Philip K Meadows

<p><strong>Fast AF caching! Optimize your website performance for the best page speed</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>Minifies HTML, JavaScript and CSS files</li>
<li>Defers loading of JavaScript</li>
<li>Compresses JPEG and PNG images</li>
<li>Generates static HTML pages</li>
</ul>
<p>Try it and see the results for yourself…</p>
<h4>Getting Started</h4>
<p>No complicated settings to deal with;</p>
<ol>
<li>Deactivate/delete any current caching or minification plugins</li>
<li>Install WP Roids</li>
<li>Activate WP Roids</li>
<li>Log out</li>
<li>Refresh your home page TWICE</li>
</ol>
<h4>“It broke my site, arrrrrrgh!”</h4>
<p><strong>Do the following steps, having your home page open in another browser. Or log out after each setting change if using the same browser. After each step refresh your home page TWICE</strong></p>
<ol>
<li>Switch your site’s theme to “Twenty Twenty” (or one of the other “Twenty…” Themes). If it then works, you have a moody theme</li>
<li>If still broken, go to the WordPress Plugins page and disable all Plugins (except WP Roids, obviously). If WP Roids starts to work, we have a plugin conflit</li>
<li>Reactivate each plugin one by one and refresh your home page each time time until it breaks</li>
<li>If <em>still</em> broken after the above step, go to the Settings tab and try disabling JS optimisation for the Plugin which triggered an error in the previous step – this is done in the second section “Plugins JavaScript”</li>
<li>Finally, if no improvement has occurred, go to the Settings tab and experiment with toggling options in the first section “Core Settings”</li>
<li>If you have the time, it would help greatly if you can <a href="https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/wp-roids" rel="ugc">log a support topic on the Support Page</a> and tell me as much as you can about what happened</li>
</ol>
<h4>How Fast Is It?</h4>
<p>In testing, WP Roids was FASTER than:</p>
<ul>
<li>WP Super Cache</li>
<li>W3 Total Cache</li>
<li>WP Fastest Cache</li>
<li>Comet Cache</li>
<li>Autoptimize</li>
<li>WP Speed of Light</li>
<li>…and many more!</li>
</ul>
<h4>Where Can I Check Site Speed?</h4>
<p>Either of these two sites is good:</p>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://tools.pingdom.com" rel="nofollow ugc">Pingdom</a></li>
<li><a href="https://gtmetrix.com" rel="nofollow ugc">GTmetrix</a></li>
</ul>
<h4>Software Requirements</h4>
<p>In addition to the <a href="https://wordpress.org/about/requirements/" rel="ugc">WordPress Requirements</a>, WP Roids requires the following:</p>
<ul>
<li>
<p><strong><code>.htaccess</code> file to be writable</strong></p>
<p>some security plugins disable this, so just turn this protection off for a minute during install/activation</p>
</li>
<li>
<p><strong>PHP version greater than 5.6.0</strong></p>
<p>It WILL throw errors on activation if not! No damage should occur though</p>
</li>
<li>
<p><strong>PHP cURL extension enabled</strong></p>
<p>Usually is by default on most decent hosts</p>
</li>
</ul>
<h3>License</h3>
<p>Copyright: © 2019-Present <a href="https://philmeadows.com" rel="nofollow ugc">Philip K. Meadows</a> (coded in Great Britain)</p>
<p>Released under the terms of the <a href="https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0-standalone.html" rel="nofollow ugc">GNU General Public License</a></p>
<h4>Credits / Additional Acknowledgments</h4>
<ul>
<li>Software designed for WordPress
<ul>
<li>GPL License <a href="https://codex.wordpress.org/GPL" rel="nofollow ugc">https://codex.wordpress.org/GPL</a></li>
<li>WordPress <a href="https://wordpress.org" rel="ugc">https://wordpress.org</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>Photograph of Lance Armstrong
<ul>
<li>Source: <a href="http://newsactivist.com/en/articles/604-103-lf/lance-armstrong-cheater-0" rel="nofollow ugc">http://newsactivist.com/en/articles/604-103-lf/lance-armstrong-cheater-0</a></li>
<li>Used without permission, but “Fair Use” for the purposes of caricature, parody and satire</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>


WP Roids

The fastest caching plugin for WordPress. FASTER than WP Super Cache, W3 Total Cache, WP Fastest Cache and many more...

