Matthew Batchelder

SolidWP

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Justin Frydman

Site speed and performance optimization don’t have to be a complex task. With Solid Performance, simply install and activate, and the plugin will incrementally create static versions of each URL of your website for an instant performance boost.
<h4>How Solid Performance Increases Your Site Performance and Page Speed ✅</h4>
You’re busy, and you need to spend time building your website. In order to build well you need a solid foundation. Installing Solid Performance lets you optimize your site performance right away and start building sooner and faster without having to spend time configuring dozens of options.
A solid caching solution should not cause breakage with your favorite plugins. Solid Performance comes out of the box with smart plugin exception rules for pages that have dynamic content created by these plugins: 
* WooCommerce 
* GiveWP
With these smart defaults and page caching in place automatically, you can focus your time and energy on building and enhancing your website instead of struggling through dozens of caching settings.
<h4>What is Caching and how does Solid Speed leverage it ❓</h4>
There are several different types of caching
Solid Performance focuses exclusively on page caching, grabbing the HTML of your WordPress URLs and storing that in a secure directory. Then, when your visitors arrive at your site, the browser doesn’t need to run through PHP or hit your database again, it just serves up the static HTML, CSS, and JS files fast and simply.
<h4>How Page Caching Benefits Your Website Performance 🚀</h4>
As soon as you activate Solid Performance, your site will get an immediate boost. You’ll see benefits like these: 
🚀 Improved site performance (content delivery speed) 
🚀 Reduced drag on server load 
🚀 Measurable, quantifiable stats: lower bounce rates and higher conversion rates
When a site developer or manager is able to improve site performance for a client (for example), they are able to provide improved SEO results and meet a widely accepted expectation that well-run sites do not have slow download or content delivery times.

Solid Performance – Your No-Code Caching, Performance, & Page Speed Solution


Disclaimer: I do work for StellarWP. BUT, this plugin did speed up multiple sites I've installed it on, including my personal site devin.org



I suggest it for a "solid" page caching solution


Installed and it's like woah, fast fast fast

Solid Performance is a no-code solution for increasing the page performance of your WordPress website.

Freemius

Passionate Brains

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<h4>Advantages</h4>
1) Serves static assets with an efficient cache policy helps to leverage browser caching.
2) Reduces page loading time of website.
3) Improves user experience as page loads very quickly than before.
4) Decreases total data-size of page.
5) Larger band of predefined file types are covered so it will increase bandwidth of files which can have expiry headers.
6) You can have different expire time for cache base on type of resources.
7) Merge multiple CSS files into one helps reducing http requests and improving page load speed.
8) Async loading of processed CSS files.
9) Minify CSS files which reduce data transfer requirement hence increase page load speed.
10) Inline small footer CSS files which helps to improve page speed.
11) Escape admin users from minification to avoid page builders related issues.
12) Lazy loading support for images, iframes, and videos.
13) Widgets and shortcodes can also be lazy loaded.
14) Lazy loading fully supports responsive images for better performance across devices.
15) Custom placeholder images can be used during lazy loading.
16) Exclude critical elements from lazy loading to ensure essential visuals load immediately.
<h4>Pro Features</h4>
1) Ability to add expires headers to External Resources
2) Adding new file types for adding expires headers
3) Refresh cache periodically
4) Unset Entity Tags
5) HTTP(Gzip) compression
6) Prevent Specific files from caching
7) Removing version info from files
8) Inline google fonts helps to load page faster and reduce external http requests.
9) Merge multiple JS files into one helps reducing http requests and improving page load speed.
10) Minify JS files which reduce data transfer requirement hence increase page load speed.
11) Plugin offers Defer scripts option to speed up rendering process.
12) HTML minification helps to reduce overall data size of page.
13) Automatically convert images to optimized formats like WebP or AVIF for faster delivery without manual effort.
14) Smartly resize and serve images based on screen size and device type to minimize bandwidth and boost speed.
15) Support next-gen formats like WebP and AVIF for superior compression, smaller files, and sharper visuals.
16) Track image optimization stats, savings, and performance improvements directly from your WordPress dashboard.
17) Automatically deliver the perfect image size for every device, ensuring crisp visuals and smooth performance.
18) Optimize images without visible loss in clarity—maintaining pixel perfection while reducing file size.
19) Works out-of-the-box with WordPress and major themes or plugins, no setup hassles or coding required.
<h4>Documentation</h4>
For Plugin documentation, please refer our <a href="https://www.addexpiresheaders.com/documentation" rel="follow nofollow ugc">plugin website</a>.
<h4>Requirements</h4>
1) Make sure that the “mod_expires” module is enabled on your website hosting server.
2) It is necessary to have read/write permission of .htaccess file to plugin. If not then update file permissions accordingly.
3) check status page of plugin for more info.
<h3>Usage</h3>
To use this plugin do the following:
1) Firstly activate Plugin.
2) Go to plugin settings page.
3) Check Files types you want to have expires headers and also add respective expires days for mime type using input box and make sure you enable respective mime type, for which group of files you want to add expires headers.
4) Once you hit “submit” button all options you selected in settings page saved database of website and accordingly .htaccess file will updated and add expires headers for respective selected files.
5) For Minification check respective settings at Minification Tab of plugin settings page.
6) For Lazy Loading check respective settings at Lazy Loading Tab of plugin settings page.

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