Wp-rocket
 

Ya guys use it? Is it much better than the free plugins out there?

best cache plugin, use in 70% of my sites.

its a solid product

I love it, but you only get a year of updates, then you have to renew your license. The plugin will still work but you won't get updates.

Thanks for the info guys. Yeah having to pay for the updates is what I have a reservation. The first year it comes out to 4 bucks a month and I guess it goes down if you renew. I understand that they need to continue to support it. I'm just not sure how much more it's going to improve my sites.

I was reading about it the other day and it sounds very nice. I'm going to try it on a site for testing.

Regarding the pricing... I understand that nobody likes to pay yearly fees, but when I see software selling for a one time price I get very suspicious. If you want the software to continue improving, filling gaps, patching (especially WordPress)... it is simply not sustainable from the developers perspective to sell one product for a one time price, they would need some way of creating continued value from the same clients by either selling more products or by selling a support package.

Imagine trying to make reasonable money selling a product for a one-time fee of $50. There is just no way that could properly be supported from a customer support angle or a development angle.

A lifetime membership to a porn site that updates with new, exclusive content every week for $50? :-)

You're right on the updates as it costs money to support plugins on WordPress. I feel a better price for them would be $35, not $50.

I just scanned the site I want to get this plugin for and the Fully Loaded Time is 1.0s. Sometimes it's under 1 second.

Do you really think it's going to improve it all that much more using their plugin to justify their cost oppose to Super Cache, which is free? Let's say it does, does it really matter that much to pay 4 bucks a month per site? I'm leaning more towards a cdn to serve optimized images...

You should do both really, a good cache and a CDN. They work together beautifully and we have been able to work magic for clients by intertwining them.

If I were to pick a proper cache setup or a CDN though, I would go for the cache first. The page needs to load either way, CDN will help after the fact. You need that page to pop as quickly as possible, and that's where the cache goes in.

I'd be happy to give you a free run of CDN just to see what kind of boost you do get from that alone. Send me a PM and I'll give you a free TB to play with.

I have messed around with many plugins and this was the only one that just works. You can easily integrate cdns and it will create a static page of every post so WordPress doesn't have to generate it everytime someone visits your site.

For those wondering, I just bought WP Rocket. Very simple WordPress install I'm working on right now. The index was metered at 250ms. After turning WP Rocket with the base configuration, index is metered at 210ms.

Going to install our CDN shortly.

I have been testing different things with Wordpress lately and the best thing I have tried is using OpenLiteSpeed server and and LiteSpeed Cache. I had about 10 sites on a 4gig ram and 2 core VPS with Apache and it was slow with a high load. Now I have about 15 sites on a 2 gig ram and 1 core VPS and it runs very smoothly with a low load level. None of the sites get very much traffic, so I can't attest to how it would perform under high stress.

If you want, can you run it through gtmatrix and see what your other scores are before and after...

op there are free great options. you need to test them according to your host. kind of weird seeing an og here talking with us :)

It looks like I'm going to have to...I was hoping the people that were using it had some metrix. I've read what the WordPress bloggers have to say, but they're biased because they're selling the plugins... :)

All information will always be biased because whoever is collating the information has something specific they are trying to find out.

I'm going to get an unlimited license for WP Rocket because a lot of my clients should be using this, I'll let you test it out if you like so you don't have to drop the $40. I should have this tomorrow or Tuesday, depends on when they can upgrade me, I don't know what country they are in.

Ok, I bought it for a site to test and the results are pretty impressive.

PageSpeed Score: B(85%)
YSlow Score: A(92%)
Fully Loaded Time: 1.2s
Total Page Size: 375KB
Request: 22

With super cache on and off it didn't make a difference. Load times were 5+ seconds, the total page size 734K with 101 requests.

Thanks for mentioning this. I noticed cPanel trying to sell me a lightspeed server. I'm going to spin up an instance of it and see how it works...