W3 Total Cache

W3 Total Cache is a powerful plugin for WordPress and enables you to boost the performance of your site.

Introduction

W3 Total Cache is a powerful plugin for WordPress and enables you to boost the performance of your site. It improves page load times by caching whole pages, minifies HTML, CSS and JavaScript files to minimize download sizes, compresses image files, inline stylesheet references in HTML documents and much more.

The plug-in was designed to improve performance of slow-loading web sites or blogs (often hosted on shared hosting plans with limited resources). The plug-in allows users to easily set up their own web site or blog through one interface. This plugin helps website owners reduce server load as well as improve search engine rankings.

The plug-in makes use of the disk caching functionality in web servers like Apache or IIS. It basically allows you to "cache" certain pages, posts etc on your website, so that the next time a visitor requests them they're served effortlessly from a page that's already been generated and is stored in your server's memory. This speeds things up greatly for users visiting your site as well as helps to reduce load on your server (which means less work for you).

It has 1+ Million active installations.

Features & Functionality

  • AJAX Caching: Optimize and deliver content more efficiently to browsers, including resources that would normally require a page refresh.

  • HTML Minification: Remove comments and white space from code to significantly reduce file size. JavaScript & CSS Compression: Reduce the number of bytes needed for scripts and stylesheets on your web site by up to 80%, speeding up download times by saving bandwidth.

  • Image Optimization: Create smaller image files by reducing their color depth or cutting out unnecessary parts of the images (i.e., strips PNG Alpha).

  • Browser Cache Expiration: Set an expiration time or use browser caching so users receive fresh content without seeing outdated records such as search results and news feeds.

  • Database Cache: Improve the load time of dynamic pages by storing data from MySQL queries in a cache on your web server, while keeping track of the original database content for safety.

  • Automatic Minify Updates: Enable automatic updates to ensure that you're always using the latest minification rules.

  • Page Caching: Speed up page load times by caching whole pages.

  • Customizable Compression Settings: Select which files are compressed and how much compression to use through an easy-to-use interface.

  • CDN Integration: Host stylesheets, scripts, images and other static files on your own Amazon S3 account or other supported Content Delivery Network (CDN) providers . You can also choose to host files on your own server.

  • Browser Caching: Serve site visitors static versions of dynamic pages and save database lookups, reducing server load significantly.

  • Reducing Server Load: Reduce the resources required for page generation by eliminating unnecessary HTML tags from displaying content such as comments, trackbacks and other metadata.

Pricing

Total Cache Pro - $8.25/month

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