Everyone knows the importance of site speed and its importance in retaining visitors and one of the best plugins for Wordpress in speeding up your site has to be W3C Total Cache. For a long time I had used
WP-Super Cache but found it to not necessarily work as I wanted it to. I was always on the look out for something else and thanks to
Joost De Valk I became more and more sold on the idea of W3C Total Cache, and frankly its awesome.
However even though it has pretty good documentation and the install process is straightforward I found there was nowhere that really told me how to set up everything to get it working at its optimal settings. Thats when I came across
this tutorial. I've included a
downladable pdf of the guide if you would rather read this but the following information should help you optimise your websites load speed. I managed to take make my homepage load in 2.5 seconds and rank at 80 (Grade B) on YSlow, still with some work left to be done i.e HTML requests/CSS Sprites.
