WP Super Cache: Fast Loading WordPress Pages
As you may already know, WordPress blogging platform is built with PHP coding language and extracts data for building HTML pages from a MySQL database. The default WordPress installation does not ensure the maximum pages loading speed in case of your blog, especially when it have a high amount of content like images and JavaScript elements, as well as many activated plugins. When an user requests a web page, the number of functions executed on server side and client side implies processes which are resources consuming if certain tweaks are not performed. WP Super Cache plugin provides a good alternative to improve the overall performance of your WordPress blog by generating static HTML pages, therefore minimizing the number of database requests.
The static HTML files generated from the database will be served on the user browser, such that the resources intensive WordPress PHP scripts are no longer processed.
The WP Super Cache plugin is useful for websites having a high traffic. Besides the fact that the web pages will be loaded faster by browser from a cache, the chances for users to receive errors are also minimum.
The users who are logged in or left a comment in your blog will not see the cached pages, while 99% percent of the visitors will enjoy a faster navigation experience.
Before installing WP Super Cache, it is recommended to remove any other existing caching mechanism from your WordPress blog. WP Super Cache can be installed as any other WordPress plugin: upload the archive content in the Plugins directory and activate it via WordPress administration area.
The pages served through WordPress Super Cache are also compressed, and in this way the bandwidth consumption is reduced at maximum. WordPress Super Cache is available for free download and is compatible with WordPress versions 2.6 and higher.
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