Title: URLs Most Wanted for LiteSpeed LScache
Author: imedes
Published: <strong>July 11, 2026</strong>
Last modified: July 11, 2026

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# URLs Most Wanted for LiteSpeed LScache

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## Description

URLs Most Wanted gives the LiteSpeed Cache crawler the information it is missing:
which URLs are actually worth warming.

**What this means for your cache warmup**

 * Warm URLs that real visitors actually request, not every URL that happens to 
   exist.
 * Reduce unnecessary crawler work and server stress, especially on shared hosting.
 * Finish useful warmup work faster by avoiding pages with little or no real demand.
 * Warm cacheable visitor paths that a normal SEO sitemap may not contain, such 
   as pagination and filter URLs.
 * Use the LiteSpeed cache engine and the built-in LiteSpeed Cache crawler more 
   economically, with demand as the decision basis.
 * Record demand asynchronously with exceptionally low overhead, without affecting
   page delivery or PageSpeed measurements.

LiteSpeed Cache provides a crawler. The LiteSpeed cache engine provides the technical
foundation for fast cached delivery. But the standard setup cannot answer one important
question:

**Which URLs should the crawler warm first, and which URLs are not worth the effort?**

The usual answer is the sitemap.

A sitemap is useful. It tells search engines which URLs exist and which content 
should be discoverable. But that is an SEO question, not a cache-warmup question.

A URL can exist without being wanted. A URL can be listed in a sitemap without ever
being visited. And many URLs that visitors actually use, such as pagination, filtered
listings or other cacheable visitor paths, may not belong in a search-engine sitemap
at all.

So why should cache warmup treat every sitemap URL as equally important?

It should not.

Every crawl creates work. The crawler has to request URLs, generate cache entries
and use server resources while it does so. On a powerful dedicated server this may
be tolerable. On shared hosting, unnecessary crawler work can become visible server
stress that affects the website while the warmup is running.

LiteSpeed Cache includes a Server Load Limit, but on shared hosting that value may
reflect the load of the entire server rather than the load created by one account.
Choosing a threshold cannot make irrelevant crawl work useful. The workload you 
can control directly is the number of URLs the crawler has to process.

The consequence is simple:

> The less relevant work a warmup performs, the more efficiently it can serve the
> URLs that matter.

A sitemap may change when content changes, but it cannot adapt to actual demand.
It does not know which URLs visitors use today, which pages they ignore, or whether
a cacheable URL outside the SEO sitemap has become important.

That is the gap URLs Most Wanted closes.

URLs Most Wanted records visitor-requested URLs and stores them with their hit count,
creation date and last modified date. From this real usage data, it creates an alternative
sitemap for the built-in LiteSpeed Cache crawler.

Instead of warming a generic list of URLs because they exist, the crawler can warm
the URLs that have proven to be useful.

This is not prediction. It is proven demand.

The recorded hit counts also reveal which URLs have no demonstrated warmup value.
That does not automatically make their content disposable, but it makes clear where
cache-warmup resources are not creating a benefit.

In practice, a large share of a website’s URLs may receive little or no traffic.
Long-term traffic analysis can reveal that up to 70% of URLs are rarely or never
requested. Warming those URLs again and again is not cache strategy. It is resource
waste.

URLs Most Wanted changes the economics of cache warmup:

 * Less unnecessary crawling.
 * Less avoidable server load.
 * More focus on URLs with real visitor value.
 * Better coverage of cacheable URLs that the normal SEO sitemap does not represent.
 * A faster path to a warm cache where it creates an actual benefit.

The plugin does not replace the LiteSpeed Cache crawler. It gives the crawler a 
better source of URLs.

#### Built for LiteSpeed Cache

URLs Most Wanted is designed specifically for LiteSpeed Enterprise or OpenLiteSpeed
together with the LiteSpeed Cache for WordPress plugin.

The plugin uses a LiteSpeed capability that other LiteSpeed-focused solutions do
not normally expose. It keeps the effort required for recording visitor demand exceptionally
low. URL recording happens asynchronously and is designed not to affect frontend
delivery or PageSpeed measurements.

The result is deliberately simple: UMW collects the demand data, LiteSpeed Cache
performs the warmup, and your server spends its resources where they have a reason
to be spent.

#### Administration

URLs Most Wanted is intentionally unobtrusive. The administration screen lets you
review saved URLs, their hit counts and timestamps. You can:

 * Delete individual URLs or purge all saved URLs.
 * Blacklist URLs that must not be used for warmup.
 * Reset hit counts.
 * Generate the UMW sitemap manually.
 * Generate the sitemap automatically once per day through WP-Cron.

