What's the best Plugin to make a WP site load faster?

Chris- · 10-09-2011, 09:25 AM

What is the best Plugin to make a WP site load faster, without causing any problems.

thanks in advance for any advice on this

Chris-

TheCollegeInvestor · 10-09-2011, 09:40 AM

I like W3 Total Cache.

However, many others like WP-Supercache in combo with WP-Minify.

Both do the same thing - cache your content and minify your js to make the site load faster. Both are pretty reliable although W3 takes a little more time to configure. It is more robust though.

Quirpo · 10-09-2011, 09:42 AM

Yeah......I own many wordpress websites.....tried everything......W3 Total Cache helps........but in general.....there is not a whole lot you can do. If you are ok with a little slower website......it can be worth it....because wordpress is a great cms for great seo websites.

AndreStoelinga · 10-09-2011, 09:43 AM

wp-super-cache plugin is recommended a lot.
Don't use wp-cache, because it hasn't been updated in ages...

Andre

Chris- · 10-09-2011, 09:49 AM

Thanks for all the advice so far

Chris

Amy Harrop · 10-09-2011, 12:06 PM

I use the W3 Total Cache, WP Widget Cache, and Autoptimize plugins.

Skid_Roe · 10-09-2011, 12:47 PM

Another vote for W3 Total Cache - I use it on all of my clients as well as my own sites.

Bill D-G · 10-09-2011, 12:55 PM

Quick Cache is a good alternative that seems to work for me. I like the easy interface.

UMS · 10-09-2011, 01:00 PM

In order of preference:

1. W3 Total Cache
2. Quick Cache
3. WP Super Cache

I did a series of speed tests from various source points and W3 Total Cache was the clear winner if you configure it correctly.

TheZafraGroup · 10-09-2011, 02:47 PM

A WP blog will slow down if you have too many active plugins. What you do is to start deactivating the ones that you don't really have any use for. Spam is also a nasty way to slow your site down. Those nasty little buggers actually take up a lot of band width. Another is how many posts you have on your page. Limit it to 5-8 posts and limit the images as well. The best plugin I know about that can speed up your WP blog is WP Super Cache. It will make loading faster and lessen the load from your server which is great. It's like it will take a snapshot of your blog so the next time you visit, it wouldn't have to load the whole thing. One tip tho, when making changes, deactivate this plugin to see them. Like I said it's like taking a snapshot of your blog, deactivating it and activating after the changes will take a new snapshot. Hope this helped!

Chris- · 10-09-2011, 10:04 PM

Thanks for all the advice . . . looks like W3 is the winner

Chris

ronaldmd · 10-09-2011, 10:46 PM

Why use plugin? Just like TheZafraGroup said, WP blog will slow down if you have too many active plugins.

Use gzip compression.

Add the following to the htaccess file:

Code:

mod_gzip_on Yes
mod_gzip_dechunk Yes
mod_gzip_item_include file .(html?|txt|css|js|php|pl)$
mod_gzip_item_include handler ^cgi-script$
mod_gzip_item_include mime ^text/.*
mod_gzip_item_include mime ^application/x-javascript.*
mod_gzip_item_exclude mime ^image/.*
mod_gzip_item_exclude rspheader ^Content-Encoding:.*gzip.*

Toby.T · 10-09-2011, 10:48 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by UMS

In order of preference:

1. W3 Total Cache
2. Quick Cache
3. WP Super Cache

I did a series of speed tests from various source points and W3 Total Cache was the clear winner if you configure it correctly.

Thanks, I personally use WP Super Cache but will switch to W3 Total Cache for testing purposes right now. Will be interesting to see if there is much difference.

Chris- · 10-09-2011, 11:03 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ronaldmd

Why use plugin? Just like TheZafraGroup said, WP blog will slow down if you have too many active plugins.

Use gzip compression.

Add the following to the htaccess file:

Code:

mod_gzip_on Yes
mod_gzip_dechunk Yes
mod_gzip_item_include file .(html?|txt|css|js|php|pl)$
mod_gzip_item_include handler ^cgi-script$
mod_gzip_item_include mime ^text/.*
mod_gzip_item_include mime ^application/x-javascript.*
mod_gzip_item_exclude mime ^image/.*
mod_gzip_item_exclude rspheader ^Content-Encoding:.*gzip.*

So what does that do, why and how ???

Chris

JFSebastian · 10-10-2011, 01:54 AM

I suggest WP Super Cache.

