Title: W3 cache or Validation
Last modified: August 22, 2016

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# W3 cache or Validation

 *  Resolved [Rocky074](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rocky074/)
 * (@rocky074)
 * [11 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/w3-cache-or-validation/)
 * 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](https://wordpress.org/support/users/macmanx/)
 * (@macmanx)
 * [11 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/w3-cache-or-validation/#post-5825406)
 * 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](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rocky074/)
 * (@rocky074)
 * [11 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/w3-cache-or-validation/#post-5825464)
 * Thank you for your reply James.
    It looks as if I will have to do a bit of html
   editing then.
 *  Moderator [James Huff](https://wordpress.org/support/users/macmanx/)
 * (@macmanx)
 * [11 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/w3-cache-or-validation/#post-5825469)
 * You’re welcome!
 *  Thread Starter [Rocky074](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rocky074/)
 * (@rocky074)
 * [11 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/w3-cache-or-validation/#post-5825479)
 * I was sent this link by the theme designers which I found useful:
    [Google insights](https://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/insights/)
 * It looks like a simpler option for someone like me but still shows how to make
   the site efficient.
 *  Moderator [James Huff](https://wordpress.org/support/users/macmanx/)
 * (@macmanx)
 * [11 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/w3-cache-or-validation/#post-5825513)
 * 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/](http://gtmetrix.com/) and [http://www.webpagetest.org/](http://www.webpagetest.org/)
   instead.

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## Tags

 * [validation](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/validation/)
 * [W3 Cache](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/w3-cache/)

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 * Last reply from: [James Huff](https://wordpress.org/support/users/macmanx/)
 * Last activity: [11 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/w3-cache-or-validation/#post-5825513)
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