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If you're wondering how to speed up a WordPress site, LitesSpeed Web Server is an excellent All-In-One solution.
LiteSpeed Web Server is an open source WordPress plugin. It is composed of a free part that can be downloaded from WordPress.org and a paid part, which Easy Travel Hosting offers exclusively to all its customers.
The free part of Litespeed Web Server is called LSCWP (LiteSpeed Cache for WordPress) which can be downloaded as plugins by clicking here, and then installed on your WordPress site.
This cache optimization plugin creates an optimized copy of your website for faster browser recall.
The second part, that we offer free of charge to our customers, is Lsws (LiteSpeed Web Server) which integrates with LSCWP to drastically reduce page loading times, thanks to advanced cache management tools, which interact with the server by allocating its resources intelligently.
With advanced cache management tools and optimization features, LSCWP is an All-In-One site acceleration solution - say goodbye to all the optimization tools you used before!
With Web Server LiteSpeed, your site can use best practices that ensure a high PageSpeed score and, more importantly, an exceptional user experience.
If you want to know the PageSpeed of your site, you can A test that.
WHY DOES A SITE SLOW DOWN?
LiteSpeed Web Server is therefore an effective way to speed up a website. This is done through page caching. Let's now take an example of a site created with WordPress, but the operation applies to any content management system (CMS).
When WordPress is first installed, it works quickly. However, you will find yourself installing additional components to enrich your site.
Usually a custom theme and also a certain number of plugins are used. Your site now looks great and, thanks to the various plugins, has all the functionality you need.
Only following these additions, the site will load more slowly
It happens in part because every time someone loads a page, all the PHP code in your theme and active plugins must be executed, in order to create the final output of the page. If you have a lot of plugins, or a poorly coded theme or plugin, this can cause significant overhead and result in a very slow site.
Storage of the cache
The idea of caching is that instead of doing all the heavy lifting every time a page loads, we only do it once when the page is accessed for the first time.
In this way The output of the code is archived and loaded by the second time that the page is visited. So instead of rebuilding the entire page dynamically, we simply generate the stored HTML code.
This helps greatly in speeding up the website, but there is one big problem that needs to be addressed: what happens when the contents change?
Eviction of the cache
If we cache content, we need to know when the content changes. For example, if you change text on a page or product prices, you need to make sure that visitors can see the updated page, and not the previously cached one.
To ensure this, the page must be cached “disrupt” when the content changes. Once the old content is ejected from the cache, the next time the content is accessed, the content will be dynamically generated again and new updated HTML output will be stored in the cache, ready for the next visitor.
To handle this, applications like WordPress have numerous plugins that create cached content and eject any specific content when someone edits it via the WordPress admin area.
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You should now have a good understanding of the general concept of a page cache. If you are a WordPress user, you may have already used one of the numerous caching plugins, but these are likely application-level caching plugins.
In most cases, if someone visits a WordPress site with a caching plugin implemented, the PHP still needs to be executed. The code that tells the user to load the HTML into the cache is coded in PHP inside the caching plugin. It is therefore necessary that the PHP code 'core’ WordPress runs and the caching plugin PHP code runs and loads the HTML from the cache. You have therefore saved a lot of overhead since you don't have to run the code of all the plugins you have installed, but you are still running some PHP code.
With storage in the cache of the Server side page, you don't need to run PHP. When a request for a page arrives in a server side page caching environment, if cached content exists, it is passed directly to the visitor without even invoking WordPress or a PHP execution.
But as regards the “evicted” of the cache? How does the web server know that its content is up to date?
In the same way that an application level cache needs to purge pages from the cache when the content changes, so does the server side page cache.
For this to work, you need to install a plugin or extension into the application itself that knows how to properly delete cached content from your server's side page cache.
As with application page caches, the LiteSpeed Web Server server-side page cache can be cleared using a simple plug-in, designed specifically to work with LiteSpeed Web Server, or one that is more generically designed to work with a server-side page cache (such as Paint).
This is because LiteSpeed Web Server was designed to work just like other server side page caches and can have the cache deleted upon receipt of HTTP delete requests, or more simply, by deleting files in a hidden cache folder in your user account.
WEB SERVER LITESPEEED E WORDPRESS
For WordPress, caching is just the beginning. WordPress is by far the most popular CMS on the Internet today, powering over 35% of websites.
It's no surprise then that LiteSpeed Web Server spent a long time developing caching integration with WordPress. They've gone well beyond the essential functions of page caching and cache eviction processing and have also integrated a myriad of other in-app optimization features, all designed to turbocharge WordPress websites.
All the features you would want in an optimization solution are present in LiteSpeed Web Server: merge CSS and Javascript, minify code, image loading “lazy”, leverage HTTP/2 Push Server support, defer javascript, optimize images and much more.
Conclusions
Once configured, LiteSpeed web server is an excellent way to speed up your WordPress site.
It will not only be fast due to caching, but it will also be optimized in terms of internal code, supercharging site speeds and helps you achieve PageSpeed scores and increase your SEO.
Furthermore, the use of this plug-in represents the perfect ALL-IN-ONE solution that will make all other optimization plug-ins obsolete, which can be deactivated and uninstalled in favor of LiteSpeed alone.
Easy Travel Hosting offers LiteSpeed Web Server for free in all its hosting packages and our team will help you configure it in the best way to speed up your website.
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