What is GZIP and why your WordPress website needs it?

How to enable GZIP compression for your WordPress website with WPCacheOn
How to enable GZIP compression for your WordPress website with WPCacheOn

If you would like to achieve fast loading time for your WordPress site, crucial thing is to decrease the size of your pages. This could be the difference between website that loads in 1 second and one that feels like it is dragging. Enabling GZIP compression will help reducing the size of your webpage, which usually significantly reduce the amount of time to download the resources (CSS, JS, images and etc.), reduce data usage (bandwidth) for the client, improve the time to first render of your website page and improve the user experience.

All modern browsers support GZIP and automatically look for GZIP compression for all HTTP requests. Today we will share with you how to check and enable GZIP compression on your web server and your website.

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WordPress 5.4 “Adderley”

WordPress 5.4 Adderley

New release

On 31st of March 2020, we are happy to meet the new version of WordPress, which is WordPress 5.4! According to the WordPress 5.4 Field Guide this is an update more oriented to the developers, less to the end users, accessibility and the privacy. So WordPress plugins and themes developers, prepare your software! We are also happy to announce that the new version of WPCacheOn 2.0 is completely compatible with WordPress 5.4 as well as with PHP 7.4!

Changes and new things

We always cherished the users, so we will start reviewing the end user improvements and go through the dev changes in WordPress 5.4.

Read more information about the new features in WordPress 5.4

Cache and PreCache in WordPress

Cache with WordPress and WPCache
Cache, WordPress and WPCacheOn PreCache

What is cache? How does the cache work? How cache will speed up my website? What is a PreCache and why it is better than regular cache? In this guide we cover all of these questions. You will also understand why you need cache for your WordPress website and what is the WPCacheOn PreCache new feature.

What is cache?

In the computer world cache can be a hardware or software type. That cache stores data so that future requests for that data can be served faster. As we create WordPress cache plugin we will review the software cache type.

How does the cache work? How cache will speed up my website?

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