simpler than you might fear — and a free trial means you can confirm the improvement on staging before making any commitment.
What do others say about Super Speedy Search?
Incredible woocommerce search plugin, performs great, support is fast if needed, and integrates well into my theme.
This is precisely the search plugin you need for your WooCommerce website. It performs well with our 50,000+ product catalogue. Support from Dave and his team has been excellent and any issues are resolved quickly. Thats 5 stars from me!
After using 2 other plugins from Super Speedy Plugins, our choice for a new search plugin easily fell to Super Speedy Search: fast and immediate support and of course amazing speed! I also use Scalability Pro and Infinite Scroll, so when our previous search plugin provider raised prices 50-fold, we needed a new search plugin. Knowing that this existed, it was a quick and painless switch to Super Speedy Search as it would also improve back-end search, something we were struggling with as with about 35.000 products it wasn't always as fast as we wanted it
Super Speedy Search Knowledge Base
View full Knowledge Base →- Can I update Search without rebuilding the search index?
- Why did Jetpack (or another scanner) flag sss.php?
- Analytics & Caching: Track Searches and Cache Hot Results
- Boolean-only relevance scoring
- Cancel Superseded Searches
- Faster wp-admin meta search
- Multi-search: Prioritise Recent Content for Faster Searches
- Restricting a search box to one category
- Searching multiple post types in full-page search results: Single ranked list vs Mixed sections
- Skipping searches made only of short words
- Adjusting Super Speedy Search Weights
- Ajax Search Panel – Super Speedy Search Settings
- Getting Maximum Speed from Super Speedy Search
- How to add the Super Speedy Search widget into your header
- Installing and configuring Super Speedy Search
- Main Super Speedy Search Settings
- MariaDB "DOUBLE value is out of range" after a rebuild
- Meta Search – Super Speedy Search Settings
Articles about Super Speedy Search
View all articles →- Bug fix sprint
- December Development Update
- Manual update for Super Speedy Search required
- More speed, more updates, and a bit of a roadmap for our plugins
- More beta updates available
- Beta downloads and historic plugin versions now in your account
- Upgrades to multiple Super Speedy Plugins plugins now in beta
- Dev Diary #7
- Dev Diary #2
- Update to Super Speedy Search released
What's new in Super Speedy Search?
5.96.2 (3rd November 2026)
- Updated super-speedy-settings to 1.14.5: creating the MCP connection now needs permission to add users, so a multisite sub-site administrator cannot create the agent account when the network does not allow it.
5.96.1 (2nd November 2026)
- Fixed live search returning "Too many search requests" to shoppers behind Sucuri, QUIC.cloud, Bunny or Fastly, which now limit each visitor by their own address.
5.96.0 (2nd November 2026)
- Fixed a `post_type` in the search URL matching post types that are not searchable, such as WooCommerce coupons.
- Fixed password-protected posts appearing in search results and live search excerpts for visitors who have not entered the password.
- Fixed search terms in the Search Analytics table, meta key names in the Meta Search list, search box shortcode attributes and combination suggestion names being read as HTML.
- The Relevance Coach and the `sss/test-query` ability now search only searchable post types, and the coach saves only published posts to its history.
- Fixed WooCommerce order searches with another filter, such as `wc_get_orders()` with `customer`, returning orders outside that filter; those searches now use WooCommerce's own order query.
- New setting *Limit long searches to their first 20 words*, on by default: a front-end or live search longer than 20 words or 256 bytes searches its first 20 words, with no error shown.
- Live search requests are limited to 300 a minute per visitor on sites with a persistent object cache such as Redis, answering HTTP 429 beyond that; sites without one are not limited.
- Search Analytics now removes terms searched only once and not seen for 90 days, and keeps every term with a redirect or cache rule.
- Fixed a saved meta key containing an apostrophe causing a database syntax error in index rebuilds, and in searches when *Split meta search* is on.
- Escaped the remaining settings page values.
- Updated super-speedy-settings to 1.14.4, which no longer ships the update checker's developer build script.
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