Konstantin Kovshenin

<p>Surge generates and serves static HTML files for your WordPress site, causing quicker requests, faster load times and a shorter time to first byte (TTFB).</p>
<p>Surge does not require configuration, and has no options. It works out of the box on any well-configured hosting platform. Cached files are stored on disk, and automatically invalidated when your site is updated.</p>
<p>In various load tests, Surge has shown to easily handle 1000-2500 requests per second at 100 concurrent, on a small single-core server with only 1 GB of RAM. That’s over 70 times faster than a stock WordPress install.</p>


Surge

This plugin does one thing: generate and serve static HTML files. And it does that one thing perfectly.

Focused

It really helps to improve speed A LOT without any hassle with options.

Great job!

I just installed Surge in all my sites. After cancelling the payment option I was using, I was looking for a simple and easy to install option. And Surge is exactly this. Forget about complex configuration options (where you're at risk of crashing your site, talking from my own experience!), just install and forget!. 

I don't know if it's really the fastest option if you're an optimization expert that know exactly what to touch but it's the fastest option for me, no doubt about it

Hassle-free option - Works out-of-the-box


This plugin works! Install, activate, and check WP_CACHE value and boom - your site is fast!One nice feature that is happening under the hood is caching of specific REST API requests. That makes, for example, dynamic parts of the site with javascript filtering blazingly fast.


Just works!


Over the years, I've looked at all the top caching plugins, and never found one that I liked. They were either too complex, too finicky, or tried to do too many things.



Surge just works, and it works great.



Update: I ran some basic performance testing of the same sample content with and without Surge activated.Surge increased my Requests per second by a factor of 21x and reduced my time per request by a factor of 25x.



Beyond that, Konstantin has been amazing as far as support goes for a free plugin. Besides addressing issues and requests, he's gone above-and-beyond at helping work through issues, to the point of looking at where we are using Surge and making additional configuration recommendations. If it were possible to give 6 stars, I would!


Finally a Caching Plugin I can get behind!

Surge is a very simple and fast page caching plugin for WordPress.

KeyCDN

<p>Cache Enabler is a simple, yet powerful WordPress caching plugin that is easy to use, needs minimal configuration, and best of all helps improve site performance for a faster load time. It creates static HTML files of frontend pages and stores them on the server’s disk. This allows the static HTML files to be delivered instead of generating pages on the fly, avoiding resource intensive backend processes from the WordPress core, plugins, and database.</p>
<h4>Features</h4>
<ul>
<li>Fast and efficient cache engine</li>
<li>Automatic smart cache clearing</li>
<li>Manual cache clearing</li>
<li>WP-CLI cache clearing</li>
<li>Cache expiry</li>
<li>WebP support (convert images to WebP with <a href="https://optimus.io" rel="nofollow ugc">Optimus</a>)</li>
<li>Mobile support</li>
<li>Brotli and Gzip pre-compression support</li>
<li>Minification of HTML excluding or including inline CSS and JavaScript</li>
<li>Real-time cache size display in the WordPress dashboard</li>
<li>Custom post type support</li>
<li><code>304 Not Modified</code> support</li>
<li>Works perfectly with <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/autoptimize/" rel="ugc">Autoptimize</a></li>
</ul>
<h4>How does the caching work?</h4>
<p>Cache Enabler captures page contents and saves it as a static HTML file on the server’s disk. The static HTML file created can be one of several possible cache versions depending on the plugin settings and HTTP request. Accepted static HTML files are then delivered without any database queries or on the fly compression, allowing for a quicker page load.</p>
<h4>Documentation</h4>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://www.keycdn.com/support/wordpress-cache-enabler-plugin#installation" rel="nofollow ugc">Installation</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.keycdn.com/support/wordpress-cache-enabler-plugin#settings" rel="nofollow ugc">Settings</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.keycdn.com/support/wordpress-cache-enabler-plugin#hooks" rel="nofollow ugc">Hooks</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.keycdn.com/support/wordpress-cache-enabler-plugin#wp-cli" rel="nofollow ugc">WP-CLI</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.keycdn.com/support/wordpress-cache-enabler-plugin#advanced-configuration" rel="nofollow ugc">Advanced configuration</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.keycdn.com/support/wordpress-cache-enabler-plugin#faq" rel="nofollow ugc">FAQ</a></li>
</ul>
<h4>Want to help?</h4>
<ul>
<li>Want to file a bug, contribute some code, or improve translations? Excellent! Check out our <a href="https://github.com/keycdn/cache-enabler/issues" rel="nofollow ugc">GitHub issues</a> or <a href="https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/cache-enabler/" rel="nofollow ugc">translations</a>.</li>
</ul>
<h4>Maintainer</h4>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://www.keycdn.com" rel="nofollow ugc">KeyCDN</a></li>
</ul>


Cache Enabler

The plugin just works. No configuration necessary.

When I had a problem the support team helped super fast and now all my pages are being cached.

Highly recommend this plugin!

Great plugin - fantastic support!

A lightweight caching plugin for WordPress that makes your website faster by generating static HTML files.

Surge vs Cache Enabler