The ‘optimization of a website that is made with WordPress, finds many facilities even in operations not really feasible by less experienced users such as speeding up the site. WordPress in fact, goes to meet the needs of those who want to do SEO on their website, providing an infinity of plugins that help to fine-tune the most diverse situations.

A great plugin to speed up wordpress, is W3 Total Cache, which allows you to make speed improvements to your web pages by going to modify different components depending on your setting. So let’s go over how I was able to make wordpress faster and what settings I configured in w3 Total cache.

How to set up W3 Total Cache
Once I downloaded the plugin to speed up wordpress, I set the following changes to never see my wordpress slow again.

In the panel of the installed plugin, you can read the following entries:

• general;
• page cache;
• minify;
• database cache;
• object cache;
• browser cache;
• licencyng.

Continue reading the Dear Web article to find out more about this plugin.

General
I started without checking the box named “Toggle all caching type”. Checking this box tells the plugin to activate all the features it has, none excluded. Better to go ahead and ‘activate only the specific items.

Page Cache
It is in my opinion what this plugin was born for, by speeding up the caching of wordpress pages in fact, you can get important improvements both in terms of navigability and permanence on the site ( users stay more willingly to the benefit of the bounce rate).

By activating this feature, you will tell the plugin to save the pages to return them faster to the clients avoiding making new queries to the data base.

Minify
Minify is another important configuration to mention, as with it you are going to compress css and javascript, even before saving it in the cache. Spaces, comments and other characters are removed. So enable qesta function to give WordPress more boost and speed, using the default automatic method.

Database Cache
This should also be enabled, to cache the queries that are most frequently made precisely to the database.

Object Cache
Enable this feature as well.

Browser Cache
Enabling this configuration commands the speedup plugin, to compress the data before it is returned to the browsers.

Licencyng
In this space, the code to activate the paid part of the plugin should be added. In fact, W3 Total Cache, has other features that used individually each of them will speed up WordPress most likely more and more.

Although this is a great plugin this to make WordPress fast, to get the performance I currently have I have also made other changes of which I will talk about in the next articles I will write to enrich the category of my site seo on site.

Before using this plugin I had a period in which I did not use any at all, without even getting my hands on the code, and another period in which I used Wp Super Cache, another great plugin.

And it was when I had installed Wp Super cache that I noticed most strongly that by speeding up wordpress you can achieve better performance which then translates into more views on search engines.

In the following picture you notice the 3 different moments :

• with W3 Total Cache;
• without any active plugin;
• with Wp Super cache active.

The substantial difference that is noticeable, is on the weight of the analyzed page. In fact, it went from over 830 kB without speeding plugins and with the Wp Super cache plugin, to 665 KB with Wp3 Total cache.

Another difference that is noticeable is the number of requests made to the database, in fact you can see that without a plugin the requests stand at 38, and obviously go up when installing the Wp Super chache plugin to 40.

I say obviously because by inserting a plugin it is logical that the requests increase.

Different thing happened instead by configuring Total cache, after that operation in fact, the number of requests dropped even to 31, less than I had without plugin.

After getting a small positive result, I did not resign myself, however, to look at it complacently. But driven by the desire to better optimize my site to make it the fastest WordPress site around, I decided to get my hands on the htaccess file.