W3 Total Cache is the Single most important plugin for a WordPress blog. It must be installed for a new blogger. if you want a review of this beautiful plugin i would like to request you to Google it ! I am here to show the best settings for this plugin.
Actually those who dont have much knowledge about coding or such things may get into trouble after install this plugin. I also felt that problem, so i have decided to write a post about the settings that should apply for best results. So lets begin:
General Settings of W3 Total Cache:
After installing the plugin Go to Dashboard. Click on the Performance from the left Menu bar. Start from the General settings. Make a Backup then Proceed. You may be prompted to allow W3 Total Cache to install lines of code in your .htaccess file.
Page cache: The page cache makes static pages from your dynamic content and serves them up to your users, instead of creating pages on-demand, which reduces your server load. Enable page caching to decrease the response time of your site.
Minify: Removes line breaks, comments and spaces from CSS and HTML files to decrease their size, thus delivers them quickly to the user. Minification can decrease file size of HTML, CSS, JS and feeds respectively by ~10% on average. Enable minify.
Minify mode: Auto
Minify Cache Method: Disk
Others are default.
Database Cache: It Saves the results of database queries instead of looking to the database every time the request is made, which significantly reduces the impact on your SQL server. Enable database caching to reduce post, page and feed creation time.
Database Cache Method: Disk
Enable Object Cache and Browser Cache. CDN , Varnish or Cloudflare not suitable for me, if you want go at your own risk. I think thats not necessary.
In Miscellaneous settings: Enable Verify rewrite rules. You can Enable Google Page Speed dashboard widget if you wish. Get your API by following the rules mentioned there.
Save All Settings
Page cache settings of W3 Total Cache
See the Image for Better understandings. For most users, you won’t really need to touch the Advanced settings.
Purge policy: The purge policy dictates which pages should be rebuilt in the cache when a new post is published. Enable Home page, Post page and Blog Feed.
Minify settings of W3 Total Cache:
See the Image.
Enable JS and CSS minify. No need to change advanced settings.
Database cache settings
Enable Don’t cache queries for logged in user. Keep Default in Advanced settings.
Object Cache:
Keep Default
Browser Cache Settings:
Thats All, Thanks.
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Thanks for this tutorial… How to optimize for mobile?
Thanks bro am really really grateful!
Nice Post! Though my best Cache Plugin is WP Super Cache!
w3 is better than WP Super cache, read it in review.