Speed Up WordPress Sites – Caching

To speed up your wordpress websites there are a lot of things that you have to pay attention to them like server configuration and specification, CDN and theme and plugins you are using. In this article we want to focus on caching plugins.

Caching Plugins

A cache plugin is a must-have WordPress plugin to boost site performance and increase user satisfaction. You can use any of these plugins to create a fast website that delights your visitors without touching any code in your theme or .htaccess files.

LiteSpeed Cache

LiteSpeed Cache for WordPress (LSCWP) is an all-in-one site acceleration plugin, featuring an exclusive server-level cache and a collection of optimisation features.

LSCWP supports WordPress Multisite and is compatible with most popular plugins, including WooCommerce, bbPress, and Yoast SEO.

W3 Total Cache

W3 Total Cache (W3TC) improves the SEO, Core Web Vitals and overall user experience of your site by increasing website performance and reducing load times by leveraging features like content delivery network (CDN) integration and the latest best practices.

Autoptimize

Autoptimize makes optimizing your site really easy. It can aggregate, minify and cache scripts and styles, injects CSS in the page head by default but can also inline critical CSS and defer the aggregated full CSS, moves and defers scripts to the footer and minifies HTML.

Using cache plugins on your website is the quickest way to get better speed score and boost website performance. There are many other cache plugins available on the WordPress repository and most of them have similar result on your website performance but the other important part and the main one is the theme and plugins you are using.

In the next articles, we will focus on themes, plugins and what you can do to boost your website performance.