Cloudflare vs Scalability Pro
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Get Scalability Pro →Comparing Cloudflare with Scalability Pro? This page breaks down the key differences and similarities so you can find the best fit for your WordPress or WooCommerce store.
Overview of Cloudflare
Cloudflare is a global CDN, DNS, DDoS protection, and web application firewall platform. For WordPress, it caches static assets and, with certain plans, full HTML pages at its edge network — reducing the number of requests that reach your origin server. It also offers image optimisation, Workers scripts, and bot management.
How Scalability Pro differs from Cloudflare
All plugins from Super Speedy Plugins share a SQL-first architecture and an uncompromising focus on performance — and Scalability Pro is no different. Here is what sets it apart:
Your site was fast when it was small. Now archive pages, imports and wp-admin screens are waiting on the database. Scalability Pro adds the indexes WordPress leaves out, stops it counting rows nobody reads, and defers the work that turns an import into an overnight job.
Cloudflare reduces load on your origin server by caching at the edge, which helps with traffic spikes and static content delivery. However, dynamic WooCommerce pages — product archives, cart, checkout — typically bypass Cloudflare's HTML cache and still hit your origin server. Scalability Pro targets the WordPress database layer directly, optimising the slow SQL queries that cause high TTFB on those uncached dynamic requests.
How to choose between Cloudflare and Scalability Pro?
Cloudflare is an excellent addition to any WordPress performance stack, but it cannot fix the slow database queries that make dynamic WooCommerce pages slow. Scalability Pro handles that layer — targeting the SQL patterns WooCommerce generates at scale, tested against one-million-product catalogues. The two tools complement each other; if your uncached page speed is the problem, Scalability Pro is where to start. A free trial is available.
What do others say about Scalability Pro?
This one saved my a$$! I'm using it on large woocommerce (around 50K product variations). Improved import speed more then 3x. Thank you Dave and wpintense team!
I purchased Scalability Pro as an experiment to see how it affected WP ALL IMPORT. It managed to turn a 3 day stock sync process into a 1 hour process. It has also sped up WooCommerce pages significantly. I am now in the process of adding WP Scalability Pro to my other websites so they can benefit.
Dawid is a true professional from whom WooCommerce experts could learn a lot. His solutions optimize WooCommerce to such an extent that even stores with hundreds of thousands of products run smoothly and without any lag. Moreover, Dawid is incredibly helpful – always open to solving issues and providing quick support on the dedicated Discord group. If you have a massive product database and struggle with WooCommerce performance, you should definitely try his plugins. They are professional, well-crafted, and make your store work as it should – fast and without problems. I highly recommend his plugins to anyone looking to take their store or marketplace to the next level!
Scalability Pro Knowledge Base
View full Knowledge Base →Articles about Scalability Pro
View all articles →- New SQL enhancement for Scalability Pro to fix WooCommerce long-running query in the product-hero block
- Speeding up WooCommerce 7 (wp-admin and imports)
- More speed boosts for wp-admin and imports with Scalability Pro upgrade
- Performance boost for WooCommerce onboarding code on large sites
- December Development Update
- More speed, more updates, and a bit of a roadmap for our plugins
- Beta downloads and historic plugin versions now in your account
- Upgrades to multiple Super Speedy Plugins plugins now in beta
- Bridge theme speed improvements included in latest Scalability Pro update
- Faster Woo Widgets beta
- Speed hacks for the Newspaper theme by tagDiv: Transform your site speed
- Making the WPNotif plugin faster
- Speeding up WP All Import imports using Scalability Pro
- Performance Optimisation for various XML Sitemap plugins
- Getting Rehub Working with Super Speedy Plugins
- Rehub Theme Performance and Scalability Review
- Foundthru demo site of Super Speedy Plugins plugins
- Scaling WooCommerce to 1 million products (my talk at WordCamp Brighton)
What's new in Scalability Pro?
6.38.0 (30th October 2026)
- *Alter main query to use EXISTS rather than LEFT JOIN* leaves pages Super Speedy Filters serves from its own index to Super Speedy Filters, so they no longer carry an extra product visibility check.
6.37.11 (30th October 2026)
- Fixed database errors about missing `scalability_pro_post_count_cache` and `scalability_pro_transient_cache` tables after activating Scalability Pro with WP-CLI: activation creates the cache tables before anything uses them.
6.37.10 (29th October 2026)
- Updated super-speedy-settings to 1.14.3: update downloads now send the licence key in a request header instead of the download URL.
6.37.9 (29th October 2026)
- Fixed native WordPress search running slower with Scalability Pro's indexes installed on large stores: the `wpi_scalability_pro_sitemaps` index now leads with `post_type` and is rebuilt automatically after updating.
6.37.8 (29th October 2026)
- Reworded the *Alter main query to use EXISTS rather than LEFT JOIN* description: it changes how the SQL is written, never which products are shown.
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