5 Best WordPress Plugins to Make Your Blog Load Faster
It is very annoying for a viewer to wait when any web page takes hours to load. So, even if you write Quality content in your site, you’re all hard work may go waste if it takes long time to load and come up on screen. You may even lose your visitor because of this. WordPress provides some really useful plugins which can help you to optimize your blog and make it load faster in no time. Here, I list you 5 most useful Plugins for faster loading of your blog.
This plugin generates static html files from your dynamic WordPress blog. When a html File is generated your web server will serve that file instead of processing the comparatively heavier and more expensive WordPress php scripts. The static html files will be served to the vast majority of your users, but because a user’s details are displayed in the Comment form after they leave a comment those requests are handled by PHP. This plugin is found to be very useful for all the bloggers using them and is the largest downloaded plugins among all the plugins listed to lower down a bog’s loading time.
Trusted by many popular blogs like: mashable.com, pearsonified.com, webdesignerdepot.com, freelanceswitch.com, briansolis.com, css3.info, tutsplus.com, yoast.com, noupe.com and others — W3 Total Cache improves the user experience of your blog by improving your server performance, caching every aspect of your site, reducing the download time of your theme and providing transparent content delivery network (CDN) integration. It also provides up to 80% Bandwidth savings via Minify and HTTP compression of HTML, CSS, JavaScript and RSS feeds.
#3 WP Minify
This plugin integrates the Minify engine into your WordPress blog. Once enabled, this plugin will combine and compress JS and CSS files to improve page load time. It grabs JS/CSS files in your generated WordPress page and passes that list to the Minify engine. The Minify engine then returns a consolidated, minified, and compressed script or style for WP Minify to reference in the WordPress header. You can easily integrate Minify into your WordPress blog. The debug mode also enables you to combine files without minifying them.
#4 Free CDN
This plugins is found to be really helpful when you have static files like Images, JavaScript or CSS taking a long time to load and slowing your site down. Using a CDN to transfer such kind of static content is highly recommended if you have a busy website as it reduces server load and bandwidth thus improves stability and availability. If you are paying bandwidth fee, this plugin hopefully helps with your bills. Even if you don’t, enabling it may save your site in peak times!
#5 GZIP Output
This plugin helps you to automatically compress CSS, JavaScript and HTML output of your web pages, allowing it to travel faster from your blog to a visitor’s browser. According to Best practices On Yahoo! Developer Network: “Gzipping generally reduces the response size by about 70%. Approximately 90% of today’s Internet traffic travels through browsers that claim to support GZIP.” Installing this plugin will simply help your page to load faster in the viewer’s screen.
Try out the above plugins and let me know which one of these you find most useful to use and which one helps you to make your blog load faster.
After reading this pot i installed WP Super Cache to my blog. now its loading more faster than before.
Thats good to know. Did you change any on the settings?
Yes, there are settings for the plugins.
Can you Do a benchmark test on this? Thanks.
Don’t know if my browser or internet connection is so bad, but when i click crazyblogger.net, it’s took about 7 second to generated.
After read about gzip output, i think it’s recommended for you
i have used WP super cache and i can say buddy….it rocks
Are these plugins free of charge?
Yes most plug ins are free. In fact I never encountered a none free plug in.
That’s why many blogspot platform user is transfer their blog to WP. Anyway, is there any blogspot plugin which have same function with that list above?
Renino, Yes free, try to learn more about WordPress and wordpress blogs.
Thanks ZXT and Anish! I’ll try one for my blog.
I have WP super cache and it really improved the blog leading speeds for sure. I haven’t tried the other one’s, but this Wp super chache is the best one.
I am working desperately on making my blog load faster. I have removed several plugin and will definitely give these a try. Thanks:)
Not only the Pluggins Slowing Blogs, if your Images are in big n size, that will also affect the loading time.
Images will always slow loading time, but I always have little images and never have massive images, but overall it won’t affect loading time a lot if yoy use WP Super Cache.
I’m using super cache but when checking with website checker it says I’m not using any cache plug in.
Anyways I noticed this “It is very annoying for a viewer to wait when any web page takes hours to load.”
Maybe you really mean minutes instead of hours? Never seen any page would take an hour to load.
Your browser will surely complain if it tries to wait for a long period of time until the time-out period. I think, the time-out period is not hours but minutes only.
Yes thats why I pointed it out. Must be a typo.
Yes, WP super cache is one of the must one in your WP Plugin list.
Thanks for sharing this.
WP Super Cache latest version come with an error. I don’t know why they don’t fix it yet. I am waiting for latest WordPress compatible version. Before using any of this plugin one should backup the whole database and also open File manager on cPanel or open the plugin folder via FTP, so that if anything goes wrong they can delete it as fast as possible to make their blog alive if they going to use it on live site.
What error did you get?
ZXT, are you using the plugin ” WP Super Cache ” in your blog ?.
Yes I am. But when I checked it online using something (I forgot) it says I am not using any cache plug in.
How is current condition, still same? There is so many probability. Maybe there is another plugin on your wp which crash with wp super cache?
No problem for me, re-install the plugin and try.
are you using latest versions.
man 70% seriously? gonna try the gzip output..
super cache sometime have problem with other plugin, that why i not using it.
70 percent faster? Really?
A short time ago I wrote an article on using gzip to compress your blog’s data through PHP.
It basically does what the plugin will Do but you don’t need to add yet one more plugin. It’s one simple copy and paste of code put into your header.php File.
On the article I wrote, I show benchmarks and how you can test it (use http://www.port80software.com to test it).
The percentage I saved was 79% in speed up of my content.
Incredible, then…
I think i should change my favourite from WP cache into this one. If 70% can be saved, even dial up connection user can browse comfortably.
Really? It will be very rapid, then. If normally your blog loaded on 2 second, now it can be generated just for 0.6 second..!!! Seem impossible? Well, just try
nice collection
thanks for the plugin lists.
i use wp super cache, i didnt tried the rest.
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Not deeply learning about WP since i’m blogspot user. But WP cache is the most famous, even i’m not WP user, i know it. I find there is so many recommendation on using that plugin. If i’m use WP, i will surely choose it.
Agree that loading time is an important thing.
Many have recommended me Wp Super Cache. I will try it today and see whether it works.
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W3 Total Cache has been a better performer for my site, it is loaded with more features that WP Super Cache too. However not all the features are working on my site. I’m trying to Reduce HTML lookups by combining JS and CSS which W3 Total Cache and WP Minify can Do, but neither work on my site for that aspect.
i found the best to be wp-super-cache and wp-minfy!
Thanks for your tips.
I have W3 total cache installed and it works for my sites. I will try Free CDN that you’ve introduced here and see how it goes.
Thanks for the list of plugin… i am sure will try it…
Thanks for sharing these plugins. I am using Wp Total cache, and is nice.
thanks for the plugin lists.
thanks for d list.
but i m confused between W3 Total Cache and WP Super Cache
please help me out of this….
thanks
Thanks for the plugins. W3 Total Cache works great for my site.
Wp super cache really work fine for my blob, thanks alot for sharing!!!