PatriciaJ · 10-10-2011, 02:55 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ronaldmd

Why use plugin? Just like TheZafraGroup said, WP blog will slow down if you have too many active plugins.

Use gzip compression.

Add the following to the htaccess file:

Code:

mod_gzip_on Yes
mod_gzip_dechunk Yes
mod_gzip_item_include file .(html?|txt|css|js|php|pl)$
mod_gzip_item_include handler ^cgi-script$
mod_gzip_item_include mime ^text/.*
mod_gzip_item_include mime ^application/x-javascript.*
mod_gzip_item_exclude mime ^image/.*
mod_gzip_item_exclude rspheader ^Content-Encoding:.*gzip.*

That doesn't work. I tried it and I get an internal server error.

I use W3 Total Cache and limit my plugins. A few days ago I had a message in my adsense account telling me that I needed to compress my sites for better user experience and didn't have a clue what it meant. I searched and found the following code to put in the htaccess file and tried it on my busiest blog.

# compress text, html, javascript, css, xml:
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/plain
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/html
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/xml
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/css
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/xml
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/xhtml+xml
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/rss+xml
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/javascript
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/x-javascript

# Or, compress certain file types by extension:
<Files *.html>
SetOutputFilter DEFLATE
</Files>

The blog seemed to load a bit quicker but when I enter the domain into an online gzip tester it says that it isn't compressed so I'm flummoxed now.

trishacupra911 · 10-10-2011, 03:03 AM

I also vote for W3 Total Cache. I use it on my clients' websites as well. It makes a very noticeable difference.

Chris- · 10-10-2011, 03:20 AM

Thanks for the info. Can anyone give the full story on this compression thing? If not, I guess I'll do some reasearch and/or start a new thread about that!

thanks

Chris

KenFighter · 10-10-2011, 03:25 AM

this one also cool..
WordPress › Quick Cache ( A WP Super Cache Alternative ) « WordPress Plugins

PatriciaJ · 10-10-2011, 03:29 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Chris-

Thanks for the info. Can anyone give the full story on this compression thing? If not, I guess I'll do some reasearch and/or start a new thread about that!

thanks

Chris

How To Optimize Your Site With GZIP Compression | BetterExplained This site has an explanation that I more or less understood, but I don't know if the code I've used from there is working or not.

Another thing that I've found helps with site load speed is to get rid of the Google analytics plugin and use the code provided in the blog header instead.

Chris- · 10-10-2011, 03:36 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by PatriciaJ

How To Optimize Your Site With GZIP Compression | BetterExplained This site has an explanation that I more or less understood, but I don't know if the code I've used from there is working or not.

Another thing that I've found helps with site load speed is to get rid of the Google analytics plugin and use the code provided in the blog header instead.

Thanks for the link, I'll have a read of that

Chris

PatriciaJ · 10-10-2011, 03:40 AM

If you can figure it please let us know, I've been worried since that went on my Adsense account

Chris- · 10-10-2011, 03:41 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by PatriciaJ

If you can figure it please let us know, I've been worried since that went on my Adsense account

Yes, I'll post here if I figure it out

Chris

Chris- · 10-10-2011, 04:02 AM

So far, I've used an analyzer:-

Web Page Analyzer - free website optimization tool website speed test check website performance report from web site optimization

which says that my pages are being sent compressed, so I guess W3 is doing that for me.

I found a link with some very interesting-looking info on speeding up WP sites:-

11 Ways to Make Your WordPress Site Faster and Leaner

So I'm going through that currently!

Chris

Mike Tyler · 10-10-2011, 04:08 AM

Quick Cache and gZip Configuration is the king!

Mike Tyler.

PatriciaJ · 10-10-2011, 04:26 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Chris-

So far, I've used an analyzer:-

Web Page Analyzer - free website optimization tool website speed test check website performance report from web site optimization

which says that my pages are being sent compressed, so I guess W3 is doing that for me.

I found a link with some very interesting-looking info on speeding up WP sites:-

11 Ways to Make Your WordPress Site Faster and Leaner

So I'm going through that currently!

Chris

Thanks. I tried the web page analyser on my 2 busiest blogs, one is running W3 total Cache, the other I added the code which was supposed to compress but the results for both blogs come back as need compressing. So I'm probably doing something wrong. Sometimes I prefer my html sites to Wordpress, they are easier to run

Zaheera · 10-10-2011, 04:34 AM

Hi,

Total Cache is the best option and first choice. I give second rating to Hyper Cache.