Aleksandr Guidrevitch

<p>WP Meteor offers an original way to further optimize your website speed.<br />
With this plugin you can <strong>increase your PageSpeed score</strong> by up to 5x.<br />
The plugin is 100% free, it is compatible and works well with most popular caching plugins like:<br />
* Autoptimize<br />
* WP Rocket<br />
* WP Total Cache<br />
* WP Super Cache<br />
* Phastpress<br />
* LiteSpeed<br />
* Hummingbird<br />
* WP Fastest Cache<br />
* SiteGround Optimizer</p>
<p>It also works well with website builders like Elementor or with image optimizers like ShortPixel.</p>
<p>The few known incompatibilities are listed in the FAQ.</p>
<h4>BENEFITS</h4>
<p>WP Meteor can improve your <a href="https://pagespeed.web.dev/" rel="nofollow ugc">Pagespeed</a> results and the actual loading time of your website by <strong>up to 5x</strong>! After changing performance settings, use <a href="https://watchero.io/" rel="nofollow ugc">Watchero</a> to capture and compare pages before and after optimization.<br />
And since the plugin is designed to leave no traces on your hard drive or database when deactivated and removed, <strong>there is no risk for you</strong>.</p>
<h4>HOW IT WORKS</h4>
<p>If the user does not interact with the page immediately, WP Meteor defers loading and firing scripts until the page is rendered, which increases the pagespeed metric, on average, by <strong>2-5x</strong>.</p>
<p>This delay in loading scripts greatly improves perceived load times for your visitors. It also significantly improves the following <strong>important SEO metrics</strong>:</p>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://pagespeed.web.dev/" rel="nofollow ugc">Page Speed</a></li>
<li><a href="https://web.dev/lcp/" rel="nofollow ugc">Largest Contentful Paint (LCP)</a></li>
<li><a href="https://web.dev/tti/" rel="nofollow ugc">Time To Interactive (TTI)</a></li>
<li><a href="https://web.dev/tbt/" rel="nofollow ugc">Total Blocking Time (TBT)</a></li>
</ul>
<h3>VERIFY SITE CHANGES AFTER OPTIMIZATION</h3>
<p>Performance changes, WordPress core updates, and plugin or theme updates can affect pages you do not manually check. <a href="https://watchero.io/" rel="nofollow ugc">Watchero</a> helps capture and compare screenshots across entire sites, so agencies, freelancers, and managed hosting providers can spot visual breakages before customers do.</p>


WP Meteor Website Speed Optimization Addon

Let me cut to the chase. WP Meteror is an awesome plugin that actually worked for me and rocketed my score up according to Google Page Speed metrics.
Furthermore, It is fully compatible with Autoptimize and WP Super Cache, two great plugins which I persistently consider among “must-haves.” 
Being always frustrated with GPS scores, I was always looking for a way to minimize the damn “main thread work,” get rid of “render-blocking resources” and improve LCP, TTI and TBT (Ironically, Google still regards its own reCAPTCHA, Tag Manager, etc. as render-blocking or unused JavaScript!)
The optimization of JS files and applying Defer attribute to scripts, among many others, just led to a slight improvement in my score, no way comparable with that of WP Meteor.
Last but not least, using WP Meteor had some downsides on my website as Alex had clearly explained. But there is an inbuilt exclusion session which helped me exclude troublesome scripts easily.
In a nutshell, this plugin kills it on Page Speed and deserves 10 out of 5 stars!


 



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2x-5x improvement in your Page Speed score. A completely new way of optimizing your page speed.

WP Roids vs WP Meteor Website Speed Optimization Addon