WordPress caching plugins to speed up Wordpress
WordPress caching plug-in can really help you to speed up your WordPress website. A number of developers have created some great free WordPress caching plugins which are designed to speed up WordPress and optimize your website.
W3 Total Cache
W3 Total Cache is the only WordPress Performance Optimization framework that is designed to boost user experience and improve page load times.
The first thing you need to know about this plugin is that its Settings area is divided into 16 pages. Whoa! This may be quite overwhelming (even for some developers) but the important thing to remember is that you don’t have to manually configure the settings to make the plugin work – its default settings work pretty great too.
W3 Total Cache has a dedicated Settings page for every type of caching – page caching, object caching, database caching, browser caching etc. The level of customizability that you get with W3 Total Cache is difficult to find elsewhere.
Features
GZIP compression to optimize web browser rendering.
Minification and concatenation of HTML, CSS and JavaScript files.
Support for Content Delivery Networks (CDN).
Compatible with CloudFlare.
WP Super Cache
WP Super Cache is a free caching solution available for WordPress. Its caching mechanism is fairly easy to understand. The plugin basically generates static HTML files from your dynamic WordPress blog and caches it instead of the WordPress PHP scripts.
Features
Page compression and dynamic caching.
Support for Content Delivery Networks (CDN).
Caching for visitors using a mobile device.
Scheduler to manage deletion and re-caching at given intervals.
WP Fastest Cache
According to its developers, the WP Fastest Cache plugin is “the simplest and fastest WP Cache system”. Similar to WP Super Cache, WP Fastest Cache generates static HTML files based on your dynamic WordPress blog and saves it in the cache.
WP Fastest Cache prides itself on providing an easy-to-install plugin – and it delivers. You don’t even have to modify the .htaccess configuration file.
The plugin uses mod_rewrite to create static HTML files on your website. It also offers minification, GZIP compression, browser caching, and an option for combining JavaScript and CSS files together to reduce requests from your server.
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
Supports CDN and SSL
Enable/Disable cache option for mobile devices and logged-in users
Block cache for specific page or post with Short Code
Comet Cache
Comet Cache, formerly known as both ZenCache and Quick Cache is quickly gaining popularity under its new name. It takes a real-time snapshot of every post, page, category and link and caches them intuitively. This simple yet effective method saves you processing time that was initially causing the page load time of your site to rise.
The plugin uses advanced techniques to determine when it should send a cached version and when it shouldn’t. By default, users who are logged into the system and visitors who have commented on the website recently are not served cached pages. You can edit these configuration settings from the Settings page.
Features
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.
The ability to cache or ignore URLs that contain query strings (GET Requests).
User agent and HTTP referrer exclusion patterns.
Set automatic expiration times for cache files.