Having a slow-loading website can have repercussions for both your search engine ranking as well as the user experience.
This is why you have to opt for the best WordPress cache plugins, as they will enable you to store recently used information on your visitor’s hard drive.
As a result, all time-consuming elements will be stored offline on the user’s drive, and he will have a much faster loading time. In order to do this, you will have to focus on using the right WordPress cache plugins.
Before you start using this type of plugin, you should check the website speed to see what you have to work with at this time. https://tools.pingdom.com/ and https://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/insights/ are two great sites that will help you solve this issue fast and with little to no effort.
WP Rocket
WP rocket delivers a very intuitive setup; it offers fast page caching that is immediately activated, and it also has Google Fonts Optimization that will minimize the HTTP requests.
The plugin also integrates with CloudFlare, so the value that you can receive is magnificent.
It also defers the JavaScript file until the page gets rendered.
Overall, it’s a very good tool that delivers a stellar performance boost which is easy to see.
Features:
- Quick Setup
- Page Caching
- Cache Preloading
- Sitemap Preloading
- GZIP Compression
- Browser Caching
- Database Optimization
- Google Fonts Optimization
- Remove Query Strings from Static Resources
- LazyLoad
- Minification/Concatenation
- DeferJS Loading
- CloudFlare Compatibility
- DNS Prefetching
- Mobile Detection
- Multisite Compatibility
- Ecommerce Friendly
- Multilingual Compatibility
- Connected Users
- Import/Export
- Developer Friendly
WP Fastest Cache
WP Fastest Cache offers support for SSL and CDN, it allows you to disable and enable mobile support, but at the same time it also allows you to block cache for specific pages.
It also allows you to delete cache files if necessary and it also includes a Mod_Rewrite that makes it easy to handle cache as you see fit.
Wpfc does not support WordPress Multisite yet.
Features:
- Mod_Rewrite which is the fastest method is used in this plugin
- All cache files are deleted when a post or page is published
- Admin can delete all cached files from the options page
- Admin can delete minified css and js files from the options page
- Block cache for specific page or post with Short Code
- Cache Timeout – All cached files are deleted at the determinated time
- Cache Timeout for specific pages
- Enable/Disable cache option for mobile devices
- Enable/Disable cache option for logged-in users
- SSL support
- CDN support
- Preload Cache – Create the cache of all the site automatically
- Exclude pages and user-agents
PERFORMANCE OPTIMIZATION
- Generating static html files from your dynamic WordPress blog
- Minify Html – You can decrease the size of page
- Minify Css – You can decrease the size of css files
- Enable Gzip Compression – Reduce the size of files sent from your server to increase the speed to which they are transferred to the browser.
- Leverage browser caching – Reduce page load times for repeat visitors
- Combine CSS – Reduce number of HTTP round-trips by combining multiple CSS resources into one
- Combine JS
WP Total Cache
W3 Total Cache is a tool designed to improve your SEO and make the site run faster. It enables you to reduce the download times, and it offers CDN integration.
It also offers better web server performance, and the browser caching is also improved here as well, which is imperative to keep in mind. You receive mobile support too!
Features:
- Compatible with shared hosting, virtual private / dedicated servers and dedicated servers / clusters
- Transparent content delivery network (CDN) management with Media Library, theme files and WordPress itself
- Mobile support: respective caching of pages by referrer or groups of user agents including theme switching for groups of referrers or user agents
- Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP) support
- Secure Socket Layer (SSL) support
- Caching of (minified and compressed) pages and posts in memory or on disk or on (FSD) CDN (by user agent group)
- Caching of (minified and compressed) CSS and JavaScript in memory, on disk or on CDN
- Caching of feeds (site, categories, tags, comments, search results) in memory or on disk or on CDN
- Caching of search results pages (i.e. URIs with query string variables) in memory or on disk
- Caching of database objects in memory or on disk
- Caching of objects in memory or on disk
- Caching of fragments in memory or on disk
- Minification of posts and pages and feeds
- Minification of inline, embedded or 3rd party JavaScript (with automated updates)
- Minification of inline, embedded or 3rd party CSS (with automated updates)
- Browser caching using cache-control, future expire headers and entity tags (ETag) with “cache-busting”
- JavaScript grouping by template (home page, post page etc) with embed location control
- Non-blocking JavaScript embedding
- Import post attachments directly into the Media Library (and CDN)
- WP-CLI support for cache purging, query string updating and more
- Various security features
- Caching statistics for performance insights
- Extension framework for customization or extensibility e.g. New Relic, Cloudflare, WPML and more
- Reverse proxy integration via Nginx or Varnish
Comet Cache
Comet Cache makes it easy for you to control the automatic cache cleaning behavior.
You can also use it to ignore or cache URLs that have query strings, and it also has HTTP referred and user agent exclusion patterns as well. The plugin also has the ability to set expiration times for all cache files if you want.
The Comet Cache plugin uses configuration options that you select from the options panel. See: Comet Cache -› Options in your Dashboard. Once a file has been cached, Comet Cache uses advanced techniques that allow it to recognize when it should and should not serve a cached version of the file.
