sg optimizer + wp super cache: yes or no?

  • Resolved mattiejas

    (@mattiejas)


    8 years ago

    I’ve been using WP Super Cache for quite a while on my siteground wordpress site. However I just now installed SG Optimizer. Does it still make sense to leave WP Super Cache enabled, or should I just disable it?

    On a more general note, it would be useful to document how this plugin interacts with other caching plugins, for instance under:

    https://en-gb.www.ads-software.com/plugins/sg-cachepress/other_notes/

    Thanks in advance for any guidance!

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  • Plugin Support ivanatanasov

    (@ivanatanasov)

    @mattiejas – My name is Ivan Atanasov, part of the Senior Support team at SiteGround.

    Both SG Optimizer and WP Super Cache are offering full page caching. While WP Super Cache is including the cached content in files, our SG Optimizer includes them directly in the server memory – which is expected to be much faster and more reliable.

    I would recommend disabling WP Super Cache in order to use SG Optimizer.
    Using both plugins at the same time, could lead to issues since both have the same purpose, but utilize different caching models.

    (and if any assistance is required – don’t hesitate to create a Support Ticket from your User Area)

    Thread Starter mattiejas

    (@mattiejas)

    Many thanks for the quick reply and the clear answer, Ivan!

    coccoinomane

    (@coccoinomane)

    Hi Mattiejas,

    Please let me add something to ivanatanasov’s answer.

    WP Super Cache (and similar plugins) perform useful tasks other than caching to speed up your website. Two of these tasks are Gzip compression and browser’s cache leveraging (ex. https://torquemag.io/2016/04/enable-gzip-compression-wordpress/). Usually these two features write some lines in your .htaccess that, in my experience, do not interfere with caching.

    Therefore, here’s my advice: use caching from SG Optimizer, disable caching from WP Super Cache, but keep other non-caching-related optimizations from WP Super Cache (or, at least, keep the htaccess lines).

    Cheers,
    Guido

    Thread Starter mattiejas

    (@mattiejas)

    Many thanks Guido for the tips.

    I’ve enabled browser cache and gzip compression via my htaccess file; works like charm along with SG Optimizer as far as I can tell. I also installed the Autoptimize plugin to minify and merge the html/css/js files. All this together resulted in a 94% pagespeed score on gtmetrix, so I’m pretty happy.

    Cheers,
    mattiejas

    coccoinomane

    (@coccoinomane)

    Great, I am happy it worked for you, mattiejas!

    One last thing: combining html/css/js files is not needed anymore if you are on HTTP2, which is probably the case if you are on SiteGround and have HTTPS enabled. For more details, see here: https://premium.wpmudev.org/blog/wordpress-http2

    Cheers,
    Guido

    Thread Starter mattiejas

    (@mattiejas)

    Thanks for pointing this out, Guido. Interesting, the Autoptimize plugin author points that there might still be some benefit even with HTTP2:

    https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/switched-to-ssl-http2-autoptimize-now-doesnt-seem-to-be-working/#post-8816058

    Just double checked and the site is on HTTP2 indeed. I’ll just do a comparison with gtmetrix and then decide whether to drop it or not in the long term.

    Plugin Author Hristo Pandjarov

    (@hristo-sg)

    SiteGround Representative

    Glad all is solved, marking the thread accordingly!

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