How to optimize your WordPress by caching in web hosting?

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There are WordPress plugins provided by web hosts that make WordPress caching easy. Caching is done by a combination of either data caching, file-based caching, or memory cache.


How to optimize WordPress?

The fastest and easiest way to optimize WordPress is by using caching. It helps to reduce data and files read from the server, and data read from the database.

File caching will cache the files in CDN servers for quick access.

CDN stands for Content Delivery Network

Memory cache makes use of server memory. It will depend on your web hosting memory size and speed. Memory caching is usually used to reduce database load.

Compression is another way to optimize your WordPress. Some plugins will provide automatic compression or on-the-load compression. Compression can be on images/files or network compression. Gzip is a common compression method for network traffic.

I recommend doing manual compression for your WordPress website images to achieve a better effect of optimization. This will be the next topic for WordPress optimization.

SiteGround Optimizer

SiteGround optimizer uses data caching, file caching, and memory caching using Memcached.

SiteGround Optimizer
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Cloudflare

Cloudflare cache your WordPress static HTML, and static assets (images, JavaScript, CSS). The difference from other caching plugins is, Cloudflare stores the cache at their massive edge network.

Cloudflare

A2 Optimized WP

A2 Optimized WP optimizes your WordPress website and provides security simultaneously. It has the features,

  • Page caching
  • Gzip compression
  • Redis object caching
  • Minify HTML pages
  • Automatic database optimizations
  • Compress images on upload
  • Minify inline CSS and JavaScript
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Conclusion

WordPress caching is not limited to these plugins. There are other plugins you can try out by searching at https://wordpress.org/plugins/. The way to optimize depends on where you host your WordPress website. Choose a WordPress hosting wisely to prevent any problems in the future.

More topics on WordPress will be coming.