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.

Matthew Batchelder

SolidWP

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Justin Frydman

<p>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.</p>
<h4>How Solid Performance Increases Your Site Performance and Page Speed ✅</h4>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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:<br />
* WooCommerce<br />
* GiveWP</p>
<p>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.</p>
<h4>What is Caching and how does Solid Speed leverage it ❓</h4>
<p>There are several different types of caching</p>
<p>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 desktop or mobile (if enabled) versions of static HTML, CSS, and JS files fast and simply.</p>
<h4>How Page Caching Benefits Your Website Performance 🚀</h4>
<p>As soon as you activate Solid Performance, your site will get an immediate boost. You’ll see benefits like these:<br />
🚀 Improved site performance (content delivery speed)<br />
🚀 Reduced drag on server load<br />
🚀 Measurable, quantifiable stats: lower bounce rates and higher conversion rates</p>
<p>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.</p>


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.

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