YITH AJAX Product Filter vs Super Speedy Filters

Dave Hilditch •

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Comparing YITH WooCommerce AJAX Product Filter 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 YITH WooCommerce AJAX Product Filter

YITH WooCommerce AJAX Product Filter lets customers filter products by category, attribute, price, tag, and custom taxonomy without page reloads. It is one of the most installed WooCommerce filter plugins available.

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How Super Speedy Filters differs from YITH WooCommerce AJAX Product Filter

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:

Every filter click should feel immediate, even when the catalogue is large. Super Speedy Filters cuts expensive taxonomy work, updates products and filters together, and keeps crawler-heavy filter combinations away from WordPress.

How to choose between YITH WooCommerce AJAX Product Filter and Super Speedy Filters?

If you're fed up with plugin updates slowing down your site — and wondering whether YITH WooCommerce AJAX Product Filter's developers ever test against stores with large catalogues — it might be time for a change. Every release of Super Speedy Filters is performance-tested against a one-million-product WooCommerce store to guarantee sub-second response times across every page. Migration is more straightforward than you might expect, and a free trial means you can evaluate the difference on your staging server with zero risk.

What do others say about Super Speedy Filters?

★★★★★
savvas — March 2019

This is the third plugin i bought! Faster isn't close to how fast woo widgets load! Excellent plugin!!!

★★★★★
Stephan Pire — September 2020

Hey Dave, this works quite well on soundorabilia.com. I have a slight issue though: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() On that location: wp-content/plugins/faster-woo-widgets/faster-woo-widgets.php:3992 fww_getseotitle() wp-content/plugins/faster-woo-widgets/faster-woo-widgets.php:4119 fww_set_title() wp-includes/class-wp-hook.php:287 apply_filters('pre_get_document_title') wp-includes/general-template.php:1135 wp_get_document_title() wp-content/plugins/wordpress-seo/src/presenters/title-presenter.php:39 Yoast\W\S\P\Title_Presenter->get() wp-content/plugins/wordpress-seo/src/presenters/abstract-indexable-tag-presenter.php:35 Yoast\W\S\P\Abstract_Indexable_Tag_Presenter->present() wp-content/plugins/wordpress-seo/src/integrations/front-end-integration.php:267 Yoast\W\S\I\Front_End_Integration->present_head() wp-includes/class-wp-hook.php:287 do_action('wpseo_head') wp-content/plugins/wordpress-seo/src/integrations/front-end-integration.php:242 Yoast\W\S\I\Front_End_Integration->call_wpseo_head() wp-includes/class-wp-hook.php:287 do_action('wp_head') wp-includes/general-template.php:3006 wp_head() wp-content/themes/flatsome/header.php:10 load_template('wp-content/themes/flatsome/header.php') wp-includes/template.php:676 locate_template() wp-includes/general-template.php:48 get_header('shop') wp-content/themes/flatsome/woocommerce/archive-product.php:20 Cheers mate

★★★★★
wsthff — November 2020

Hi Dave, the plugin is great, very fast and highly customisable. Would be great if it was compatible with Yith Brands Add-on. We have many brand pages and would like to use filters on brand pages as well, such as filter by categories and attributes, which is very important for a e-commerce site.  REGARDS

What's new in Super Speedy Filters?

6.44.0 (6th August 2026)

  • Fixed filtered pages on a Polylang or TranslatePress site in any language other than the default building their SEO title, breadcrumbs and SEO override match from an incomplete filter set, so a French page titled *Buy in Red Online* now reads *Buy Chairs in Red Online*
  • Fixed an Exact SEO override written for a translated URL losing to a Contains override on Polylang and TranslatePress sites
  • Filtered pages you allow to be indexed now carry correct `hreflang` tags on Polylang sites, listing the equivalent filtered URL in each language with a self-reference and `x-default`, the same as WPML
  • Fixed every brand facet on a non-default-language archive being a dead link on Polylang sites, e.g. `/fr/product-category/chaises/fr/brand/ikea-fr/`
  • Polylang Pro's translated slugs are now understood, so a French page at `/fr/categorie-produit/chaises/` builds its title, breadcrumbs and filter links from the right terms
  • SSF's SEO wording now appears in Polylang under Languages then Translations, in the *Super Speedy Filters* group, including the title prefix and suffix, the connectors, the meta description wording, the browser title suffix, the paginated title text and the on sale prefix
  • Every text field on a filter widget can now be translated per language in WPML String Translation or Polylang Translations: the search box placeholder, the clear filters and clear search labels, the group heading, the dropdown text, the required filters tooltip and the stock, on sale and postmeta toggle labels. One widget with translated strings, not one widget per language
  • The *Show products on sale* and *Show in stock* wording on the Show Existing Filters widget is translatable too, defaults included
  • Swatch colours and term thumbnails fall back to the default language's term, so a palette set once in English shows on every language
  • All of SSF's text now uses one `super-speedy-filters` text domain, so a single `.mo` file or Loco Translate covers the plugin
  • TranslatePress keeps its own hreflang tags on filtered pages, which are already correct
  • Removed the `SSF_POLYLANG` constant and its wp-config setting, replaced by the language handling above, which needs no switch
  • Tested up to WordPress 7.0
  • The plugin header declares GPLv3 and WordPress 7.0, matching `readme.txt`
  • Auto Configure now picks layout and placement on one step before Review, defaulting to a filter bar placed above your products; the one-button layout places itself the same way, and only the sidebar layout asks which sidebar or shortcode area to use
  • The layout sets each filter's container, a filter bar makes every filter a popout button, a sidebar removes the containers, and the review previews show exactly what will be created
  • Auto Configure defaults changed: hierarchical taxonomies get a list with large images one click away, taxonomies with term images get large image tiles, and taxonomies with colours get colour labels
  • Auto Configure shows product counts only on the main hierarchy filter, every other filter it creates hides them
  • Brand taxonomies are treated as flat even though WooCommerce registers them hierarchical, so brands with logos get the large image tiles
  • On the review step, changing a setting keeps your scroll position, popout containers in the previews open on click, and the step circles at the top navigate back
  • The scan summary now reads in groups, posts then taxonomies then terms, and counts the terms carrying colours and images rather than the taxonomies
  • Auto Configure's admin script and stylesheet reload automatically after an update, no hard refresh needed
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