Title: Storefront speed/performance optimization
Last modified: March 9, 2017

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# Storefront speed/performance optimization

 *  [Philip](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wequitourjobsforthis/)
 * (@wequitourjobsforthis)
 * [9 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/storefront-speedperformance-optimization/)
 * I realize this isn’t a specific question, but I’m curious as to what other people
   are using for their performance optimization. I’ve used W3 Total Cache in the
   past, and briefly had it installed on my site (www.refashionedapparel.com) and
   activated the SEO by Yoast extension to configure it, but I don’t really see 
   any difference, so I deactivated W3 completely, not having changed anything else.
   This being an e-commerce site, I’m a little hesitant to play with performance
   settings without a little more knowledge, especially how my SEO by Yoast and 
   WooCommerce plugins will be effected.
 * Here are my current Google PageSpeed results: [https://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/insights/?url=refashionedapparel.com](https://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/insights/?url=refashionedapparel.com)
 * If anyone has any ideas or suggestions, or preferences as to which performance
   plugins they like best for the storefront theme, I’d love to hear them. Even 
   if there is a W3 Total Cache configuration somewhere I could import, that would
   be neat too.

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 *  [LogoLogics](https://wordpress.org/support/users/logologics/)
 * (@logologics)
 * [9 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/storefront-speedperformance-optimization/#post-8895938)
 * Hi,
 * Before experimenting with this, do not start before you have a solid backup plan!
 * **I use for example:**
 *  [https://managewp.com/](https://managewp.com/)
    Even the free version gets you
   one backup a month that you can put back with a click.
 * And install the super easy to use: [https://nl.wordpress.org/plugins/all-in-one-wp-migration/](https://nl.wordpress.org/plugins/all-in-one-wp-migration/)
 * That said, although W3 Total Cache has a very good reputation, I for one did 
   not like it, pretty complicated to set it up properly and broke my sites more
   then once, so off it went haha.
 * Now I work and recommend these:
 * [https://nl.wordpress.org/plugins/wp-super-cache/](https://nl.wordpress.org/plugins/wp-super-cache/)
   
   [https://nl.wordpress.org/plugins/simple-cache/](https://nl.wordpress.org/plugins/simple-cache/)
 * Most of the times this reduces page load with 50%.
 * Hope this helps!
    Annie
 *  [LogoLogics](https://wordpress.org/support/users/logologics/)
 * (@logologics)
 * [9 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/storefront-speedperformance-optimization/#post-8895964)
 * Oh and make sure there are no “left overs” from the previous W3 Total cache:
 *  First, delete all cache and deactivate the W3 Total Cache plugin.
    Delete the
   W3 Total Cache plugin from the Wp-content/plugins folder.
 *  Remove this line from Wp-config file – (define(‘WP_CACHE’, true) )
    Delete advanced-
   cache.php, db.php, wp-total-cache-config.php,
 *  and delete the entire w3tc folder from the Wp-content folder.
    Check the .htaccess
   file; if you see any code added by W3 Total Cache, remove it.

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## Tags

 * [cache](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/cache/)
 * [commerce](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/commerce/)
 * [performance](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/performance/)
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 * Last reply from: [LogoLogics](https://wordpress.org/support/users/logologics/)
 * Last activity: [9 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/storefront-speedperformance-optimization/#post-8895964)
 * Status: not a support question