W3 cache or Validation

  • Resolved Rocky074

    (@rocky074)


    11 years, 2 months ago

    Hi,
    I was looking to validate my website so I installed the Validation plugin. Ran a check on some pages and it turns out that each page has at least 8 errors. Now I’m not much into the html side of things so the question is, does the W3 cache plugin serve a similar purpose or do I need to fix the errors using HTML?
    Thanks

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  • Moderator James Huff

    (@macmanx)

    11 years, 2 months ago

    The W3 Cache and W3 Validator are two completely separate things. The W3 Validator is an HTML validator from the W3 organization, whereas W3 Total Cache is a caching plugin which just happens to have W3 in its name.

    Using a caching plugin won’t change your validation errors, it will simply cache them along with the rest of your site.

    Thread Starter Rocky074

    (@rocky074)

    11 years, 2 months ago

    Thank you for your reply James.
    It looks as if I will have to do a bit of html editing then.

    Moderator James Huff

    (@macmanx)

    11 years, 2 months ago

    You’re welcome!

    Thread Starter Rocky074

    (@rocky074)

    11 years, 2 months ago

    I was sent this link by the theme designers which I found useful:
    Google insights

    It looks like a simpler option for someone like me but still shows how to make the site efficient.

    Moderator James Huff

    (@macmanx)

    11 years, 2 months ago

    Ah, I don’t recommend that, Google’s tool is actually a bit buggy. It reports things which are working as not working.

    I recommend http://gtmetrix.com/ and http://www.webpagetest.org/ instead.

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