When it comes to speeding up your WordPress website, you only have one shot. Serve slow-loading pages to your audience, and you won’t know what hit your bottomline. We recommend using a WordPress caching plugin to avoid the mayhem of slow pages.
What is the end result? You will increase your page load speeds, make your users happy and reap abundantly down the road.
Why serve fast-loading pages? Mostly because people and search engines don’t like slow websites. Yep, a slow website means you have nothing of value to offer, and search engines won’t hesitate to send your beloved website to oblivion.
Show your readers some love with super-fast pages and they will love you to the moon and back. Between you and me, I know you hate slow loading pages too. That being said, you must be in beast mode at all times when your website speeds are concerned.
As far as speed goes, the faster people (and search engines) get to your content, the better. Otherwise, you will wait for your customers like a passenger by the bus stop – only problem is they won’t come, unlike the bus.
So don’t run yourself into the ground with a sluggish website. Don’t give that slow set of pages any love; get a WordPress cache plugin and get addicted to speed.
If you feel like you can’t slow down, you’re in the right place because in this post we cover 7 of the best WordPress caching plugins to speed up your website in 2022 and beyond.
If you don’t find your favorite caching plugin, don’t be disappointed. Instead, bring the fight to the comment section at the end of the post. Or have a look at our full guide on how to speed up WordPress.
A Quick Note on WordPress Caching
So what is this caching business all about? I hate duplicate content because it is bad for your SEO efforts, so I’ll drop a quote from a past article that shows you how to clean WordPress cache like the pros. Here it is:
In general computing terms, caching is simply storing data in temporary memory as opposed to the main memory. Cache (pronounced cash) is a technology through which a piece of hardware or software stores temporary data that’s faster to retrieve the second time you need it.
Caching is all about increasing your website page load speeds. We have four main types of caching namely:
- Browser caching, which is caching built into browsers such Chrome, Mozilla Firefox and so on
- Server caching, which happens on the server-side. It is usually maintained by your web host
- 3rd-party caching that is provided by third parties such as content delivery networks (CDNs). Examples of popular CDNs include CloudFlare and KeyCDN among others
- Plugin cache, the type that WordPress caching plugins offer, and also the main subject of this article
In the following section, we cover both free and premium WordPress caching plugins. Whether you go for a free or premium WP cache plugin, ensure you pick one that’s suitable for your website.
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This article was written by Freddy and originally published on WPExplorer.