WordPress Caching Compared - LiteSpeed v WP Rocket v W3 Total Cache v WP Fastest Cache (Who WINS?!)

After dicking around trying to speed up my website that's self-hosted for my business, I just said screw it and bought WP-rocket.

Were you running Litespeed server when you tested Litespeed cache? You really didn't set it up like you did the other plugins. I had Wp Rocket and it isn't better than Litespeed cache.Neither is W3 total cache.

No nitropack?

Very nice video. Thanks for uploading!

Awesome analytic job! Thanks Man!!! Perfect video...

K-A-SH

I'm glad I found you!

I have a question, for these tests: what was the environment used Apache, Nginx or LiteSpeed server ?

Even though this is an "old" video, I liked the way you showed your basic setups for the different caching plugins, and you went through a lot of work to do all the setups, run the test, and then create that chart. I've been playing with some of these caching plugins for a few days now (before I found your video here), and I find a lot of inconsistent scores from one time to another time...same website...nothing different...run tests and get really high scores...go back an hour later or a few minutes later and get crummy scores. It's frustrating.

W3 cache is by far the best , even the free version is better that wprocket all day long

All those page speed test sites are not good at all . Use Google’s insights tool . After all it’s google that ranks your site not the others . Think about it ? Doesn’t it make sense to use the tool from the company that actually serves up your website ? Do you go to gtmetrix and use it as a search engine ??? No of course you don’t , so why use a third party to test your site speed when google has its own speed test tool called google insights .

What server does your web host use? Apache or Nginx or Litespeed?

Anyone ones a website can check website speed worldwide ? Like any country in the world

Autopzime is not caching program, but ok... I combine it with WP Rocket.

Can we use wp rocket and w3 total cache both?
If yes then what settings we need to do that both plugin don't conflict

I think it was mentioned a few times but Autoptimize you'd run with for example SG optimizer if you are hosted at siteground. Like im running those 2 and then Optimole image optimization because it doesnt tinker with the original files (never double optimizing an image)

Litespeed is different. You should not compare any of them with Litespeed.

In your case, Litespeed is not performing because you might be on Nginx server or Apache.

To use Litespeed Plugin, you must be in Litespeed server.

And WP Rocket is nothing in front of Litespeed.

Litespeed is 12x faster then WP Rocket if you properly do the server level setup.

Thanks for trying all of them, I had patience only to compare 2. Just wodnering, have you restored web after each test? Because I was thinking one can optimize web for another one later. So I was mainly playing back and forth to get the best results.

Good comparison and thanks for your work.


The one quibble I have is that Autoptimize is not really a caching program. It's set up to work with a caching program. I like to use WP Fastest Cache with it. Those two together gives me 90's in the Google Page Speed test.

You shouldn't recommend litespeed cache to users who aren't running litespeed as their web server technology. From the looks of your review, it seems you're not running it either. The litespeed plugin works in sync with litespeed web servers to provide server side caching, the other caching plugins are using site (page) caching. As a result, litespeed is under-performing in your test. Litespeed also takes it further with their custom version of memcached, which I run on all my sites and servers.

This is interesting. Though it's not an entirely fair comparison, as you didn't enable the same optimization features among all of the plugins. LiteSpeed Cache, for instance, you only enabled page caching. But browser caching would have helped with that F you got, and CSS/JS minification/combination would have also helped with the speed. You enabled those features in subsequent plugin tests, but you didn't enable them for LiteSpeed, or WP Super Cache.