Darko G.

MegaOptim

Rapid Cache is a fork of Comet Cache that focuses on new features, stability and simplicity.
If you care about the speed of your site, Rapid Cache is one of those plugins that you absolutely MUST have installed! 🤓
Rapid Cache takes a real-time snapshot (building a cache) of every Page, Post, Category, Link, etc. These snapshots are then stored (cached) intuitively, so they can be referenced later, in order to save all of that processing time that has been dragging your site down and costing you money.
The plugin uses configuration options that you select from the options panel. See: Rapid Cache -› Options in your Dashboard. Once a file has been cached, Rapid Cache uses advanced techniques that allow it to recognize when it should and should not serve a cached version of the file.
By default, Rapid Cache does not serve cached pages to users who are logged in, or to users who have left comments recently. Rapid Cache also excludes administrative pages, login pages, POST/PUT/DELETE/GET(w/ query string) requests and/or CLI processes.
If you need more details, check our <a href="https://github.com/megaoptim/rapid-cache/wiki/" rel="nofollow ugc">Wiki</a>
<h4>Features</h4>
<ul>
<li>SIMPLE and well-documented (just enable and you’re all set).</li>
<li>Options to control the automatic cache clearing behavior for Home and Posts Page, Author Page, Category, Tag, and Custom Term Archives, Custom Post Type Archives, RSS/RDF/ATOM Feeds, and XML Sitemaps.</li>
<li>URI exclusion patterns (now supporting wildcards too).</li>
<li>User-Agent exclusion patterns (now supporting wildcards too).</li>
<li>HTTP referrer exclusion patterns (now supporting wildcards too).</li>
<li>The ability to set an automatic expiration time for cache files.</li>
<li>Client-Side Caching (to allow double-caching in the client browser).</li>
<li>Caching for 404 requests to reduce the impact of those on the server.</li>
<li>Feed Caching (RSS, RDF, and Atom Feed caching).</li>
<li>Cache or ignore URLs that contain query strings (GET Requests).</li>
<li>Apache Optimizations to enable GZIP Compression.</li>
<li>WP-CLI Compatibility.</li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/megaoptim/rapid-cache/wiki/Developer-Hooks" rel="nofollow ugc">Actions/filters</a> and <a href="https://github.com/megaoptim/rapid-cache/wiki/Clearing-the-Cache-Dynamically" rel="nofollow ugc">PHP API</a> for developers</li>
</ul>
<h4>Requirements</h4>
In addition to the <a href="https://wordpress.org/about/requirements/" rel="ugc">WordPress Requirements</a>, Rapid Cache requires the following minimum versions:
<ul>
<li>At least PHP 5.4 (we recommend PHP 7.2+)</li>
<li>Web server (Apache, NGINX, Litespeed, other)</li>
</ul>
<h4>License</h4>
Copyright © 2020 <a href="https://megaoptim.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">MegaOptim</a> 
Copyright © 2016 WebSharks, Inc (coded in the USA)
Released under the terms of the <a href="http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.html" rel="nofollow ugc">GNU General Public License</a>.

Rapid Cache

Disclaimer: I have a lifetime licence of Comet Cache, which actually when I bought the license it was called Zen Cache, or the name before that... So Comet Cache Pro out of the box, with very little fiddling makes my sites running on crappy Godaddy shared hosting from loading in 2-3 seconds time, to load almost instantly, to the point that people ask me if I'm using a VPS or a dedicated server... The only drawback that it has (and I tried this just once many years ago), the caching did not work on my WAMP localserver running on a Win. 7 Pro machine.

After downloading and installing Rapid Cache on the same localhost today, I was pleasantly surprised that it works on my localserver, not that I need to have such a plugin in this environment, but it will be good for testing, benchmarking, etc... Before this plugin was activated, my pageloads were 0.6 - 0.7 seconds, with a visible tiny "pause" between page loads. Once I activated and turned the caching on in this plugin, and without making ANY configuration changes, the page loads are almost instantaneous, with no more visible lagging. 

I did not do any live testing on a really slow server yet, but if the results are similar to my Comet Cache Pro plugin, this plugin would speed up any site that normally would load under 2-3 seconds to almost no lag time... hence my 5 star rating.

I don't really need this plugin, but it's REALLY nice to have an excellent replacement in case Comet Cache Pro goes away, or stops working for one reason or another...

The only thing missing from this plugin that exists in the Comet Cache plugin (that I can see right away), is the ability to import/export the settings. In my case, because I don't mess with too many of the settings, it's not the end of the world. In the past I have played with other cache plugin, that one will need a doctorate degree and 2 weeks of playing around just to make it sort of work - not the case here...

This is my honest review of the Rapid Cache plugin after using it for about 10 minutes or so !

Thank you.   

Good out of the box.

Rapid Cache is advanced WordPress caching plugin inspired by simplicity that will make your site blazing fast!

