Konstantin Kovshenin

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).
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.
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.

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.

ShortPixel

<h3>🚀 The Ultimate Caching and Speed Improvement Plugin for WordPress</h3>
Have you ever wished your website scored 90+ on Google PageSpeed Insights, GTMetrix and other website performance analysis tools? 
And achieve that without the need to pay expensive fees to consultants or learn a lot of advanced technical stuff?
⚡ <a href="https://fastpixel.io/?utm_source=wp-repository&utm_medium=link" rel="nofollow ugc">FastPixel</a> automatically integrates all the latest technical enhancements, such as Page Caching, HTML/CSS/JS minification, DNS prefetching and preloading, Critical CSS, ShortPixel’s <a href="https://shortpixel.com/blog/introducing-smartcompress/?/?utm_source=wp-repository&utm_medium=link" rel="nofollow ugc">Smart Image Optimization</a>, adaptive images, background image scaling and optimization, HTTP/2 support, fonts loading optimization, caching, a global CDN, and Core Web Vitals, within an easy-to-use, 1-minute-setup interface.
<iframe loading="lazy" class="youtube-player" width="750" height="422" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/6UbWASU8RNw?version=3&rel=1&showsearch=0&showinfo=1&iv_load_policy=1&fs=1&hl=en-US&autohide=2&wmode=transparent" allowfullscreen="true" style="border:0;" sandbox="allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox"></iframe>
<h3>🎬 Ready for a Quick TEST of our Speed Optimization Tool?</h3>
There is no need to install our plugin to run a test. 
You can test FastPixel live on a <a href="https://tastewp.com/template/FastPixel" rel="nofollow ugc">sandbox website at TasteWP</a> or you can quickly assess how <a href="https://fastpixel.io/" rel="nofollow ugc">FastPixel</a> can optimize your website by conducting a test. Simply use <a href="https://test.fastpixel.io/" rel="nofollow ugc">this test page</a>, and we will apply all optimizations to a copy of your website. 
This way, you can easily evaluate the substantial speed improvements it can achieve using the most widely recognized website performance analysis tools.
<h3>🆕 New! Object Cache – Now Available!</h3>
You can now connect FastPixel to your Redis or Memcached server and let our plugin handle the rest. 
Object caching stores the results of database queries in memory, so WordPress skips repetitive work on every page load, meaning faster pages and less load on your server. No configuration needed. Just connect and go. 
– No need for additional plugins 
– Tuned for WooCommerce compatibility 
– Built for maximum performance with the same resources 
– Smart cache prefetching 
– Fully compliant with WordPress 
– Improved efficiency with simple settings and defaults 
– Encrypted communication
<h3>💡 Why choose FastPixel Caching plugin?</h3>
<ul>
<li>Website Performance Boost: Just activate the plugin and within seconds the optimized webpages will start to be served.</li>
<li>Lower the CPU/RAM Impact: Using the plugin will reduce the impact on the resources used by your website. All the CPU intensive processing is done in the cloud and resulting pages will generally be served from a cached version and the optimized images from the CDN.</li>
<li>Automated Core Web Vitals Optimization: FastPixel takes care of all technical aspects automatically.</li>
<li>Smart Cache Warmup/Update: The cache warmup and update are taken care of automatically in a smart way. Pages are cached as they are visited and also updated if you update the content.</li>
<li>Critical CSS: CCSS is automatically generated for each page for lightning-fast page loads.</li>
<li>CSS/JS Processing: CSS/JS files are combined and also minified and compressed before they are served from our CDN.</li>
<li>HTML Optimization: A single, highly optimized HTML file is generated, adaptively serving the ideal webpage based on the visitor’s viewport or device (e.g., mobile, tablet, laptop).</li>
<li>DNS Preconnects: Accelerates resource fetching, reduces the access time to external resources.</li>
<li>Font Processing: All the techniques to accelerate the processing and delivery of fonts are employed, e.g. font subsetting, font loading control, font compression, font embedding (lower CLS result).</li>
<li>Image Resizing & Optimization: Images are automatically resized to fit their placeholders, optimized, and delivered through the ShortPixel CDN.</li>
<li>Automatic Next-Gen Images Delivery: Based on the visitor’s browser capabilities, original JPG, PNG, or GIF images are converted to and served as WebP or AVIF when supported. For browsers without support, the original format is provided.</li>
</ul>
<h3>🌟 Happy users that use our plugin</h3>
If you’re satisfied with the test, just search for “FastPixel” in your WordPress Dashboard > Plugins, install the plugin and see for yourself how much faster your site becomes.
<blockquote>
Testimonials: 
 ★★★★★ It’s as fast as it says in the title! <a href="https://wordpress.org/support/topic/its-as-fast-as-it-says-in-the-title/" rel="ugc">liquidsnake2021</a> 
 ★★★★★ I was a tester and now I`m a happy user <a href="https://wordpress.org/support/topic/i-have-been-tester-and-now-happy-user/" rel="ugc">jppl</a> 
 ★★★★★ This plugin’s fast and easy to set up—I barely have to configure anything <a href="https://wordpress.org/support/topic/this-plugin-works-as-described/" rel="ugc">fajrisp</a> 
 ★★★★★ Works really well! <a href="https://wordpress.org/support/topic/works-really-well-264/" rel="ugc">touto</a> 
 ★★★★★ One of the best tools! <a href="https://wordpress.org/support/topic/one-of-the-best-tools-for-that/" rel="ugc">torsten3d</a> 
 ★★★★★ Super easy to install and worked out of the box <a href="https://wordpress.org/support/topic/well-this-was-easy-moving-from-wp-rocket/" rel="ugc">diffler</a> 
 <a href="https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/fastpixel-website-accelerator/reviews/?filter=5" rel="ugc">more testimonials</a>
</blockquote>
<h3>📩 Additional questions</h3>
If you have more questions, technical or otherwise, please refer to our FAQ section below, our <a href="https://fastpixel.io/docs/" rel="nofollow ugc">docs</a> or <a href="https://fastpixel.io/#contact" rel="nofollow ugc">contact us</a>. 
We typically respond within 15 minutes.
<h3>Hooks</h3>
FastPixel provides WordPress action hooks that allow developers to programmatically trigger cache purges and react to cache events. This is useful when integrating FastPixel with custom plugins, WooCommerce, ACF, or any workflow that modifies content outside the standard WordPress editor.
Example hooks: 
do_action(‘fastpixel/purge/all’); – Purges the entire site cache. 
do_action(‘fastpixel/purge/single’, [‘id’ => 123]); – Purges the cache for a single post, page, or taxonomy term. 
do_action(‘fastpixel/purge/url’, ‘https://example.com/my-landing-page/’); – Purges the cache for a specific URL.
For a detailed documentation about the hooks, please see this page: https://fastpixel.io/docs/fastpixel-hooks/

FastPixel Cache – Optimize Page Speed: Compress Images, Minify, Clean Database & CDN

Optimize Core Web Vitals and PageSpeed with advanced caching, image compression, lazy loading, critical CSS, and CDN – the ultimate performance tool.

Surge vs FastPixel Cache – Optimize Page Speed: Compress Images, Minify, Clean Database & CDN