Site speed and performance optimization don\u2019t have to be a complex task. With Solid Performance, simply install and activate, and the plugin will incrementally create static versions of each URL of your website for an instant performance boost.<\/p>\n\n
You\u2019re busy, and you need to spend time building your website. In order to build well you need a solid foundation. Installing Solid Performance lets you optimize your site performance right away and start building sooner and faster without having to spend time configuring dozens of options.<\/p>\n\n
A solid caching solution should not cause breakage with your favorite plugins. Solid Performance comes out of the box with smart plugin exception rules for pages that have dynamic content created by these plugins:\n* WooCommerce\n* GiveWP<\/p>\n\n
With these smart defaults and page caching in place automatically, you can focus your time and energy on building and enhancing your website instead of struggling through dozens of caching settings.<\/p>\n\n
There are several different types of caching<\/p>\n\n
Solid Performance focuses exclusively on page caching, grabbing the HTML of your WordPress URLs and storing that in a secure directory. Then, when your visitors arrive at your site, the browser doesn\u2019t need to run through PHP or hit your database again, it just serves up the desktop or mobile (if enabled) versions of static HTML, CSS, and JS files fast and simply.<\/p>\n\n
As soon as you activate Solid Performance, your site will get an immediate boost. You\u2019ll see benefits like these:\n\ud83d\ude80 Improved site performance (content delivery speed) \n\ud83d\ude80 Reduced drag on server load\n\ud83d\ude80 Measurable, quantifiable stats: lower bounce rates and higher conversion rates<\/p>\n\n
When a site developer or manager is able to improve site performance for a client (for example), they are able to provide improved SEO results and meet a widely accepted expectation that well-run sites do not have slow download or content delivery times.<\/p>\n\n\n
There are several ways to install and activate Solid Performance for your website. Here are two of them:<\/p>\n\n
To install and activate Solid Performance via your WordPress admin area, navigate to \u201cPlugins > Add New Plugin\u201d. On that screen, go to the search field on the far right top of the screen and type in \u201cSolid Performance\u201d and hit Enter. The \u201cSolid Performance\u201d plugin should be your first result.<\/p>\n\n
In the \u201cSolid Performance\u201d plugin card, click on the \u201cInstall Now\u201d button. You\u2019ll see the button change to \u201cInstalling\u201d, then it will switch to say \u201cActivate\u201d, click \u201cActivate\u201d. At that point, Solid Performance is active on your website.<\/p>\n\n
Lastly, navigate to the Dashboard, then navigate to \u201cSettings > Solid Performance\u201d and toggle the option to \u201cEnable Page Cache\u201d. Now your site is SOLID with Solid Performance.<\/p>\n\n
\/wp-content\/plugins\/<\/code> directory<\/li>\n- Navigate to your WordPress admin area, and then to \u201cPlugins\u201d. You\u2019ll see \u201cSolid Performance\u201d in your list of plugins, but it will not be activated. Click on the \u201cActivate\u201d link.<\/li>\n
- The page will refresh automatically. Navigate to \u201cSettings > Solid Performance\u201d. <\/li>\n
- Toggle the \u201cEnable Page Caching\u201d option. <\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n
Now your site is SOLID with Solid Performance!<\/p>\n\n\n
\nWill this help me pass all Core Web Vitals?<\/h3><\/dt>\nCore Web Vitals is impacted mostly by your theme and the creative assets and scripts you use to build your website. But page caching (the kind Solid Performance leverages) helps specifically to improve your time to \u201cLargest Contentful Paint\u201d, which is one important Web Core Vital metric.<\/p><\/dd>\n
How does Solid Performance improve the performance of my website?<\/h3><\/dt>\nWhen Solid Performance is activated on a site, a specific advanced cache drop-in file will be added to the wp-content directory.<\/p>\n\n
Using a drop-in will allow the plugin to handle serving cached responses to users before WordPress has had a chance to load fully since they load prior to MU and normal plugins.<\/p>\n\n
When page caching is enabled, the buffer generated by WordPress will be saved to separate static HTML files, one for desktop (enabled by default) and one for mobile (enabled in Settings > Solid Performance > Advanced), within the wp-content\/cache directory. On subsequent requests to the same post, Solid Performance will respond with the cached page matching the type of device making the request.<\/p><\/dd>\n
Is Solid Performance compatible with popular plugins like WooCommerce and GiveWP?<\/h3><\/dt>\nSolid Performance will detect active plugins that have known cache exclusions, like WooCommerce & GiveWP (and more!), and implement them automatically.<\/p><\/dd>\n\n<\/dl>\n\n\n
1.9.0<\/h4>\n\nEnhancements<\/h4>\n\n\n- Added mobile page caching: separate cache files for mobile and desktop visitors using device detection. Enable from Settings > Solid Performance (Mobile Cache option).<\/li>\n
- PHP cache headers and debug HTML comments now indicate device hit type (mobile vs desktop).<\/li>\n
- Mobile cache configuration is included in Site Health debug information.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n
Maintenance<\/h4>\n\n