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Boosting performance and securing your WordPress site has never been easier with the A2 Optimized WP plugin from <a href="https://www.a2hosting.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">A2 Hosting</a>. Get customized desktop and mobile performance scores for your site, including:
<ul>
<li>Server speed (Time to First Byte)</li>
<li>Page load speed (Largest Contentful Paint)</li>
<li>User perception (First Contentful Paint)</li>
<li>Visual stability (Cumulative Layout Shift)</li>
<li>Website browser speed (First Input Delay)</li>
</ul>
Using these scores, A2 Optimized WP generates specific, personalized recommendations for improving your site:
<ul>
<li>Performance</li>
<li>Security</li>
<li>Best practices compliance</li>
</ul>
With just a few clicks you’ll give your WordPress site the boost it needs with stable, industry-proven optimizations and improvements.
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<h4>Performance optimizations</h4>
Our plugin is optimized to work best in the A2 Hosting environment, so items marked with an asterisk (*) are only available for sites hosted at A2 Hosting. If you are not an A2 Hosting customer, <a href="https://www.a2hosting.com" rel="nofollow ugc">join today</a>!
Page caching 
* Allows site visitors to save copies of your web pages on their device or browser. When they return to your website in the future, your site files load faster. 
* This optimization improves Time to First Byte (TTFB) and reduces bandwidth usage.
Gzip compression 
* Turns on Gzip compression to make text files smaller. 
* This optimization improves Time to First Byte (TTFB) and reduces bandwidth usage.
Redis object caching (*) 
* Stores commonly used elements such as menus, widgets, and database sets in memory. 
* This optimization improves Time to First Byte (TTFB).
Minify HTML pages 
* Removes extra spaces, tabs, comments, and line breaks from HTML pages. 
* This optimization improves First Contentful Paint (FCP) and First Input Delay (FID).
Automatic database optimizations 
* Periodically cleans MySQL databases of expired transients (a type of cached data used in WordPress) as well as trashed and spam comments. Also optimizes database tables. 
* This optimization improves Time to First Byte (TTFB) for uncached pages.
Compress images on upload (*) 
* Automatically compresses images when they are uploaded to your site. 
* This optimization improves First Contentful Paint (FCP), Largest Contentful Paint (LCP), and First Input Delay (FID).
Turbo Web Hosting (*) 
*Takes advantage of A2 Hosting’s Turbo Web Hosting platform to provide faster serving of static files, pre-compiled .htaccess files for improved performance, PHP opcode caching, and more. 
*This optimization can improve multiple benchmarks.
Use system cron instead of WordPress cron (*) 
* Replaces the WordPress virtual “cron job” with a genuine, system-defined cron job. 
* This optimization reduces the load on WordPress and ensures scheduled tasks run at precise, correct intervals.
Minify inline CSS and JavaScript 
* Removes extra spaces, tabs, comments, and line breaks from inline CSS and JavaScript. 
* This optimization improves First Contentful Paint (FCP) and First Input Delay (FID).
Disable WooCommerce AJAX Cart Fragments 
* Disables WooCommerce AJAX Cart Fragments on your homepage and enables the “redirect to cart page” option. 
* This optimization improves WooCommerce performance.
<h4>Security optimizations</h4>
Our plugin is optimized to work best in the A2 Hosting environment, so items marked with an asterisk (*) are only available for sites hosted at A2 Hosting. If you are not an A2 Hosting customer, <a href="https://www.a2hosting.com" rel="nofollow ugc">join today</a>!
Lock editing of plugins and themes from wp-admin 
* Prevents misuse of built-in editing capabilities for the WordPress admin.
Change login URL (*) 
* Changes the login page URL from the default wp-login.php to a random URL. 
* Helps prevent bots from brute-force attacking your login page.
Add CAPTCHA for comments and login (*) 
* Adds a CAPTCHA to comment forms and login pages to deter bots from posting spam comments and running brute-force attacks..
Block unauthorized XML-RPC requests 
* Rejects XML-RPC requests except for whitelisted services, such as Jetpack.
Deny direct access to configuration files 
* Displays a “403 Forbidden” error when visitors or bots try to access WordPress configuration files.
<h4>Best practices recommendations</h4>
Regenerate wp-config salts 
* Generates new values for wp-config.php salts and security keys for increased security.
Recent post limit 
*Checks the number of recent posts per page, which should be less than 15 for most sites.
RSS post limit 
* Checks the number of posts in RSS feeds, which should be less than 20 for most sites.
Recent posts showing on home page 
* Checks whether the home page displays recent posts, and offers to use a static page instead for faster performance.
Permalink structure 
* Checks that the permalink structure is configured to fully optimize page caching and get additional SEO benefits.
Unused themes 
* Checks if there are any non-default, unused themes that should be deleted.
Inactive plugins 
* Checks if there are any inactive plugins that should be deleted.
Hosted with A2 Hosting 
* Checks if your site is hosted with <a href="https://www.a2hosting.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">A2 Hosting</a> for faster page load times and more optimizations.

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