Wp-minify + Super Cache OR Wp-minify +W3 Total Cache

As your WordPress website traffic increases you will eventually need to host your website on a faster server. This happened to me but instead of upgrading to a dedicated server or paying more for more resources to keep my website online to handle the traffic.

I went to try out a few caching plugins to speed up the page load time. This helped me save a lot of money in the long run because it’s all free.

WordPress Cache Plugins: Wp-minify + Super Cache

I first install Wp-minify and Super Cache together.

Wp-minify combine all your JS and CSS files into one JS file and one CSS file and optimize the codes inside the files. Instead of multiple JS files and multiple CSS files, wp-minify automatically combine all the JS and CSS files into a single JS file and CSS file. This help improve your page load.

Then I install Super Cache, this plugin automatically generate dynamic pages (PHP scripts) into static HTML pages. This also help speed up your page load time.

WordPress Cache Plugins: Wp-minify +W3 Total Cache

I deactivate Super cache and install W3 Total Cache, which is another plugin similar to Super Cache. W3 Total Cache also generate static HTML pages, but for some reasons it seem to load my pages even slower.

At the end I went with Wp-minify + Super Cache and you can see it in use on this site. I been using them for the past year and never had any problems.

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