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Don't trust your WordPress optimization plugin

December 22, 2022 Bleech
Siegfried, deploy!
Don't trust your WordPress optimization plugin
Show Notes

With caching you can speed up the loading time of your website. In this episode Steffen and Dominik dig into types of caching and discuss different WordPress plugins. It seems popular caching plugins turn into huge optimization plugins, but they might not necessarily be the right choice.

Highlights
00:00 Intro
00:29 What is caching?
01:32 Three big types of caching
06:57 It's not the browser cache!
07:35 How to achieve the biggest impact with low effort?
10:44 Looking at different WordPress caching plugins
16:20 Think twice before choosing a complex plugin
17:45 How we cache browser assets indefinitely
23:23 Our advice on WordPress caching
32:38 Conclusion


Links
Cache Enabler: https://de.wordpress.org/plugins/cache-enabler/
WP Super Cache: https://de.wordpress.org/plugins/wp-super-cache/
W3 Total Cache: https://wordpress.org/plugins/w3-total-cache/
Enable Media Replace: https://de.wordpress.org/plugins/enable-media-replace/
WP Fastest Cache: https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-fastest-cache/
Autoptimize: https://de.wordpress.org/plugins/autoptimize/
WP Rocket: https://wp-rocket.me/

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