Top 5 Plugins To Speed Up WordPress In 2022 (Caching Plugins And More)
Are you looking for a caching or minifying plugin for WordPress? Or just looking for ways to speed up your WordPress installation?
Either way, I’ve got you covered.
In this post, you’ll discover 10 powerful plugins that will make your WordPress website load faster. You’ll find caching plugins, minifying plugins, lazy loading plugins, and some additional plugins that allow you to make various tweaks to your website.
1. WP Rocket
Features:
- User-friendly interface
- Minimal tweaking required for speed improvements
- Minify CSS, HTML and Javascript
- Page caching
- Cache pre-load
- Image lazy loading
- Advanced caching rules
- Database optimization
- CDN integration
- Direct Cloudflare integration
- Google Analytics integration to load the code from your server
- Settings import and export
- Version rollback
- Delay Javascript execution time
2. Perfmatters
Features:
- Works with your existing caching plugin
- Disable WordPress options that are slowing your site down
- Disable scripts on per page/post basis
- Supports advanced performance boosting functionality such as DNS prefetch and preconnect
- REST API control
- Heartbeat control
- Lightweight plugin
3. NitroPack
Features:
- Automatic website optimization
- Supports WordPress and other content management systems
- Global CDN included and automatically configured
- Various caching types (page, browser, and more)
- Automatic image optimization
- Convert images to next gen formats
- DNS prefetching
- Defer JS loading
- HTML, JS and CSS minification
- HTML, CSS and JS compression
4. WP Fastest Cache
Features:
- Easy setup
- 1-click to clear cache and/or minified CSS etc
- Minify CSS and HTML
- Set posts/pages to exclude (some like admin area excluded by default)
- Set expiration times for all posts/pages or certain URL strings
- CDN integration
- Premium version available with extra features
5. Cache Enabler
Features:
- Simple setup
- 1-click to clear cache
- Set cache behaviour (e.g. clearing after new posts)
- Minification feature
- Set post ID’s to exclude from cache
- Set expiration times
There are plenty more ways to speed up your WordPress website as well, will tell you in next blog.
