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Get Super Speedy Filters →Comparing FacetWP with Super Speedy Filters? This page breaks down the key differences and similarities so you can find the best fit for your WordPress or WooCommerce store.
Overview of FacetWP
FacetWP is a powerful filtering and faceted search plugin for WordPress. It integrates with WooCommerce, Advanced Custom Fields, and custom post types to deliver fast and relevant filtered results.
How Super Speedy Filters differs from FacetWP
All plugins from Super Speedy Plugins share a SQL-first architecture and an uncompromising focus on performance — and Super Speedy Filters is no different. Here is what sets it apart:
Since we couldn’t optimize other filtering plugins fully through Scalability Pro, we had to make our own. Super Speedy Filters is the fastest, best-looking, most SEO-friendly WooCommerce filtering plugin, with plans to make it work on all post types in the near future.
It has been built from the ground up to transform filtering speed, with fully optimized ancestor tables, custom SQL, and fully customizable archive slugs and SEO control.
How to choose between FacetWP and Super Speedy Filters?
For stores where page speed translates directly into revenue, the comparison between FacetWP and Super Speedy Filters is worth examining carefully. Super Speedy Filters's SQL-first design means performance is built into the architecture rather than bolted on afterwards. Every release is tested against a one-million-product WooCommerce catalogue, so performance scales with your store rather than against it. Try it on your staging environment using the free trial — you will see the difference immediately.
What do others say about Super Speedy Filters?
The developer is always in touch in discord. Filter working very fast (i use in ajax). I use woof before, but after 10 attributes itsa working slow. I use with Scalability Pro. Its realy very fast. Thank you Dave.
Best effing Woo filter on the planet. Period. All other filters turn to DB to get terms and stock levels. This is fine with small sites. 18k products. Sort by brand? Dynamically populated filters based on category contents? YITH, Themify etc – you know that it adds around 9 seconds to page load. Hell no. With SSF i can barely notice speed difference but filters work like they suppose to.
This plugin is absolutely amazing! There is no comparison to anything available on the market, whether free or paid. It transforms large WooCommerce stores, even those with 80K+ products, to perform like small, single-product stores. The results are displayed instantly. Very impressive!
Super Speedy Filters Knowledge Base
View full Knowledge Base →- Adding CSS classes to the Super Speedy Filters widgets
- Creating a WooCommerce Rating Filter
- How to customise the product counts appearance in the attribute and category widgets
- How to set colours programmatically for the Super Speedy Colour Filters
- When should I rebuild the Super Speedy Filters tables
- Why are attributes missing from the widgets when I know I've set them in my products?
- Why do the product counts in the sidebar look wrong?
- Adjusting imports to work with Super Speedy Filters
- How to upload and activate the Super Speedy Filters plugin
- PHP SEO Filters for Super Speedy Filters
- Removing the slow WooCommerce code
- Adding description to category
- Confirming Brand landing page works
- Making sure categories appear in the shop archive
- Ordering by price with products that have no price
- Page-2 loading Page-1 products when there aren't enough products
- Radio Display Type buttons filling in
- Show/Hide search box
- Variable product – Color
- Ajax not working
- Change 'shop 2' page back to 'shop' page
- Clear Filters is not clearing the category
- Counts are wrong in the widgets
- Filters not displaying
- Multiselect not working
- Newly created term not appearing in widgets or term updated for product and not reflected in widgets
- Onsale filter not working
Articles about Super Speedy Filters
View all articles →- Bug fix sprint
- Adding a custom taxonomy widget to Faster Woo Widgets
- December Development Update
- More beta updates available
- Faster Woo Widgets beta
- Dev Diary #7
- Dev Diary #6
- Dev Diary #4
- Dev diary #3
- Dev Diary #2
What's new in Super Speedy Filters?
6.30 (27th February 2026)
- Improved integration between rules based SEO overrides and Exact match SEO overrides so that archive title will be overridden correctly and only written once to the page
- Implemented mini-refactor of SEO handler (rules-based) and SEO Overrides (exact match based)
6.29 (25th February 2026)
- Improved SEO override handler
- Restored SEO override configs
- Fixed duplicate SEO h1 override
- Fixed issue with exact match override causing blank titles on non-overridden pages
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