Regards,

abdin66 · 10-10-2011, 04:35 AM

I found Flexicache very good too. W3 Cache is very complex to setup but seems most Warriors favour that.

Chris- · 10-10-2011, 04:40 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by PatriciaJ

Thanks. I tried the web page analyser on my 2 busiest blogs, one is running W3 total Cache, the other I added the code which was supposed to compress but the results for both blogs come back as need compressing. So I'm probably doing something wrong. Sometimes I prefer my html sites to Wordpress, they are easier to run

My settings for W3 . . . plugin enabled, PageCaches, Minify, Database Cache, and Browser Cache all enabled.

Chris

ManageWP · 10-10-2011, 05:37 AM

There are a couple of services, CloudFlare.com and Inapcsula.com come to mind first, which allow you to run your website traffic through them and they will automatically optimize the output, while also protecting you from hackers.

CloudFlare is more performance oriented and Incapsula more security but they both have free plans.

Chris- · 10-10-2011, 05:41 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ManageWP

There are a couple of services, CloudFlare.com and Inapcsula.com come to mind first, which allow you to run your website traffic through them and they will automatically optimize the output, while also protecting you from hackers.

CloudFlare is more performance oriented and Incapsula more security but they both have free plans.

Thanks for the info, I hadn't realised they might be free

I'll keep that in mind for the future!

thanks

Chris

PatriciaJ · 10-10-2011, 05:44 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Chris-

My settings for W3 . . . plugin enabled, PageCaches, Minify, Database Cache, and Browser Cache all enabled.

Chris

I've got page cache, minify, database cache, object cache and browser cache enabled. I had one of the Hostgator support check it out for me and he said it was ok, but it is hard to understand.

sbucciarel · 10-10-2011, 06:07 AM

I've been using WP Super Cache, but think I'll give the W3 plugin a shot and see if there's a noticeable difference.

octavyo · 10-10-2011, 06:10 AM

Without any doubt W3 Total Cache is the best one. I`m using in on some of my sites and the load time has been improved considerably

pacelattin · 10-10-2011, 07:43 AM

+1 here for W3 Total Cache. Plus use a CDN.

Brian Alaway · 10-10-2011, 03:44 PM

For those on shared hosting, some hosts (Hostgator included) disable content compression on shared accounts because it is too resource intensive. For HG there is an "Optimize Website" icon in cPanel and even though it will appear to work, in fact it does not for shared accounts as HG disables gzip (mod_deflate) on their shared servers. W3 Total Cache will handle the compression instead.
You can go here and enter a url to check for compression:
GIDZipTest: Web Page Compression (Deflate / Gzip) Test - GIDNetwork

Also, the latest version of W3 Total Cache now integrates with Cloudflare. You'll find the Cloudflare settings on the W3TC General tab.

Mark Marzinzik · 10-10-2011, 04:16 PM

My suggestion is NONE OF THEM... One of the easiest answers can be upgrading to a faster business server. You will be amazed at the the difference it makes. The problems I had with these plug-ins is they require Caches and you are forever messing with clearing the cache, adjusting the cache when you change anything on your site. It was not a delightful experience. If you place a non-dynamic site on line they would work fine.

Michael Fied · 10-10-2011, 04:59 PM

I really like W3 Total Cache...

indojobsearch · 10-10-2011, 10:02 PM

if you installed many plugins i think you need wp super cache too speed up your wordpress site..

Chris- · 10-11-2011, 12:07 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Brian Alaway

For those on shared hosting, some hosts (Hostgator included) disable content compression on shared accounts because it is too resource intensive. For HG there is an "Optimize Website" icon in cPanel and even though it will appear to work, in fact it does not for shared accounts as HG disables gzip (mod_deflate) on their shared servers. W3 Total Cache will handle the compression instead.
You can go here and enter a url to check for compression:
GIDZipTest: Web Page Compression (Deflate / Gzip) Test - GIDNetwork

Also, the latest version of W3 Total Cache now integrates with Cloudflare. You'll find the Cloudflare settings on the W3TC General tab.

Interesting point. BlueHost seems to be allowing me to use content compression, but I guess I'd better check with them to make sure it won't cause any problems if I do it on all my sites.

thanks

Chris

Chris- · 10-11-2011, 12:13 AM

I read somewhere that it is possible to pre-Gzip files on the server, rather than have the CPU do them as the pages are requested (if I understand correctly).

