A little about ezCache
ezCache is a lightweight, innovative cache plugin that will help you significantly improve your site's speed. (link to the plugin's site)
The plugin comes with a simple and easy installation out of the plugin directory official WordPress plugin directory, with no need for advanced technical knowledge,
The plugin offers the option to make your site much faster In a few simple steps, even without enabling any of its options, your website's loading time will shrink significantly.
The plugin contains an advanced option (PRO) of automatically optimizing images using the WebP format, to reduce the size of the images on your site by tens of percent, which will let you save traffic and shorten the site's load time.
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After installing the ezCache plugin – what are the next steps?
The first thing you should know after activating the plugin is so that the improvement in loading time can be seen that ezCache achieved only by enabling it in the default configuration of the plugin.
If you have advanced knowledge of how a website works in the browser, you can start further optimizing the plugin settings based on recommendations from performance testing tools such as Speedom, GTmetrix, Pingdom, or Google Developers PageSpeed Insights – although we usually recommend giving such tools low priority.
We recommend that you focus on site speed, and not waste time achieving a virtual result from an automated tool. Try to check page load time in practice using dedicated tools (such as Speedom for example).
What are the recommended settings for configuring ezCache?
In fact, There is no single recommended configuration of ezCache that can be used on every site.
Themes, plugins and hosting environments can vary greatly, so certain settings will work \ not work on different sites.
There is even an option such as file optimization – that will work perfectly on one site but will not work at all on another. So sometimes leaving a setting completely disabled can be the best thing!
On the other hand, there are several key options – such as page caching, browser caching of static files and GZIP compression – they are completely automatic, they do not even appear in your settings page, but they work quietly and perform their magic behind the scenes, making your site faster without you having to lift a finger.
Automatic options
The following options work automatically behind the scenes and do not appear on ezCache's settings page:
- Page cache – (static HTML file cache)
- Browser cache for file validation
- GZIP compression
- SSL cache
Details of the options
Are you looking for a specific option? Here is a short overview of all the options in the plugin.
Statistics
- Desktop – the number of pages and their size that were used (stored in the cache) by browsers on desktop computers.
- Mobile – the number of pages and their weight that were used (stored in the cache) by mobile browsers.
- expired cache – the number of pages and their weight that are not in use because they have expired and are waiting to be cleaned (according to a scheduled task defined in the "Settings" tab).
- JavaScript files – the number of JavaScript files and their weight that were optimized and saved in the cache.
- CSS files – the number of CSS files and their weight that have been optimized and saved in the cache.
- WebP images – the number of images and their weight that went through the optimization process (in the cloud) and were served back to the site, and are currently in use.
Settings
Caching
- Don't cache for known users – This action disables the use of cache for logged-in users or guests who left comments on posts.
- Keep a separate cache for mobile – Saves separate cache files for browsers on mobile devices and a separate file for browsers on computers. It is recommended to enable this option only if the theme is not responsive and you are using a theme or plugin that generates a separate mobile version.
- Don't cache links that contain parameters in the URL (Query string) – Do not cache a page if the link contains parameters, for example ?page_id=15 at the end of the link.
- Automatically clear the cache for a post or page that was updated – make sure your visitors read the most up-to-date messages by clearing the cache when you update or publish a post, and when visitors leave comments on a post.
file optimization
- Disable Emojis – Remove code related to Emoji that was recently added to WordPress to support Emoji in older browsers.
- Optimizing Google fonts – combining several requests for Google fonts into a single request.
- Image optimization with WebP – The WebP format is a modern image format that provides excellent compression for images on the web. WebP images are 26% smaller than PNG images, and 25-34% smaller than comparable JPEG images. (This option is available to ezCache Pro users \ to ezCache users during the 30-day trial \ to sites permanently hosted on uPress servers.)
- Enable HTML minification – reduce the HTML in order to reduce the size of the cached file.
- Minify inline JavaScript – include inline JavaScript in the HTML in the minification process.
- Minify inline CSS – include inline CSS in HTML in the minification process.
- Enable JavaScript minification – minify JavaScript files to reduce their size.
- Combine JavaScript at the top of the page – merging multiple JavaScript files located at the top of the page into a single file in order to reduce HTTP requests.
- Combine JavaScript in the page body – Merge multiple JavaScript files located in the page body into a single file in order to reduce HTTP requests.
- Enable CSS minification – Minify CSS files in order to reduce their size.
- CSS combining – Combining multiple CSS files into one file in order to reduce HTTP requests.
- Cache expiration – How long to keep the cache for each page; a recommended and effective starting point is one day, and it is not advisable to set a very short cache expiry.
- Check expired cache – an automatically scheduled action that checks the validity of cache files and deletes files that have expired.
Advanced settings
Cache bypass
- Disable cache for the marked page types – (post page, pages, main page, home page, archive, tags, categories, feeds, search results, author archive)
- Links (URLs) that will never be cached – (open text field for entering a URL to exclude from caching)
- User Agents that will never receive cache – an open text field for entering a User Agent that will never be cached.
Actions
- Clear cache
- Run a speed test
- Purchase \ enter license code for ezCache PRO
