Google has always wanted its users to have the best experience possible with the sites listed on its search engine. If the user experience for websites is poor, Google doesn't like to rank those sites. Now, talking about the user experience, the page loading speed has a direct impact on deciding the user experience. In 2010, Google officially announced that page speed is directly linked to your website ranking.
What is Wp Rocket?
WP Rocket is a popular all in one cache plugin that is specially designed for websites that helps you speed up your website and solve messy caching problems. Despite being the most powerful plugin, it is very easy to use. You don't need any kind of technical or extraordinary skills to operate it.
Ithas a wide range of options and automatic customization features, so it can be easily used by experienced and beginners alike. This ensures to the users that the website will load faster and you will get the desired amount of traffic with better SEO and increased conversions.
What does this WordPress plugin WP Rocket do?
Another cool thing about WP Rocket is that it automatically starts caching your website when you install it. All core features are enabled by default. It does this for the most part without needing to change the setting, but if you want to enable more features, you can enable them in the Dashboard with Settings.
When you install WP Rocket plugin, you will get to see this dashboard. Here you can see all the menus and settings. For better performance, you can tweak the settings.
In it, we'll take a closer look at all the settings and menus and explain how they can improve your website's page load speed. here is my:
cache
So in the Cache area there three caching options.
mobile cache
To make the website more responsive on mobile devices, you should enable this option. When you activate this option, it creates a separate cache file for mobile users, to ensure a smoother user experience on mobile.
user suffering
You must turn on this option when you want people to access restricted content on your website when they log in. In simple, this feature comes into play if you have a membership site so that they can only access the features. when they log in. So, the site will be cached separately for normal users who are not logged in and another set of cache files will be created for logged in users.
Cache Lifespace
Cache lifetime is the time that cached files remain cached until they are deleted and WP Rocket creates a new cache file.
The default limit set for 10 hours which works fine for most website, but if you have very busy sites with a lots of users and new content is updated several times throughout the day, you can limit the number of hours. can reduce.
file optimization
This section contains miniaturization and composition.
WP reduces the weight of CSS and JavaScript files through Rocket Ministry. Therefore, lighter files load faster.
JavaScript's source code can contain whitespace and comments to make it easier for developers, but users don't need them. So, WP Rocket removes them and makes the source code lightweight which allows browsers to load pages faster.
There is also an option to remove JS loading.
If you defer JavaScript the HTML document may load before the JavaScript file. This means that visitors cannot view your site until the JavaScript and CSS files are fully loaded. The advantage of this is that your site will load very quickly and the user can view all the websites loaded at once, which means they do not need to see partially loaded pages.
Media
The primary feature of the media section is lazy load to delay the loading of images or other media files until they are no longer required by the user.
If a user doesn't go down, the images for that part will not load so the loading time will be faster.
If you have a lot of YouTube videos on your page then WP Rocket can replace them with preview images which can greatly improve your loading times.
Preload
Preload feature creates cached file for first time users. You can also activate sitemap-based cache pre-loading which will automatically generate and preload sitemap detection for users
Advance rule
The default cache works fine for most websites, but if you are an advanced user and have a very complex website you may add some pages that you never want to be cached. If you don't want to do that then that's fine. This is just an advanced level option for more precision.
database
WordPress websites can get slow due to accumulation of a lot of junk data that is not necessary, this includes revisions, drafts and trashed posts.
Hence, by clicking on these options all the junk files will be removed from your database, resulting in faster loading of the page.
It can also remove spam and garbage comments, perform transient cleanup and optimize tables.
CDN
CDN provides you the option to add the CNAMEs of all static files containing css, js, images and other resources.
So, this is how you can get maximum speed from your CDN.
Heart beat
Heartbeat is a WordPress API that supplies real-time communication between a website and a server to sync data between the two.
The problem arises when users are logged into the website for a long time, resulting in a large number of requests being sent to the server. This creates a heavy load on the CPU causing server performance issues. With WP Rocket, you can limit or completely stop the activity of the WordPress Heartbeat API by choosing from the following three options: no limit
- reduce
- activity
- disabled
Add-On
Using this feature you can improve browser caching for Google Analytics and Facebook Pixel. You can access this feature by toggling the slider and you are good to go.
image optimization
WP Rocket has an image optimization feature called Imagify. It helps in optimizing images by compressing the images while maintaining the image quality. Imagination's pricing is: $8.99 p/month - 2GB data per month
Conclusion
Despite being a powerful WordPress plugin to get a fast loading WordPress site.
It is very simple and user friendly as well. I think paying $49 for WP Rocket is a good investment, considering its simplicity and convenience.
Although if you feel that you cannot spend this money without any effort, you can try WP Rocket free for 14 days.
Decide what suits you best and enjoy fast WordPress website.
