W3 Total CachebyFrederick Townes

Version: 2.6.1

Search Engine (SEO) & Performance Optimization (WPO) via caching. Integrated caching: CDN, Minify, Page, Object, Fragment, Database support.

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Minimal impact on memory usage The memory usage of this plugin is less than the average memory usage of other plugins on WordPress.org + 200KB. Check FAQ for more.
Minimal impact on pagespeed The impact of this plugin on PageSpeed is less than the average impact of other plugins on WordPress.org + 1000 milliseconds
No PHP errors, warning, notices WP Hive automated test found no PHP error while activating this plugin on our server
No Javascript issues WP Hive automated test found no JavaScrip error while activating this plugin on our server
Latest PHP 8.1.12 compatible WP Hive automated test found the plugin fully compatible with the latest version of PHP
Latest WordPress 6.4.1 compatible WP Hive automated test found the plugin fully compatible with the latest version of WordPress
Optimized database footprint The plugin creates less than 50 database tables
No activation errors WP Hive automated test found no activation error while activating this plugin on our server
No resource errors WP Hive automated test found no resource error/s while trying this plugin on our server
Frequently updated The plugin was updated at least once in the last 90 days

No problems were detected during tests.

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All the scripts run on a VPS with 8 CPU cores and 8 GB of RAM.
The test sites are hosted on Google Cloud VM instances, one site/plugin per instance. The machine type is n1-standard-1. The server is a 8 core CPU with 8GB of RAM.
The test sites are hosted on Apache/2 server and they are tested on PHP 8.1.12 & WordPress 6.4.1.
The database server is MySQL 10.6.10 and the default PHP memory limit is 512M.

46M

Total Downloads

1M

Active Installation

14 years

On WordPress

0.0%

Growth Rate

85

Support Thread

5298

Ratings on WordPress

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Downloads This Week

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About W3 Total Cache

Description

W3 Total Cache improves the SEO and user experience of your site by increasing website performance, reducing load times via features like content delivery network (CDN) integration and the latest best practices. The only web host agnostic Web Performance Optimization (WPO) framework for WordPress trusted by millions of publishers, web developers, and web hosts worldwide for more than a decade.....

The only web host agnostic Web Performance Optimization (WPO) framework for WordPress trusted by millions of publishers, web developers, and web hosts worldwide for more than a decade.

An inside look:

BENEFITS

Improvements in search engine result page rankings, especially for mobile-friendly websites and sites that use SSL
At least 10x improvement in overall site performance (Grade A in WebPagetest or significant Google Page Speed improvements) when fully configured
Improved conversion rates and “site performance” which affect your site’s rank on Google.com
“Instant” repeat page views: browser caching
Optimized progressive render: pages start rendering quickly and can be interacted with more quickly
Reduced page load time: increased visitor time on site; visitors view more pages
Improved web server performance; sustain high traffic periods
Up to 80% bandwidth savings via minify and HTTP compression of HTML, CSS, JavaScript and feeds

KEY FEATURES

Compatible with shared hosting, virtual private / dedicated servers and dedicated servers / clusters
Transparent content delivery network (CDN) management with Media Library, theme files and WordPress itself
Mobile support: respective caching of pages by referrer or groups of user agents including theme switching for groups of referrers or user agents
Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP) support
Secure Socket Layer (SSL) support
Caching of (minified and compressed) pages and posts in memory or on disk or on (FSD) CDN (by user agent group)
Caching of (minified and compressed) CSS and JavaScript in memory, on disk or on CDN
Caching of feeds (site, categories, tags, comments, search results) in memory or on disk or on CDN
Caching of search results pages (i.e. URIs with query string variables) in memory or on disk
Caching of database objects in memory or on disk
Caching of objects in memory or on disk
Caching of fragments in memory or on disk
Caching methods include local Disk, Redis, Memcached, APC, APCu, eAccelerator, XCache, and WinCache
Minification of posts and pages and feeds
Minification of inline, embedded or 3rd party JavaScript (with automated updates)
Minification of inline, embedded or 3rd party CSS (with automated updates)
Browser caching using cache-control, future expire headers and entity tags (ETag) with “cache-busting”
JavaScript grouping by template (home page, post page etc) with embed location control
Non-blocking JavaScript embedding
Import post attachments directly into the Media Library (and CDN)
WP-CLI support for cache purging, query string updating and more
Various security features
Caching statistics for performance insights
Extension framework for customization or extensibility e.g. New Relic, Cloudflare, WPML and more
Reverse proxy integration via Nginx or Varnish

Improve the user experience for your readers without having to change WordPress, your theme, your plugins or how you produce your content.

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Who do I thank for all of this?

It’s quite difficult to recall all of the innovators that have shared their thoughts, code and experiences in the blogosphere over the years, but here are some names to get you started:

Steve Souders
Steve Clay
Ryan Grove
Nicholas Zakas
Ryan Dean
Andrei Zmievski
George Schlossnagle
Daniel Cowgill
Rasmus Lerdorf
Gopal Vijayaraghavan
Bart Vanbraban
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Performance

Memory Usage

Average memory usage is69.32 KB
This is more than58%plugins

Page Speed

Average page loading time is increased by 0 s
This is faster than99%plugins

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Change

Average Change

- 0s

/(front page)

- 0.13s

/wp-admin/edit-comments.php

- 0.27s

/wp-admin/edit-tags.php?taxonomy=category

+ 0.01s

/wp-admin/edit.php

- 0.08s

/wp-admin/index.php

- 0.02s

/wp-admin/media-new.php

+ 0.04s

/wp-admin/options-discussion.php

+ 0.13s

/wp-admin/options-writing.php

+ 0.05s

/wp-admin/post-new.php

+ 0.24s

/wp-admin/post-new.php?post_type=page

+ 0.19s

/wp-admin/upload.php

- 0.13s

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Change

Average Change

+ 69.32KB

/ (front page)

+ 21.01KB

/wp-admin/edit-comments.php

+ 71.38KB

/wp-admin/edit-tags.php?taxonomy=category

+ 74.05KB

/wp-admin/edit.php

+ 81.33KB

/wp-admin/index.php

+ 73.6KB

/wp-admin/media-new.php

+ 69.8KB

/wp-admin/options-discussion.php

+ 69.82KB

/wp-admin/options-writing.php

+ 68.64KB

/wp-admin/post-new.php

+ 79.74KB

/wp-admin/post-new.php?post_type=page

+ 77.69KB

/wp-admin/upload.php

+ 75.43KB

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W3 Total CachebyFrederick Townes

Version : 2.6.1

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14 years

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85

5298

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