Nothing changes in the way LiteSpeed Cache warms the cache. You simply configure
its crawler to use the UMW sitemap instead of a generic SEO sitemap.

### Requirements

 * LiteSpeed Cache for WordPress must be installed.
 * PHP version 8.1 or higher.
 * LiteSpeed Enterprise or OpenLiteSpeed web server.

### Compatibility exclusions

**UMW Capture cannot be activated on Quic.cloud or o2switch hosting.**

These are hard technical exclusions, not configuration issues:

 * **Quic.cloud is not supported** because it does not provide the POST caching 
   capability required by UMW Capture.
 * **o2switch (France) is not supported** because LiteSpeed operates only as an 
   upstream proxy while the WordPress origin runs on Apache. UMW requires LiteSpeed
   Enterprise or OpenLiteSpeed at the origin.

There is no supported workaround for either environment.

### External services

This plugin requests the public QUIC.cloud IP range list from https://quic.cloud/
ips when it performs its server-side QUIC.cloud IP check. The IP range data is used
to identify QUIC.cloud-served responses during LiteSpeed Cache validation.

The request does not send visitor data, page content, credentials, cookies, WordPress
options, or database data. As with any HTTPS request, QUIC.cloud receives the server
IP address. The default WordPress HTTP user agent may also include the site URL 
and WordPress version.

QUIC.cloud Terms of Use:
 https://www.quic.cloud/terms-of-use/

QUIC.cloud Privacy Policy:
 https://www.quic.cloud/privacy-policy/

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## Installation

Install URLs Most Wanted like any other WordPress plugin. Beyond the LiteSpeed Cache
requirements, no additional setup is required before UMW can begin recording visitor-
requested URLs.

To use the UMW sitemap for cache warmup, configure the LiteSpeed Cache crawler to
use the sitemap generated by URLs Most Wanted.

When the plugin is uninstalled, its files, database entries and file changes, including.
htaccess changes, are removed without residue.

## FAQ

### Why not simply use my normal sitemap?

A normal sitemap is made for search-engine discovery. It shows which URLs exist,
not which URLs have real visitor demand. It can contain URLs that are rarely used
and omit cacheable visitor paths such as pagination or filtered listings. UMW creates
a sitemap for cache warmup based on real usage instead.

### Can this plugin be used with other cache plugins?

No. URLs Most Wanted is made specifically for LiteSpeed Cache and requires LiteSpeed
Enterprise or OpenLiteSpeed together with the LiteSpeed Cache for WordPress plugin.

### Does this plugin affect the loading time of my website?

URL recording is asynchronous and is designed not to affect frontend delivery or
PageSpeed measurements. UMW uses a LiteSpeed capability that other LiteSpeed-focused
solutions do not normally expose, keeping the additional recording effort exceptionally
low.

### Does UMW predict which URLs will become popular?

No. UMW does not predict demand. It records proven demand from visitor-requested
URLs and uses that information for future cache warmup.

### Is it possible to import a list of URLs?

No. Importing arbitrary URLs would distort the purpose of UMW. The sitemap is meant
to represent actual usage, not an externally assembled URL list. Manual database
changes via phpMyAdmin are possible, but they are outside the normal workflow.

### Can I generate the sitemap automatically?

Yes. UMW can generate its sitemap manually or automatically once per day through
WP-Cron.

### Why can’t I activate UMW Capture?

UMW Capture is activated only when its technical requirements are met. It cannot
be activated on Quic.cloud or o2switch hosting.

Quic.cloud does not provide the POST caching capability required by UMW Capture.
On o2switch, LiteSpeed operates only as an upstream proxy while the WordPress origin
runs on Apache. These are hard technical exclusions, not configuration issues, and
there is no supported workaround.

## Reviews

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## Contributors & Developers

“URLs Most Wanted for LiteSpeed LScache” is open source software. The following 
people have contributed to this plugin.

Contributors

 *   [ imedes ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/imedes/)

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## Changelog

#### 1.0 – March 28 2026

 * Initial release.

## Meta

 *  Version **1.0.0**
 *  Last updated **19 hours ago**
 *  Active installations **Fewer than 10**
 *  WordPress version ** 6.2 or higher **
 *  Tested up to **7.1**
 *  PHP version ** 8.1 or higher **
 * Tags
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   [litespeed](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/litespeed/)[sitemap](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/sitemap/)
   [warmup](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/warmup/)
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## Contributors

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