Are you having trouble with your WordPress loading time or installation? Yes, we’ve all been there. Speed is such a key factor these days, and it’s directly linked to providing a satisfying user experience, better Google rankings and better overall performance of your website as well.
If you are struggling with the speed of your website you are probably in need of a caching or a minifying WordPress plugin which will make things work for you. You can also look at enabling a CDN on your website which is what people often use for hosting their PBN websites.
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There are many plugins which will boost the loading time of your WordPress site, depending on your individual needs. It all depends on the design, structure, and reach of your site. So, if you are losing traffic and customers it’s probably high time to take things in your own hands and speed up your website.
Some of the most popular speed enhancing plugins which made it the top of our list are:
1. WP Rocket
The number one plugin which is a must when it comes to optimizing website speed is WP Rocket. Its user-friendly interface is ideal for beginners and enables instant caching with just one click. WP Rocket automatically turns on important settings such as page cache, Gzip compression, cache preloading, and browser caching. Its list of features seems to be never-ending, and it can give you quite a hefty website speed boost for $49 a year.
2. Perfmatters
The lightweight WordPress performance plugin, Perfmatters, gives you an option to disable the WordPress options which are not necessary for your site. WordPress has many options which are not used by every site but which, if left on, weigh down the speed of your website. With Perfmatters, disabling those unnecessary options is just a few clicks away. This plugin disables the HTTP requests which are slowing down your website as well.
3. W3 Total Cache
W3 Total Cache is not just a caching plugin, but a very popular framework, and it offers many options and caching methods. With W3 Total Cache you can save 80% of your bandwidth with minifying and HTTP compression.
However, its installation setup is not very easy because it offers many features. That’s the reason why this plugin is not recommended for beginners, but only for advanced users. The uninstalling of the plugin is also a bit complicated.
Nevertheless, it will improve your search rankings, conversion rates, and overall site performance, so if you’re reasonably tech-savvy, you can definitely check it out. What’s best is that W3 Total Cache is totally free!
4. WP Smush.it
This award-winning plugin is used for compressing the size of the images on your site, as that will increase your loading times. The best thing about using WP Smush for shrinking your images is that their quality stays the same.
WP Smush removes the unused colors from the images, removes metadata from JPEG images, it can compress any image in your directory, it supports JPEG, PNG and GIF formats and it can handle up to 50 images at a time. Quite the plugin, right?
5. Cache Enabler
The lightweight Cache Enabler, created by the team at KeyCDN, is a caching plugin which takes only a few minutes to set up. The minimal configuration this powerful plugin requires makes it a great addition for your site.
With Cache Enabler you get features such as cache expiry time and minification setup, not to mention that you’re one click away from clearing cache and setting cache behavior. Cache Enabler has a sister CDN provider called CDN Enabler.
6. WP Fastest Cache
WP Fastest Cache is truly fast, in fact, it’s so fast that 3 million users. WP Fastest Cache has a lot of great features which “fight slow rendering”. The plugin creates a static HTML file which doesn’t have to be rendered all the time, but users are able to reach the same static page.
The plugin has a free version you can first download and see whether you will like it. Later on, to access all of its features you would have to upgrade to premium and pay for that. You can also get a refund if WP Fastest Cache doesn’t provide satisfying results for you in the first 30 days.
7. WP Super Cache
WP Super Cache is a very popular plugin as well and it’s also free. It has over 5.5 million downloads. WP Super Cache offers you many of the features which will speed up your site, such as page cache, Gzip compression, CDN support, advanced cache preload, etc. It’s easy to set up and comes with some settings for advanced users as well.
The above-mentioned plugins are our top picks for the best plugins you can use for improving your website performance. If you aren’t using plugins to speed up your WordPress website, now you know where to start!
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