W3 Total Cache Alternatives

W3 Total Cache is described as 'Improves the user experience of your site by improving your server performance, caching every aspect of your site, reducing the download times and providing transparent content delivery network (CDN) integration' and is an app. There are more than 10 alternatives to W3 Total Cache for a variety of platforms, including Wordpress, Self-Hosted, Shopware, OpenCart and Laravel apps. The best W3 Total Cache alternative is WP Rocket. It's not free, so if you're looking for a free alternative, you could try WP-Optimize or WP Super Cache. Other great apps like W3 Total Cache are FlyingPress, Hyper Cache, Cache Enabler and WP Engine Advanced Cache.

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  1. WP Rocket icon
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    Plugin for WordPress focused on caching and load time reduction, enabling page caching, cache preloading, file minification, and image lazy loading with simple setup, compatibility with e-commerce, easy extensibility for developers, and improved SEO and conversions.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
    • Wordpress
     
  2. WP-Optimize icon
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    WP-Optimize is a revolutionary, all-in-one plugin that cleans your database, compresses your images and caches your site.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
    • Wordpress
     
  3. This plugin generates static HTML files from your dynamic WordPress blog. After a HTML file is generated your web server will serve that file instead of processing the comparatively heavier and more expensive WordPress PHP scripts.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
    • Wordpress
     
  4. FlyingPress icon
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    FlyingPress is a lightweight and easy to use speed optimization plugin for WordPress.

    19 FlyingPress alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Wordpress
     
  5. Hyper Cache icon
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    Hyper Cache is a lite, simple to configure and highly performant cache plugin for WordPress.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
    • Wordpress
     
  6. The Cache Enabler plugin creates static HTML files and stores them on the servers disk. The web server will deliver the static HTML file and avoids the resource intensive backend processes (core, plugins and database).

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
    • Wordpress
     
  7. This plugin is a tool that leverages some specific WP Engine tools, as well as general web options for increasing the cacheability of a WordPress site.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
    • Wordpress
     
  8. The fastest and easiest wordpress cache plugin.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
    • Wordpress
     
  9. Cachify icon
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    Cachify optimizes your page loads by caching posts, pages and custom post types as static content. You can choose between caching via database, on the web server’s hard drive (HDD), or—thanks to APC (Alternative PHP Cache)—directly in the web server’s system cache.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
    • Wordpress
     
  10. Autoptimize icon
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    Autoptimize makes optimizing your site really easy. It can aggregate, minify and cache scripts and styles, injects CSS in the page head by default but can also inline critical CSS and defer the aggregated full CSS, moves and defers scripts to the footer and minifies HTML.

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
    • Wordpress
     
  11. An all-in-one site acceleration plugin, featuring an exclusive server-level cache and a collection of optimization features.

    19 LiteSpeed Cache alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
    • Shopware
    • OpenCart
    • Laravel
    • Drupal
    • Joomla
    • XenForo
    • MediaWiki
    • PrestaShop
    • Wordpress
    • Magento Community Edition
     
  12. Swift Performance provides an intelligent, modern caching system. You can even cache AJAX request, dynamic pages, and you can add exceptions (URL, page or content based rules).

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
    • Wordpress
     
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