Cached Websites: How To Use Litespeed Plugin To Speed Up Website

We all know that a cached website will speed up website loading speed.

For websites which are aged, it is fairly tough to perform website optimization because there are so many plugins and codes.

In today's post, we will talk about Litespeed plugin and how you can use it to cached websites.

But before that, let's take a quick dive into the meaning of a cached website.

Caching is the temporary storage of web documents such as HTML pages and images. Basically yourweb browser stores copies of web pages you've visited recently to reduce its bandwidth usage, server load, and lag.

A cached website loads faster and more effectively, therefore website visitors will be able to experience better (and more positive) experience.

Important: LiteSpeed Cache plugin only works with servers which are optimized with LiteSpeed technology. If you are unsure, speak to your web hosting support for more information.

Here are the steps you need to create a cached website using LiteSpeed Cache plugin for WordPress.

By default, this is what you will see when you toggle to the cache plugin settings.

You should turn On for all the following except Remove Comments.

You should turn On for all the following except Cache Mobile.

Cache Mobile should only be turned on if your website is not build on a responsive WordPress theme.

You should turn On for all.

For Auto Purge Rules, I decided to enable all (personal option). 

Here, I only disable Admin role for obvious reason.

Here's how it looks like.

You should turn On for all the following except Remove Comments.

You should turn On for all the following except Remove Google Fonts.

You should turn On for all the following except Preserve EXIF data.

If you have a CDN (apart from CloudFlare), then you should enable the first setting. If not, turn it off and enable CloudFlare CDN setting below the page. You need CloudFlare API for it to work properly.

You should turn On for all the following except Enable ESI.

Basically, ESI isn't really important as t affects logged-in users only. You can safely exclude this one on LiteSpeed cache plugin.

You should turn On for all settings.

It is safe to ignore this (only useful for website developers).

You may safely ignore this setting.

As a summary, having a cached website is all about improving the website loading speed.

A cached website will load fast and it will provide positive improvement in terms of ranking on Google search (as well as user experience).

Once LiteSpeed Cache plugin is setup properly, your website will loads faster and under 5 seconds. Here's the sample travel blog I'm currently working on.

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