Hummingbird vs Scalability Pro

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Comparing Hummingbird 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 Hummingbird

Hummingbird makes your site faster with smart file compression, browser caching, minification, and a built-in CDN. It runs performance audits and provides clear recommendations to improve your scores.

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How Scalability Pro differs from Hummingbird

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:

Upgrade your WordPress engine with Scalability Pro.

Lifts the limits on how big your WordPress website can be by adding key indexes to speed up slow queries, rewriting queries to be faster, and providing toggle-on-off functionality for WP stuff you don’t need which is slowing down your site.

How to choose between Hummingbird and Scalability Pro?

Scale is where most plugins start to struggle, and exactly where Scalability Pro was designed to thrive. Unlike Hummingbird, every Scalability Pro 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 Scalability Pro?

★★★★★
cory — February 2018

This plugin is brilliant!!! Would give it 10 stars if I could. Brought the site loading times down to less than 2 seconds – was sitting at about 10 seconds before. Had a few problems with the configuration but the support was great and got me setup in no time. I highly recommend this plugin.

★★★★★
joe.digitalocean — May 2018

It took me almost a year to find this plugin. I can truthfully say it is without question a must have if you have any intensions of scaling woocommerce. Not to mention awesome support the few issues I had because of my theme were taken care of by Dave himself. Not only did he fix the small issues with my theme he took the time via my request to touch up my database while he was in there. Thank again I am thankful for your help and putting up with my relentless questions. Utmost respect – joe miller

★★★★★
savvas — February 2019

I can't praise enough this plugin. It helped me scale my woocommerce site. Importing products now it's a breeze! Scalability pro cut the importing time to half (i am also using external images). Also my site loads much much faster than previously! Next stop: super speedy search and faster woo widgets. If you want to scale your woocommerce site don't miss Dave's plugins. They are a must. Thanks Dave

What's new in Scalability Pro?

6.18 (15th December 2025)

  • Added new WP All Export optimisation for when editing exports to speed up or avoid the wp_postmeta scan to grab all postmeta keys
  • Added preview and customizer check for "Remove OR check for private items on front end" optimisation

6.17 (18th November 2025)

  • Added full namespacing for plugin update checker to prevent conflicts with 3rd party plugins
  • Merged stop-phone-home functionality including fixes for paypal & stripe
  • Rollback to 5.94 + bug fixes added from other feature branch (but other major new features and implementation pattern removed for further testing)
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