Hi Yanis,

I know it’s been a while since you’ve asked this question. However, I just want to share my experience being a paid WP Rocket user. If you want to deploy WP Rocket make sure you can do all the testing properly with few people. When even we’ve activated the plugin the scores are good but we end up having some broken layouts especially for people who are not logged into the site.

Just keep that in mind!

Have you run your site through the speed testing tools to find out where the bottlenecks lie?

That’s good advice, Jeremiah! Thanks for sharing and glad that it worked well for you.

My sites got attacked concurrently that ended up putting huge stress on my server. I installed All-in-One WordPress Security plugin and disabled hotlinking and this helps significantly.

I also took advantage of File Minification and CDN and now my site is loading unbelievably fast (as compared to before).

Thank you.

Jeremiah

Hey Yanis, from everything I hear about WP Rocket, it is worth it’s money. Check out their return policy if you are on the fence. Aside from that, if you are having problems with speeding up your site, I recommend you run it through a speed testing tool like Gtmetrix or Pingdom. This can show you where the problem lies.

I’m still trying to improve the speed of my website, however, I’m having difficulty to do so, there are multiple free caching plugins that i tried but none of them gave me the result i wanted.

I have read in article of a website that seemed fast to me that they recommend and use “WP-rocket”

From what i found out, WP rocket isn’t free, so before purchasing it, i’m trying to seek your professional advice if it’s worth buying or not?

If i may ask what caching plugins are you using?

Thank you

Thanks for the tips, Rahul! Happy to hear you figured things out for yourself. I have only recently started looking into Webp, so this might make a valuable addition. I will not it down for a future post update. Thanks again!

Also, in the Image Optimization section, you could recommend users to serve images in webp format as almost all the browsers except Safari have now started to support the webp image format.

Thanks for the extra input!

Glad you got some stuff out of the post, Yasen. Thanks for the comment!

Hey Bram, thanks for the comment! Yes, few people realize the impact of images of page size and page loading speed. I once had a client post a 4,000px image on their site that they had shrunk down to 200px in the editor. It took ages to load. Good that you took steps in the opposite direction!

Thanks for the kind words, Rob!

Hey Mike, thanks for the detailed comment and your input. It is true that WordPress is carrying a lot of weight around with it and that the system itself can contribute to slow page loading speed. However, the reason why the CMS is so successful is because it enables everyday users and non-technical people to create their own web presences.

Sure, if you are a seasoned developer, you can easily put something together that performs better than WordPress. However, this kind of thing if beyond the capabilities of the majority of people, which is why they opt for a system like WordPress. Since that is the reality, in my opinion, it makes more sense to give them the tools to improve their system of choice rather than expecting them to rise up to the technical level of building something better.