Does anyone know how to do that for a WP site?

Chris

Chris- · 10-11-2011, 12:55 AM

Looking at how content compression affects my BlueHost (shared) account, it looks like the initial changes I made yesterday such as deleting the old versions of posts, caused some CPU throttling, but only up to about 1/3 of the danger level, and so far it looks like the use of content compression itself is not a problem at my current traffic levels, although it is obviously something I will have to keep an eye on, in case it gets close to danger levels (CPU throttling >5000 seconds per day, or >600 seconds per hour).

I'll leave it a day and see if there is any CPU throttling under normal use, then make the changes on my other sites too.

Chris

PatriciaJ · 10-11-2011, 04:46 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by pacelattin

+1 here for W3 Total Cache. Plus use a CDN.

I was told that I didn't need that for my sites.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Brian Alaway

For those on shared hosting, some hosts (Hostgator included) disable content compression on shared accounts because it is too resource intensive. For HG there is an "Optimize Website" icon in cPanel and even though it will appear to work, in fact it does not for shared accounts as HG disables gzip (mod_deflate) on their shared servers. W3 Total Cache will handle the compression instead.
You can go here and enter a url to check for compression:
GIDZipTest: Web Page Compression (Deflate / Gzip) Test - GIDNetwork

Also, the latest version of W3 Total Cache now integrates with Cloudflare. You'll find the Cloudflare settings on the W3TC General tab.

GIDNetwork is what I've been using to test my sites and according to that tester none of my sites are compressed whether I've used W3 Total Cache or added code to my htaccess

I'm with Hostgator but what I'm finding hard to follow is them disabling content compression yet they recommend that you use W3 Total Cache, that's not logical.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Mark Marzinzik

My suggestion is NONE OF THEM... One of the easiest answers can be upgrading to a faster business server. You will be amazed at the the difference it makes. The problems I had with these plug-ins is they require Caches and you are forever messing with clearing the cache, adjusting the cache when you change anything on your site. It was not a delightful experience. If you place a non-dynamic site on line they would work fine.

I upgraded to a VPS last year. With W3 Total cache you just clear the cache when you add or remove a plugin or if there has been a plugin or theme update. Don't think you need to adjust the cache.

Just seen Google APIs at the bottom of the W3 stttings, anybody know if that's of any use?

andrejvasso · 10-11-2011, 05:40 AM

Do not use another wordpress plugin!

Use common sense: Plugins are the main reason for a wordpress site to become really slow. Do you really think adding more poorly coded plugins will help to decrease loading time? I think not.

Here is something for you to paste into your .htaccess file:

Code:

<IfModule mod_deflate.c>

# Force deflate for mangled headers developer.yahoo.com/blogs/ydn/posts/2010/12/pushing-beyond-gzipping/
<IfModule mod_setenvif.c>
  <IfModule mod_headers.c>
    SetEnvIfNoCase ^(Accept-EncodXng|X-cept-Encoding|X{15}|~{15}|-{15})$ ^((gzip|deflate)s,?s(gzip|deflate)?|X{4,13}|~{4,13}|-{4,13})$ HAVE_Accept-Encoding
    RequestHeader append Accept-Encoding "gzip,deflate" env=HAVE_Accept-Encoding
  </IfModule>
</IfModule>

# HTML, TXT, CSS, JavaScript, JSON, XML, HTC:
<IfModule filter_module>
  FilterDeclare   COMPRESS
  FilterProvider  COMPRESS  DEFLATE resp=Content-Type /text/(html|css|javascript|plain|x(ml|-component))/
  FilterProvider  COMPRESS  DEFLATE resp=Content-Type /application/(javascript|json|xml|x-javascript)/
  FilterChain     COMPRESS
  FilterProtocol  COMPRESS  change=yes;byteranges=no
</IfModule>

<IfModule !mod_filter.c>
  # Legacy versions of Apache
  AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/html text/plain text/css application/json
  AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/javascript application/javascript application/x-javascript 
  AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/xml application/xml text/x-component
</IfModule>

# Webfonts and SVG:
  <FilesMatch ".(ttf|otf|eot|svg)$" >
    SetOutputFilter DEFLATE
  </FilesMatch>
</IfModule>

Taken from html5boilerplate htaccess and working like a charm.

