If your wordpress website is growing and gaining more traffic you may begin to notice some slowdowns or worse complete outages due to server load, these slowdowns can be annoying along with off-putting for potential visitors and will ultimately affect your sites potential advertising revenue. One way to keep you wordpress install fast loading even under times of high traffic is by using a Cache Plugin like W3 Total Cache. In this article we will go over some of the features of W3 Total Cache and it’s configuration options.
What Is W3 Total Cache?
Trusted by many popular blogs like: mashable.com, pearsonified.com, webdesignerdepot.com, freelanceswitch.com, briansolis.com, css3.info, tutsplus.com, yoast.com, noupe.com and others — W3 Total Cache improves the user experience of your blog by improving your server performance, caching every aspect of your site, reducing the download time of your theme and providing transparent content delivery network (CDN) integration.
What Are The Benefits Of W3 Total Cache?
- At least 10x improvement in site performance (Grade A in YSlow, when fully configured)
- “Instant” second page views (browser caching after first page view)
- Reduced page load time: increased visitor time on site (visitors view more pages)
- Optimized progressive render (pages appear to load instantly)
- Improved web server performance (easily sustain high traffic spikes)
- Up to 80% Bandwidth savings via Minify and HTTP compression of HTML, CSS, JavaScript and RSS feeds
W3 Total Cache Features
- Compatible with shared hosting, virtual private servers and dedicated servers / clusters
- Transparent content delivery network (CDN) integration with Media Library, theme files and WordPress itself
- Caching of (minified and compressed) pages and posts in memory or on disk
- Caching of (minified and compressed) CSS and JavaScript in memory, on disk or on CDN
- Caching of RSS (comments, page and site) feeds in memory or on disk
- Caching of search results pages (i.e. URIs with query string variables) in memory or on disk
- Caching of database objects in memory
- Minification of posts and pages and RSS feeds
- Minification (combine and remove comments / white space) of inline, embedded or 3rd party JavaScript (with automated updates)
- Minification (combine and remove comments / white space) of inline, embedded or 3rd party CSS (with automated updates)
- Browser caching of CSS, JavaScript and HTML using future expire headers and entity tags (ETag)
- JavaScript grouping by template (home page, post page etc) with embed location management
- Non-blocking JavaScript embedding
- Import post attachments directly into the Media Library (and CDN)
Download: W3 Total Cache Plugin Wordpress Plugin