Above all other caching plugins – but one suggestion

  • alfadelta

    (@alfadelta)


    3 years, 1 month ago

    Tested a lot of caching plugins over the last years and can say this is the one for me 🙂

    In combination with “Async JavaScript” from the same developers a great solution.

    One suggestion: I need still to keep “W3 Total Cache” plugin active for one single task: they do the browser caching restrictions trough the HTACCESS very well. Sure I am a lazy PHP developer and can to this by my self but my customers must can do the same. So when browser caching could be implemented too, then this plugin is 10 stars in value.

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  • Plugin Author Optimizing Matters

    (@optimizingmatters)

    3 years, 1 month ago

    thanks alfadelta

    problem with browser caching directives is they depend on webserver (is it apache) & is mod_expires installed & webserver config (are allowoverrides not set too restrictive), so I prefer not to go there (call me lazy).

    but maybe https://wordpress.org/plugins/add-expires-headers/ is a better alternative to W3TC if only for that single task?

    Thread Starter alfadelta

    (@alfadelta)

    3 years, 1 month ago

    Thank you for your quick response. I understand now and will dive into the solution you provided.

    Thread Starter alfadelta

    (@alfadelta)

    3 years, 1 month ago

    Finally the best result is still with W3TC active (only selected:page, object and browser caching). Somehow without W3TC the GTMetrics tests complains that the root document takes too long (1 or 2 seconds).

    All tree plugins together give me the best results above the 90% and even 100%
    I am happy!

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    Plugin Author Optimizing Matters

    (@optimizingmatters)

    3 years, 1 month ago

    ah, you’re also using W3TC for page (& object) caching, you definitively need page caching yes (but there are great lighter alternatives)!

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