Istvan Horvath · 10-11-2011, 05:57 AM

Quote:

Use common sense: Plugins are the main reason for a wordpress site to become really slow. Do you really think adding more poorly coded plugins will help to decrease loading time?

^^This!
(and thanks for the useful code!)

Chris- · 10-11-2011, 06:28 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by PatriciaJ

I'm with Hostgator but what I'm finding hard to follow is them disabling content compression yet they recommend that you use W3 Total Cache, that's not logical.

W3 does other things other than content compression, so even if HostGator is blocking content compression, W3 can still speed up your site.

Chris

andrejvasso · 10-11-2011, 06:53 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by PatriciaJ

I'm with Hostgator but what I'm finding hard to follow is them disabling content compression yet they recommend that you use W3 Total Cache, that's not logical.

Just in case you find it interesting to know why Hostgator and others are disabling content compression:

Most of this big webhost companies offer hosting and domain at so cheap rates, that they are not really making any profit from that.

They do make their profit by charging insanely high costs when you exceed the allowed bandwidth.

So, the logic is simple: compressing content -> results in less bandwidth used -> less bandwidth means less profit.

Chris- · 10-11-2011, 06:59 AM

And/Or, content compression in real time uses the CPU to do it, so the more it's being done the more CPU they'd have to provide, and that costs money. Hence they use CPU throttling to limit the amount of CPU power you use, and if you keep on trying to use more than they want you to use, they might suspend your account (that's what BlueHost seems to be saying, anyway, with its upper limits to throttling).

Chris

PatriciaJ · 10-11-2011, 07:35 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by andrejvasso

Do not use another wordpress plugin!

Use common sense: Plugins are the main reason for a wordpress site to become really slow. Do you really think adding more poorly coded plugins will help to decrease loading time? I think not.

Here is something for you to paste into your .htaccess file:

Code:

<IfModule mod_deflate.c>

# Force deflate for mangled headers developer.yahoo.com/blogs/ydn/posts/2010/12/pushing-beyond-gzipping/
<IfModule mod_setenvif.c>
  <IfModule mod_headers.c>
    SetEnvIfNoCase ^(Accept-EncodXng|X-cept-Encoding|X{15}|~{15}|-{15})$ ^((gzip|deflate)s,?s(gzip|deflate)?|X{4,13}|~{4,13}|-{4,13})$ HAVE_Accept-Encoding
    RequestHeader append Accept-Encoding "gzip,deflate" env=HAVE_Accept-Encoding
  </IfModule>
</IfModule>

# HTML, TXT, CSS, JavaScript, JSON, XML, HTC:
<IfModule filter_module>
  FilterDeclare   COMPRESS
  FilterProvider  COMPRESS  DEFLATE resp=Content-Type /text/(html|css|javascript|plain|x(ml|-component))/
  FilterProvider  COMPRESS  DEFLATE resp=Content-Type /application/(javascript|json|xml|x-javascript)/
  FilterChain     COMPRESS
  FilterProtocol  COMPRESS  change=yes;byteranges=no
</IfModule>

<IfModule !mod_filter.c>
  # Legacy versions of Apache
  AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/html text/plain text/css application/json
  AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/javascript application/javascript application/x-javascript 
  AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/xml application/xml text/x-component
</IfModule>

# Webfonts and SVG:
  <FilesMatch ".(ttf|otf|eot|svg)$" >
    SetOutputFilter DEFLATE
  </FilesMatch>
</IfModule>

Taken from html5boilerplate htaccess and working like a charm.

We know that plugins are causing sites to load slow. I decreased mine ages ago but Google are telling me that I need to compress. Thank you for this code, but I've tried it and it's still not compressed according to the tester. I might have a chat with Hostgator, if I'm getting a warning message in my Adsense account I need to sort it

andrejvasso · 10-11-2011, 08:23 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by PatriciaJ

We know that plugins are causing sites to load slow. I decreased mine ages ago but Google are telling me that I need to compress. Thank you for this code, but I've tried it and it's still not compressed according to the tester. I might have a chat with Hostgator, if I'm getting a warning message in my Adsense account I need to sort it

The problem is most def. Hostgator related.

I am hosting sites on a VPS (@ webangel.ie) and the code above works good and testing my sites (with that tester that has been posted here) confirms it.

