Setting UpW3 Total Cache

The Correct Way

Start Here

Page Cache

• Page cache is one of the most important features of this plugin. Enable it.

• Set this to Disk: Enhanced for most web hosting servers.

Minify

• Minify is an excellent way to boost your website’s speed.

• But since you got Cloudflare installed, leave this disabled.

Database Cache

• Database caching plays a more important role in boosting your website’s speed when you are using a VPS or dedicated server.

• Set Database Cache Method to Disk.

Object Cache

• If you are hosting your website on a dedicated server or VPS, enable this.

• If you are on a normal or shared hosting server, I recommend leaving this unchecked.

Browser Cache

• This will tremendously speed your website’s load time for returning visitors.

• 100% enable this.

CDN

• You will be using Cloudflare’s CDN which will be covered in the later slides.

• Leave this disable.

Reverse Proxy

• Reverse Proxy is a service similar to a CDN where they cache a copy of your site pages and serve it to your visitors from the cloud.

• Leave this disable & use Cloudflare instead as their service is more suited for Wordpress websites.

Network Performance & Security

• A must-have for a 1 second website.• Find your Cloudflare API key here.

Other Not-so-important Settings

Monitoring – New Relic helps you monitor how your website is doing in actionable and easy-to-understand data.

Miscellaneous – You can enter in your Google Page Speed API key to be disabled in your W3 Total Cache dashboard.

Debug – “Do not touch” if unsure.

Import/Export Settings – You can easily export your W3 Total Cache settings from 1 website and import the settings into another website with this.

Setting Up

AdvancedW3 Total Cache

Settings

Advanced Settings: Start Here

Advanced Page Cache

• I like to leave “Don’t cache pages for following user roles: Administrator” because whenever I make any changes, I don’t have to clear cache to view the change.

Advanced Page Cache

• Cache preloading is a pretty awesome feature in W3C. It lets you set a time when the cached pages will be built.

• What this does is it has the plugin pre-make these cached pages on a regular basis so that not even the first visitor has to wait on a slow un-cached page.

• Don’t forget to enter your sitemap URL into the sitemap box.

Advanced Page Cache

Purge Policy & Advanced Tab• Leave them as default

Advanced Minify

• There won’t be much settings to change for Advanced Minify because you will leave most of the minify work to Cloudflare.

Advanced Minify

Advanced Browser Cache

Advanced Browser Cache

Advanced Browser Cache

Advanced Browser Cache

User Agent Groups

• User agents means that you can set things to work differently for a visitor using a web browser like Internet Explorer, Firefox, etc compared to a visitor using a mobile browser on an iPad or iPhone.

• If you are getting a lot of traffic from mobiles and tablets, you can segment your visitors and show them different website themes to suit their device.

Referrer Groups• Almost similar to user agent groups. Referrer

groups segment users by referrers instead of devices.

• If you want to show a different website to people coming from Google, you can do that with referrer groups.

• This can be used to split tests your different traffic sources by creating different landing pages for each of these sources.

Advanced CDN

• No options to change here as your CDN is already configured to Cloudflare.

Now…click Save all settings and you’re done!

Your website is now more optimized

with W3 Total Cache

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