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.

JoomUnited

<p>WP Speed of Light is a WordPress speedup plugin and load time testing. Cache, Gzip, minify, group, Lazy Loading, CDN</p>
<h3>IMPORTANT NOTE ABOUT THIS PLUGIN:</h3>
<p>After careful consideration, we’ve decided to merge the free versions of WP Meta SEO, WP Speed of Light, and WP Latest Posts into their respective premium versions. This consolidation will allow us to focus our resources on developing more robust, feature-rich extensions. We do offer some easy migration and prices for free users though.</p>
<h4>Read the full article: <a href="https://www.joomunited.com/news/important-announcement-evolving-our-wordpress-extensions-for-better-service-and-performance" title="Important announcement: Evolving our extensions for better service and performance" rel="nofollow ugc">Blog post announcement</a>.</h4>
<p>WordPress does not have a system for speed optimization by default. That’s why you need a powerful plugin that speed up WordPress with technical and advanced features, yet accessible to everyone.<br />
WP Speed of Light starts with an advanced static cache, plus, you got a file minification and group tools, a database cleanup system, a .htaccess optimization, an auto-cache cleaner and a full CDN integration.</p>
<p>When it comes to performance loading time, it requires some test to identify which plugin, theme, page may require more attention.<br />
WP Speed of Light also includes a speed loading test and compare, and a database queries test. To go one step beyond with your WordPress speed, a PRO ADDON upgrade (optional) with custom support is available.</p>
<p><strong><a href="https://www.joomunited.com/wordpress-products/wp-speed-of-light" rel="friend nofollow ugc">More information and feature details here!</a></strong></p>
<h4>Video demo:</h4>
<div class="embed-vimeo" style="text-align: center;"><iframe loading="lazy" src="https://player.vimeo.com/video/186057806" width="750" height="422" frameborder="0" webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen allowfullscreen></iframe></div>
<h3>WP Speed of Light, speed optimization plugin features</h3>
<ul>
<li>Generate full static cache</li>
<li>Selective or global cache for Desktop, Tablet, and Mobile</li>
<li>Check for GZIP compression activation</li>
<li>Remove Query strings: better score on Pingdom, Gtmetrix, Google Page Speed…</li>
<li>Minify resources (files): HTML, CSS, JS in a smart way to avoid conflicts</li>
<li>Group resources (files): CSS, JS in a smart way to avoid conflicts</li>
<li>Exclude files from group or minify</li>
<li>Add Expire Headers (browser cache)</li>
<li>Database optimization, clean: post revision, auto-draft content, trashed content, spam comments, trackbacks and pingbacks, transients options</li>
<li>CDN integration: load any CDN content</li>
<li>Automatic clean cache on interval and cache cleaner button</li>
<li>Automatic clean cache on content saving</li>
<li>Option to disable the WordPress REST API</li>
<li>Option to disable the WordPress RSS feeds</li>
<li>Cache external resources such as scripts served from Google (served locally)</li>
<li>WooCommerce dedicated integration</li>
<li>WordPress Multisite compatible</li>
<li>Page builders compatibility: ACF, DIVI Builder, Beaver Builder, Site Origine, Themify builder, Live Composer, Elementor…</li>
<li>Developer friendly using Hooks and Filters</li>
<li>Gutenberg auto-cache cleanup on save</li>
</ul>
<h3>PRO Addon plugin (optional): additional speed optimization</h3>
<blockquote>
<ul>
<li>Image compression</li>
<li>Image lazy loading with page exclusion</li>
<li>Local Font and Google Font Group</li>
<li>Visual File Exclusion from Group & Minification</li>
<li>Cache Pre-Loading</li>
<li>DNS Prefetching</li>
<li>Cleanup CDN data: Cloudflare, KeyCDN, MaxCDN, Varnish, Siteground cache</li>
<li>Database Automatic Cleanup</li>
<li>Possibility to disable Emojis</li>
<li>Possibility to remove Gravatar</li>
<li>Possibility to load scripts in footer</li>
<li>Disable Cache per WordPress User Role</li>
<li>Page Caching Exclusion Using PHP Rules</li>
<li>Custom support for configuration</li>
</ul>
</blockquote>
<h3>WP Speed of Light speed optimization testing:</h3>
<ul>
<li>Page loading time, first load</li>
<li>Page loading time, second load</li>
<li>First byte time</li>
<li>Time to start rendering</li>
<li>Element served from cache in %</li>
<li>Elements compressed with Gzip in %</li>
<li>Percent on compressed images</li>
</ul>
<p>Get a comfortable navigation experience, a better search engine rank with a radical speed optimization</p>
<p>Main plugins from JoomUnited:</p>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://www.joomunited.com/wordpress-products/wp-media-folder" rel="friend nofollow ugc">WP Media Folder:</a>  Supercharge your media library with folders</li>
<li><a href="https://www.joomunited.com/wordpress-products/wp-file-download" rel="friend nofollow ugc">WP File Download: </a>  Best in class file and document manager</li>
<li><a href="https://www.joomunited.com/wordpress-products/wp-meta-seo" rel="friend nofollow ugc">WP Meta SEO: </a>  Search Engine Optimization made easy</li>
<li><a href="https://www.joomunited.com/wordpress-products/wp-latest-posts" rel="friend nofollow ugc">WP Latest Posts: </a>  Super flexible latest posts and content</li>
<li><a href="https://www.joomunited.com/wordpress-products/wp-table-manager" rel="friend nofollow ugc"> WP Table Manager: </a>  Create and manage tables with style</li>
</ul>
<h4>Support</h4>
<p>Before leaving a review >> Feel free to ask questions here in the support section, we reply to every question!<br />
A dedicated private ticket support is also available on the website.</p>
<ul>
<li>
<p>Product page on the <a href="https://www.joomunited.com/wordpress-products/wp-speed-of-light" rel="friend nofollow ugc">**[JoomUnited website]</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Detailed documentation <a href="https://www.joomunited.com/support/wordpress-plugins-documentation?extension=wp-speed-of-light" rel="friend nofollow ugc">**[JoomUnited documentation section]</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
<h3>Requirements</h3>
<p>PHP 5.6+, PHP 7.x recommended for better performance, WordPress 5.0+</p>


WP Speed of Light

Nice one

What can I say, I tried all the big name 'speeder uppers' but this one wins hands down ... thanks to the developers.

Tried The Biggies This Is The Best

WP Speed of Light is a WordPress speedup plugin and load time testing. Cache, Gzip, minify, group, Lazy Loading, CDN

Surge vs WP Speed of Light