Better WP caching plugin is Light Speed Cache?

I have been messing around with a couple caching plugins and wanted to share my thoughts and perhaps some input. I went with WP Rocket, WP Cache, Pagespeed ninja, and then LightSpeed Cache.

I was going in between WP Rocket and LightSpeed Cache.

- After going through the settings I enabled most of everything.
CSS minify and one file
JS minify and one file
- At this point I found I needed to go through chrome tools and find if I had any styles or scripts that need to be excluded.
- After I selected to defer my JS and again I had one file that I had to track down and exclude from the list.
- Lazy load on images and iframes (g maps)
- Compressed the images

- My GTMetrix "Fully Load Time" 2.7 and "Total Page Size" 1.59MB". Also noticed my host TTFB is all over .3s to 1.5s. All is working it seems but wondering if should look at anything else?

I found on the few test i did lightspeed cache to be faster. Which do most of you perfer? Also I am wondering if using a CDN is even needed for speed/SEO on this particular site as most visitors will be from the local area?

Sorry if this should go in a different thread.

If your site is full static try Full cache cloudflare for example, this will reduce your TTFB Worldwide

trollini said:

If your site is full static try Full cache cloudflare for example, this will reduce your TTFB Worldwide

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Does it matter though if it's just a local site?

Also should I look at a new host if the TTFB is getting high?

Thanks

You want the fastest possible wp setup?

https://www.wpintense.com/2018/10/20/installing-the-fastest-wordpress-stack-ubuntu-18-mysql-8/

there you go

Can you share your LiteSpeed Cache settings file ? I'm currently running my wordpress website on an openlitespeed server but didn't really touched the plugin settings cause I found it too complicated

Max5 said:

Can you share your LiteSpeed Cache settings file ? I'm currently running my wordpress website on an openlitespeed server but didn't really touched the plugin settings cause I found it too complicated

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Once you enable it in cPanel upload the plugin to WP.

Honestly I didn't go into depth because I was trying to test out which plugin I was going to actually use and than go in depth on the settings.

I would just leave the first 3 tabs default, if you want to exclude any pages/post/cat than do so on tab 4
Click advance
On tab 5 and 6 is where most your settings will be to configure.
On tab 5 start with change a setting or 2 at a time. Minify the CSS and JS and check. Async your css to load with other processes and check. Combine css to one file and check. Once you get to deferring JS you'll usaully have an issue with something that might need to load first so you'll need to go through dev tools and check which scripts you might need to load. Combine into one file and check again.

I had to exclude 1 css file and 2 scripts.

Be sure to purge each time you check.

also heres a site to check for tutorial

https://blog.litespeedtech.com/2017/11/22/wpw-the-beginners-guide-to-litespeed-cache-for-wordpress/

Once you have that section sorted, id throw on lazy load and exclude any top images. Also compress all your images and size them properly before uploading them to your WP.

CakeRake said:

You want the fastest possible wp setup?

https://www.wpintense.com/2018/10/20/installing-the-fastest-wordpress-stack-ubuntu-18-mysql-8/

there you go

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I'll take a peek thanks !

Anyone have suggestions for host btw.