10-09-2011, 09:25 AM	#1
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TheZafraGroup Hustler Join Date: Oct 2011 Posts: 432 Thanks: 77 Thanked 54 Times in 52 Posts Social Networking Contact Info	Re: What's the best Plugin to make a WP site load faster? A WP blog will slow down if you have too many active plugins. What you do is to start deactivating the ones that you don't really have any use for. Spam is also a nasty way to slow your site down. Those nasty little buggers actually take up a lot of band width. Another is how many posts you have on your page. Limit it to 5-8 posts and limit the images as well. The best plugin I know about that can speed up your WP blog is WP Super Cache. It will make loading faster and lessen the load from your server which is great. It's like it will take a snapshot of your blog so the next time you visit, it wouldn't have to load the whole thing. One tip tho, when making changes, deactivate this plugin to see them. Like I said it's like taking a snapshot of your blog, deactivating it and activating after the changes will take a new snapshot. Hope this helped!
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10-09-2011, 10:04 PM	#11
Chris- Advanced Warrior War Room Member Join Date: Oct 2009 Location: various :) Posts: 666 Thanks: 297 Thanked 122 Times in 59 Posts	Re: What's the best Plugin to make a WP site load faster? Thanks for all the advice . . . looks like W3 is the winner Chris
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10-09-2011, 10:46 PM	#12
ronaldmd Honorable Warrior War Room Member Join Date: Sep 2011 Posts: 277 Thanks: 22 Thanked 33 Times in 27 Posts Contact Info	Re: What's the best Plugin to make a WP site load faster? Why use plugin? Just like TheZafraGroup said, WP blog will slow down if you have too many active plugins. Use gzip compression. Add the following to the htaccess file: Code: mod_gzip_on Yes mod_gzip_dechunk Yes mod_gzip_item_include file .(html?\|txt\|css\|js\|php\|pl)$ mod_gzip_item_include handler ^cgi-script$ mod_gzip_item_include mime ^text/.* mod_gzip_item_include mime ^application/x-javascript.* mod_gzip_item_exclude mime ^image/.* mod_gzip_item_exclude rspheader ^Content-Encoding:.gzip.
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10-10-2011, 01:54 AM	#15
JFSebastian Warrior Member Join Date: Oct 2011 Posts: 16 Thanks: 0 Thanked 1 Time in 1 Post	Re: What's the best Plugin to make a WP site load faster? I suggest WP Super Cache.

10-10-2011, 03:03 AM	#17
trishacupra911 Active Warrior Join Date: Dec 2010 Posts: 35 Thanks: 8 Thanked 4 Times in 4 Posts Social Networking	Re: What's the best Plugin to make a WP site load faster? I also vote for W3 Total Cache. I use it on my clients' websites as well. It makes a very noticeable difference.
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10-10-2011, 03:20 AM	#18
Chris- Advanced Warrior War Room Member Join Date: Oct 2009 Location: various :) Posts: 666 Thanks: 297 Thanked 122 Times in 59 Posts	Re: What's the best Plugin to make a WP site load faster? Thanks for the info. Can anyone give the full story on this compression thing? If not, I guess I'll do some reasearch and/or start a new thread about that! thanks Chris
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10-10-2011, 03:25 AM	#19
KenFighter Banned War Room Member Join Date: Nov 2010 Location: Street Fighter Law Posts: 578 Thanks: 32 Thanked 28 Times in 23 Posts	Re: What's the best Plugin to make a WP site load faster? this one also cool.. WordPress › Quick Cache ( A WP Super Cache Alternative ) « WordPress Plugins

