W3 Total Cache
Senior SEO-specialist
Want to reduce the loading speed of your website and pages? You can do that with the WordPress plug-in from W3 Total Cache. With the latest best practice technology, this plug-in contributes to that. A fast page ensures a better position in the search results list of search engines.
What is W3 Total Cache?
The W3 Total Cache plug-in ensures that the performance of your website is optimized. The rest of your website need not suffer at all. The plug-in only provides optimization. The rest remains as it is. This way, your page loads faster without sacrificing anything.
Features
There are quite a few features that belong to the W3 Total Cache plug-in. These include support for SSL and AMP, meaning Secure Socket Layer and Accelerated Mobile Pages. The plug-in allows certain aspects of your site to not load immediately upon opening. For example, images that the visitor does not yet have on the screen or irrelevant JavaScript and CSS. This will make the page load faster. And your position in the results list becomes higher.
All functions and features of W3 Total Cache aim to contribute to a fast-loading page. This is good for your position in the results list and good for the experience of visitors to your site.
Impact on SEO
A fast-loading page is an aspect of importance to SEO. This is because you will rank higher in the results list if your page is faster. The faster, the better. For that, you can use the W3 Total Cache plug-in. By optimizing your loading speed, you affect SEO in a positive way. Visitors also experience a fast page as pleasant. Your number of visitors and how long they stay on your page again affect SEO. This is then indirect.
Read more about SEO and WordPress
I enjoy writing about SEO and WordPress. Read all articles here that are (sideways) about optimizing SEO within a WordPress website. From plugins to handy tips.
Plugins/tools for WordPress
- SEO plugins
- SEO Press
- SEO Squirrly
- All In One Rich Snippets
- Autoptimize
- Rank Math
- The SEO Framework
- Yoast SEO
- SEO for WordPress websites
General
My advice
This is a free plug-in. That’s always nice. There is also a paid version. You preserve your website in content and quality by using W3 Total Cache. In that regard, W3 Total Cache is a great choice to improve your loading speed. There are also other plug-ins available for this.
The most complete book on website speed
I’ve written so much about speeding up websites and everything involved that I like to divide it into different sections; general, tools, speed improvement points and tips. Feel free to see and consult all the links below to learn more about tools and tips for speeding up your website.
General
- What is the website speed
- Website speed: The division between marketing and development
- The influence of SEO on UX
- The influence of web design on SEO
- SPAs and SEO
- What are the Google Core Web Vitals?
Tools
Verbter points for speed
- First Contentful Paint (FCP)
- Time To First Byte (TTFB).
- Time To Interactive (TTI).
- Image for Largest view with content (LCP) preloaded
- Enable text compression
- Reduce the CSS
- Total Blocking Time (TBT).
- Speed Index
- Reduce JavaScript
- Largest Contentful Paint
- Avoid an overly large DOM
- Delete unused CSS
- Remove unused JavaScript
- Deliver images in modern layouts
- Connect in advance to required origins
- Preventing obsolete JavaScript from being delivered to modern browsers
- Use an efficient cache policy for static items
- Remove duplicate modules from JavaScript
- Avoid multiple redirects
- Encode images efficiently
- Use lazy loading
- Load important requests in advance
General tips
- Tips for quickly loading a video
- Using Edge SEO for a faster website
- Installing a Content Delivery Network for SEO
- Optimizing images for SEO
- The influence of hosting on SEO
