WordPress Cache Plugins
WP Super Cache is pretty good, but W3 Total Cache is way out in a league of it’s own & must class as the number 1 WordPress cache plugin to speed up your blog.
With Google’s recent announcement that they are now using site load times as an additional ranking factor, there is whole army of bloggers on the look out for ways to speed up their blogs & believe me there are many different things you can do, depending on your proficiency with such things as image optimization, CSS optimization & of course PHP coding! But for your average Jo there are always the WordPress Cache Plugins, two of the best as far as I am concerned are WP Super Cache & W3 Total Cache.
WP Super Cache
Over the last couple of months I have tried WP Super Cache & yes it did speed things up, admittedly not as much as I would have liked, but there was a noticeable improvement in site load times.
For the novice blogger I don’t think this particular plugin is to be recommended, for the simple reason you are required to copy & paste several lines of code into your htaccess file. Now I know from the many comments and articles I have read, that just finding the htaccess file can be a major task for some of the less experienced bloggers & lets face it, it is one thing churning out articles, yet a whole different ball game when you have to start poking around in the guts of WordPress. Everything considered, I found WordPress Super Cache fairly basic in it’s abilities & as mentioned above, not the easiest WordPress cache plugin to setup.
W3 Total Cache
W3 Total Cache is a completely different story, it is packed with features that are completely missing from Super Cache. Whilst both Super Cache & Total Cache offer page caching & gzip compression, W3 Total Cache also offers Minify for Java & CSS, Database caching & the ability to setup a CDN (Content Delivery Network) using a sub domain on your own hosting account. Add to this the fact that there is no requirement to go messing around with your htaccess file & that W3 Total Cache installs on default settings that would suit 90% of bloggers & it becomes quite apparent which of these two WordPress cache plugins you should be using!
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Posted by Steve Nickson
on Jan 29 2012. Filed under Wordpress Plugins.
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