10-10-2011, 03:40 AM	#22
PatriciaJ Senior Warrior Member Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Yorkshire, UK Posts: 1,311 Thanks: 185 Thanked 375 Times in 282 Posts Social Networking Contact Info	Re: What's the best Plugin to make a WP site load faster? If you can figure it please let us know, I've been worried since that went on my Adsense account
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10-10-2011, 04:02 AM	#24
Chris- Advanced Warrior War Room Member Join Date: Oct 2009 Location: various :) Posts: 666 Thanks: 297 Thanked 122 Times in 59 Posts	Re: What's the best Plugin to make a WP site load faster? So far, I've used an analyzer:- Web Page Analyzer - free website optimization tool website speed test check website performance report from web site optimization which says that my pages are being sent compressed, so I guess W3 is doing that for me. I found a link with some very interesting-looking info on speeding up WP sites:- 11 Ways to Make Your WordPress Site Faster and Leaner So I'm going through that currently! Chris
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10-10-2011, 04:08 AM	#25
Mike Tyler MikeBytes Marketing War Room Member Join Date: May 2011 Location: Bergen, Norway Posts: 148 Thanks: 52 Thanked 82 Times in 51 Posts Contact Info	Re: What's the best Plugin to make a WP site load faster? Quick Cache and gZip Configuration is the king! Mike Tyler.
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10-10-2011, 04:34 AM	#27
Zaheera HyperActive Warrior War Room Member Join Date: Sep 2011 Location: Pakistan Posts: 193 Thanks: 146 Thanked 19 Times in 19 Posts Contact Info	Re: What's the best Plugin to make a WP site load faster? Hi, Total Cache is the best option and first choice. I give second rating to Hyper Cache. Regards,
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10-10-2011, 04:35 AM	#28
abdin66 Sal Joynal Abdin Join Date: Dec 2009 Location: London, Birmingham UK Posts: 68 Thanks: 18 Thanked 4 Times in 4 Posts Social Networking Contact Info	Re: What's the best Plugin to make a WP site load faster? I found Flexicache very good too. W3 Cache is very complex to setup but seems most Warriors favour that.
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10-10-2011, 05:37 AM	#30
ManageWP Support Join Date: Oct 2011 Posts: 15 Thanks: 1 Thanked 2 Times in 2 Posts Social Networking	Re: What's the best Plugin to make a WP site load faster? There are a couple of services, CloudFlare.com and Inapcsula.com come to mind first, which allow you to run your website traffic through them and they will automatically optimize the output, while also protecting you from hackers. CloudFlare is more performance oriented and Incapsula more security but they both have free plans.
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10-10-2011, 06:07 AM	#33
sbucciarel Suzanne War Room Member Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Virginia, USA. Posts: 14,685 Blog Entries: 1 Thanks: 2,064 Thanked 6,618 Times in 3,613 Posts	Re: What's the best Plugin to make a WP site load faster? I've been using WP Super Cache, but think I'll give the W3 plugin a shot and see if there's a noticeable difference.
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10-10-2011, 06:10 AM	#34
octavyo SEO Mogul War Room Member Join Date: Jun 2009 Posts: 184 Blog Entries: 1 Thanks: 32 Thanked 115 Times in 24 Posts Contact Info	Re: What's the best Plugin to make a WP site load faster? Without any doubt W3 Total Cache is the best one. I`m using in on some of my sites and the load time has been improved considerably
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10-10-2011, 07:43 AM	#35
pacelattin is Pace Lattin War Room Member Join Date: Oct 2011 Posts: 716 Thanks: 14 Thanked 103 Times in 89 Posts Social Networking Contact Info	Re: What's the best Plugin to make a WP site load faster? +1 here for W3 Total Cache. Plus use a CDN.
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10-10-2011, 03:44 PM	#36
Brian Alaway Advanced Warrior War Room Member Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: Florida, USA. Posts: 632 Thanks: 59 Thanked 134 Times in 116 Posts Social Networking	Re: What's the best Plugin to make a WP site load faster? For those on shared hosting, some hosts (Hostgator included) disable content compression on shared accounts because it is too resource intensive. For HG there is an "Optimize Website" icon in cPanel and even though it will appear to work, in fact it does not for shared accounts as HG disables gzip (mod_deflate) on their shared servers. W3 Total Cache will handle the compression instead. You can go here and enter a url to check for compression: GIDZipTest: Web Page Compression (Deflate / Gzip) Test - GIDNetwork Also, the latest version of W3 Total Cache now integrates with Cloudflare. You'll find the Cloudflare settings on the W3TC General tab.
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10-10-2011, 04:16 PM	#37
Mark Marzinzik Software (I write code) War Room Member Join Date: Sep 2011 Posts: 72 Thanks: 76 Thanked 15 Times in 15 Posts Social Networking Contact Info	Re: What's the best Plugin to make a WP site load faster? My suggestion is NONE OF THEM... One of the easiest answers can be upgrading to a faster business server. You will be amazed at the the difference it makes. The problems I had with these plug-ins is they require Caches and you are forever messing with clearing the cache, adjusting the cache when you change anything on your site. It was not a delightful experience. If you place a non-dynamic site on line they would work fine.

10-10-2011, 04:59 PM	#38
Michael Fied HyperActive Warrior War Room Member Join Date: May 2011 Location: Florida, USA Posts: 148 Thanks: 12 Thanked 13 Times in 13 Posts Social Networking Contact Info	Re: What's the best Plugin to make a WP site load faster? I really like W3 Total Cache...

