Have you noticed that this site is running a bit faster than it used to? I hope you have. The reason is that I’ve changed caching plugins. I was using a plugin called W3 Total Cache. For some reason — and I am willing to admit that it could have been cockpit error — I was never able to get much of a speed increase with it.
Last week, I abandoned W3 Total Cache, and bought a license for WP Rocket. Initial setup was pretty easy, except for one thing: the plugin wouldn’t work with my http://site/=+1234 permalinks. I changed them to the present structure, which you can see in your browser URL window as you read this post, and WordPress automatically created a set of redirects so that all the references to the old page structure that were out there on the web wouldn’t break. It does take a little extra time to perform the redirection, but over time there will be less and less of that, and more and more of references to the new permalink structure.
How’d it work out?
I use a web site performance checking service, and here’s a view of the response time over a 24-hour period for blog.kasson.com:
It’s pretty easy to see where I made the change, isn’t it?
Were there any costs to the caching?
The process count went up a bit:
There wasn’t much of an imact on CPU load:
No particular memory effect (the cache is stored on disk):
Pretty much the same story with the kasson.com web site:
So far, so good.
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