By default, Comet Cache does not serve cached pages to users who are logged in, or to users who have left comments recently. Comet Cache also excludes administrative pages, login pages, POST/PUT/DELETE/GET(w/ query string) requests and/or CLI processes.
Features:
- SIMPLE and well-documented configuration (just enable and you’re all set!).
- Options to control the automatic cache clearing behavior for Home and Posts Page, Author Page, Category, Tag, and Custom Term Archives, Custom Post Type Archives, RSS/RDF/ATOM Feeds, and XML Sitemaps.
- URI exclusion patterns (now supporting wildcards too).
- User-Agent exclusion patterns (now supporting wildcards too).
- HTTP referrer exclusion patterns (now supporting wildcards too).
- The ability to set an automatic expiration time for cache files.
- Client-Side Caching (to allow double-caching in the client-side browser).
- Caching for 404 requests to reduce the impact of those requests on the server.
- RSS, RDF, and Atom Feed caching.
- The ability to cache or ignore URLs that contain query strings (GET Requests).
- Apache Optimizations to enable GZIP Compression.
- WP-CLI Compatibility.
- An Advanced Cache Plugin system for theme and plugin developers.
WP Cache Enabler
Thanks to Cache Enabler, you have the ability to create static HTML files. You get to store those on the server disk. This way, the server will share static HTML content, and it will not have to handle a very intensive process on the backend. It’s faster, easier and better. Plus, it enables you to boost the website speed quite a bit.
The Cache Enabler plugin creates static HTML files and stores them on the servers disk. The web server will deliver the static HTML file and avoids the resource intensive backend processes (core, plugins and database). This WordPress cache engine will improve the performance of your website.
Features:
- Efficient and fast disk cache engine
- Automated and/or manual clearing of the cache
- Manually purge the cache of specific pages
- Display of the actual cache size in your dashboard
- Minification of HTML and inline JavaScript
- WordPress multisite support
- Custom Post Type support
- Expiry Directive
- Support of 304 Not Modified if the page has not modified since last cached
- WebP Support (when combined with Optimus)
- Supports responsive images via srcset since WP 4.4
- Works perfectly with Autoptimize
- HTTP/2 Focused
Don’t hesitate and invest in the best WordPress cache plugin right away.
It will certainly be worth it, all you have to do is to check these plugins out, and the experience can be an amazing one in the end! Plus, you will have no problem making the most out of WordPress caching once you install these tools.
Each one of them has great customization options, so modifying them to suit your needs will not be a problem!
I have over 15 years of experience in building plugins and themes for WordPress and other platforms.
Contact me if you have plugins that you want me to check before you insert them into your website. I will be happy to check them for security and speed.
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This is really helpful. I am always wondering about plugins and which ones I should be using.
I never even knew that some of these existed! Thanks for the information, I’ll definitely be using some of these for my blog!
This sounds great! I will have to check it out. Slow sites are very frustrating!
I’ve been using WPSuperCache, but haven’t been totally happy with it. I like the Rocket removes Querystrings. SuperCache is supposed to -but hasn’t been. I may have to switch over. Thanks for this list.
Thank you so much I am new to blogging so always looking for new things to add! There are so many so nice to know what exactly they all do!
You are most welcome!
These all sound pretty cool. It seems that WordPress has all of the convenient plugins! I use another platform so I navigate differently, but am considering switching.
That’s a great resource! Thanks for sharing! Now my question to you: which one do you use? Or can you combine more than one for improved results?
Hi Renata,
You probably should use just one of them. They do almost the same thing but some works faster than the others.
Depends on the theme you are using for your website.
In 2017, anything that can assist your website in terms of efficiency, speed and security has got to be an important priority. Particularly anyone conducting e-commerce should find the information and detail you have provided here to be quite invaluable. Great post.
This is a great list of free plugins. I will have to give WP Fastest Cache a try.
Perfect for WordPress users! Wish I had known these when I was still using wordpress though
I am not using the wp platform but I can see I am missing out on some great stuff!
I like the sound of WP fastest cache and since I have wordpress it is handy to know which are the best plugins to download!
I haven’t heard any of these, but I have been looking for a new one. I am going to have to check some of these out.
I’ll have to check these out for my website! Thanks for the great resource!
All of these sound like great plugins! I would love to give them a try and see which would work for me.
I use W3 cache but it still takes my page almost a minute to fully load. I’ll have to try some of these others.
You should also try Borlabs Cache. It’s free and achieves better results than all the other plugins on the market. You can download it here https://borlabs.io/
Thank you for sharing it with us. I will check it and see how it’s working
hello hohn
have you heard about this new plugin catching on called wot cache plugin?
they say he has good results can you check it out and lets us readers know
Hi David.
Thank you for your comment. I’ll test the plugin and add an article about it after I analyze the code and features.
John
hi you didnt mention WOT CACHE plugin which is also paid one but have amazing fetures
https://www.wotcache.com
Great write up. I was amaze to see that Breeze Cache Plugin wasn’t mentioned in that list. I would personally recommend you as well as to WordPress community to try out breeze. Anyways thanks for compiling.
https://www.cloudways.com/en/free-wordpress-cache-plugin-breeze.php