10-10-2011, 10:02 PM	#39
indojobsearch Warrior Member Join Date: May 2011 Posts: 28 Thanks: 0 Thanked 1 Time in 1 Post	Re: What's the best Plugin to make a WP site load faster? if you installed many plugins i think you need wp super cache too speed up your wordpress site..
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10-11-2011, 12:13 AM	#41
Chris- Advanced Warrior War Room Member Join Date: Oct 2009 Location: various :) Posts: 666 Thanks: 297 Thanked 122 Times in 59 Posts	Re: What's the best Plugin to make a WP site load faster? I read somewhere that it is possible to pre-Gzip files on the server, rather than have the CPU do them as the pages are requested (if I understand correctly). Does anyone know how to do that for a WP site? Chris
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10-11-2011, 12:55 AM	#42
Chris- Advanced Warrior War Room Member Join Date: Oct 2009 Location: various :) Posts: 666 Thanks: 297 Thanked 122 Times in 59 Posts	Re: What's the best Plugin to make a WP site load faster? Looking at how content compression affects my BlueHost (shared) account, it looks like the initial changes I made yesterday such as deleting the old versions of posts, caused some CPU throttling, but only up to about 1/3 of the danger level, and so far it looks like the use of content compression itself is not a problem at my current traffic levels, although it is obviously something I will have to keep an eye on, in case it gets close to danger levels (CPU throttling >5000 seconds per day, or >600 seconds per hour). I'll leave it a day and see if there is any CPU throttling under normal use, then make the changes on my other sites too. Chris
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10-11-2011, 05:40 AM	#44
andrejvasso <?php echo("Hello"); ?> Join Date: Mar 2011 Location: EU Posts: 197 Thanks: 3 Thanked 30 Times in 30 Posts	Re: What's the best Plugin to make a WP site load faster? Do not use another wordpress plugin! Use common sense: Plugins are the main reason for a wordpress site to become really slow. Do you really think adding more poorly coded plugins will help to decrease loading time? I think not. Here is something for you to paste into your .htaccess file: Code: <IfModule mod_deflate.c> # Force deflate for mangled headers developer.yahoo.com/blogs/ydn/posts/2010/12/pushing-beyond-gzipping/ <IfModule mod_setenvif.c> <IfModule mod_headers.c> SetEnvIfNoCase ^(Accept-EncodXng\|X-cept-Encoding\|X{15}\|~{15}\|-{15})$ ^((gzip\|deflate)s,?s(gzip\|deflate)?\|X{4,13}\|~{4,13}\|-{4,13})$ HAVE_Accept-Encoding RequestHeader append Accept-Encoding "gzip,deflate" env=HAVE_Accept-Encoding </IfModule> </IfModule> # HTML, TXT, CSS, JavaScript, JSON, XML, HTC: <IfModule filter_module> FilterDeclare COMPRESS FilterProvider COMPRESS DEFLATE resp=Content-Type /text/(html\|css\|javascript\|plain\|x(ml\|-component))/ FilterProvider COMPRESS DEFLATE resp=Content-Type /application/(javascript\|json\|xml\|x-javascript)/ FilterChain COMPRESS FilterProtocol COMPRESS change=yes;byteranges=no </IfModule> <IfModule !mod_filter.c> # Legacy versions of Apache AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/html text/plain text/css application/json AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/javascript application/javascript application/x-javascript AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/xml application/xml text/x-component </IfModule> # Webfonts and SVG: <FilesMatch ".(ttf\|otf\|eot\|svg)$" > SetOutputFilter DEFLATE </FilesMatch> </IfModule> Taken from html5boilerplate htaccess and working like a charm.

10-11-2011, 06:59 AM	#48
Chris- Advanced Warrior War Room Member Join Date: Oct 2009 Location: various :) Posts: 666 Thanks: 297 Thanked 122 Times in 59 Posts	Re: What's the best Plugin to make a WP site load faster? And/Or, content compression in real time uses the CPU to do it, so the more it's being done the more CPU they'd have to provide, and that costs money. Hence they use CPU throttling to limit the amount of CPU power you use, and if you keep on trying to use more than they want you to use, they might suspend your account (that's what BlueHost seems to be saying, anyway, with its upper limits to throttling). Chris
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