Why should you choose WP Rocket as a caching plugin for your WordPress website?
If you have been or are looking for a cache plugin to increase the loading speed of your WordPress website, you must have at least once seen the name WP Rocket, right? Although up to now, there are only about 450,000 websites using this plugin (official, not including pirated ones), however, according to many reputable bloggers, WP Rocket deserves to be considered as The best caching plugin for WordPress platform. Why so?
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Why should you choose the WP Rocket plugin?
WP Rocket is not a free plugin. The lowest package (Personal – used for 1 site) of this plugin also costs up to $39 (equivalent to about 850,000 VND) for 1 year of support and updates. This is also the reason that this plugin is not really as popular as WP Super Cache or W3 Total Cache.
But everything has its price. The reason the provider offers such a high price for a caching plugin is because its features really outperform the competition. You can see a feature comparison table between WP Rocket and some other popular caching plugins right below:
Installing and using WP Rocket is also very easy. We have already written a tutorial for this plugin. You can see more in the reference link at the beginning of the article.
Outstanding features of WP Rocket
In addition to the main feature of creating cache (Page Caching and Browser Caching) to increase the loading speed of the website, reduce the use of hosting resources, WP Rocket also has many built-in features that are extremely useful in optimizing. WordPress source code:
- Cache Preloading: automatically regenerate cache, help search engines crawl better.
- Sitemap Preloading: automatically reload cache based on XML sitemap. Supports sitemap of Yoast SEO, All In One SEO Pack and Jetpack.
- GZIP Compression: enable GZIP data compression.
- Database Optimization: clean up junk data and optimize WordPress database.
- Google Fonts Optimization: optimize the loading of Google Fonts.
- Remove Query Strings from Static Resources: remove query strings from static data (JS, CSS).
- Lazyload: lazyload feature for images, videos and iframes.
- Minification/ Concatenation: merges, compresses JS, CSS files as well as HTML source code, helping to reduce page-size and number of HTTP queries.
- Disable Emoji: disable Emoji if you don’t use it.
- Disable WordPress embeds: disable Embed Script if you don’t use it.
- Optimize CSS delivery: optimize the display of CSS files, fix CSS errors that block content display on Google PageSpeed Insights. The special feature of this feature is that it will automatically generate critical CSS. You don’t need to do it manually like other plugins.
- Defer JS Loading: asynchronously download JS files, fix JS file errors that block content display on Google PageSpeed Insights.
- CloudFlare Compatibility: supports connecting to CloudFlare accounts, helping you to delete cache files on CloudFlare easily.
- CDN: support CDN services.
- DNS Prefetching: DNS prefetch, reduce DNS response time of external domains (external domains).
- Mobile Detection: automatically detect mobile devices, optimize cache for mobile devices.
- Multisite Compatibility: compatible with WordPress multi-site.
- eCommerce Friendly: good support for e-commerce plugins, such as WooCommerce, Easy Digital Downloads…
- Multilingual Compatibility: compatible with multilingual website creation plugins, such as WPML, Polylang…
- Import/Export: export/import setup data easily.
Conclude
WP Rocket has the ability to optimize the actual web load speed as well as increase the Google PageSpeed Insights, GTmetrix and Pingdom scores very well. Therefore, it is always our first choice when providing WordPress website optimization services to customers. In my opinion, this is really a great value for money plugin. WP Rocket is only slightly behind LiteSpeed Cache in terms of actual performance (but more often in PageSpeed Insights scores) when used on LiteSpeed web server. The rest, it can be considered the “king” on the Apache and NginX web servers.
Have you ever used the WP Rocket plugin? How do you rate the ability to optimize the loading speed of this plugin? Let us know your views and opinions in the comment box below.
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