W3 Total Cache boosts the SEO and user experience of your site by improving website performance, reducing download times via features such as content delivery network (CDN) integration.
The only web host agnostic WordPress Performance Optimization (WPO) framework recommended by numerous web developers and web hosts. Trusted by lots of companies such as AT&T, stevesouders.com, mattcutts.com, mashable.com, smashingmagazine.com, makeuseof.com, webdesignerdepot.com, css-tricks.com, kiss925.com, pearsonified.com, lockergnome.com, johnchow.com, ilovetypography.com and thousands of others.
Plugin Features
- Compatible with shared hosting, virtual private/dedicated servers and dedicated servers/clusters.
- Transparent content delivery network (CDN) management with Media Library, theme files and WordPress itself.
- Mobile support: respective caching of pages by referrer or groups of user agents including theme switching for groups of referrers or user agents.
- Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP) support.
- Secure Socket Layer (SSL) support.
- Caching of (minified and compressed) pages and posts in memory or on disk or on (FSD) CDN (by user agent group).
- Caching of (minified and compressed) CSS and JavaScript in memory, on disk or on CDN.
- Caching of feeds (site, categories, tags, comments, search results) in memory or on disk or on CDN.
- Caching of search results pages (i.e. URIs with query string variables) in memory or on disk.
- Caching of database objects in memory or on disk.
- Caching of objects in memory or on disk.
- Caching of fragments in memory or on disk.
- Minification of posts and pages and feeds.
- Minification of inline, embedded or 3rd party JavaScript (with automated updates).
- Minification of inline, embedded or 3rd party CSS (with automated updates).
- Browser caching using cache-control, future expire headers and entity tags (ETag) with “cache-busting”.
- JavaScript grouping by template (home page, post page etc) with embed location control.
- Non-blocking JavaScript embedding.
- Import post attachments directly into the Media Library (and CDN).
- WP-CLI support for cache purging, query string updating and more.
- Various security features.
- Caching statistics for performance insights.
- Extension framework for customization or extensibility e.g. New Relic, Cloudflare, WPML and more.
- Reverse proxy integration via Nginx or Varnish.
