Why it’s important to use a WordPress caching plugin
Contents
Why it’s important to use a WordPress caching plugin
- What is Cache?
- Why is caching important?
- SiteGround caching Plugin
- WP Rocket Plugin
- It’s Speed that matters
- SiteGround Speed test
- WP Rocket Speed test
- Final Conclusion
1. What is Cache?
In this guide I will not only inform you but show you why it so important that every WordPress site needs a caching plugin. Caching is used to boost the speed of each page that loads when your visitors visit them.
WordPress is a dynamic content management system and this means that that each time a webpage is visited WordPress gets the required information from a database. It takes several steps for the information to get from the database to the user’s web browser. So, if you have many users at your website at the same time this can slow the server response as its now got to get the same information from the database for each user.
This is where caching plugin comes into its own. Once a user has been to one of your pages it’s loads that page into the server’s memory and keeps it there for the next visitor and WordPress does not have to go to the database time and time again to get the same information.
2. Why is caching important?
There are several reasons why caching is vitally important.
It reduces the load of the hosting server which then makes it run faster. Google take notes of websites than load fast and this is why one of Googles latest algorisms focus on. It wants the best user’s experience and Google gives any websites an SEO boost for fast loading times.
There are many caching plugins and I will only focus two here in this guide. One is from the Hosting company SiteGround I use and the second is Premium plugin WP Rocket.