: What open source software is available to speed up your website? I use WP SuperCache and W3 TotalCache to optimize the speed of my Wordpress website by caching. That really helps! But lately

@Nimeshi995

When building websites, there are multiple aspects that will affect the perceived speed of the website.

Some best practices you need to follow are available from Yahoo and Google:


Yahoo web performance best practices
Google web performance best practices


Other aspects depend on the architecture of your application, wih or without a database, static content or different content per user, and myriad other things that might have their own best practices for better performance.

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@Vandalay111

Well Website speed is not entirely dependents upon the cache only, this is one aspect and there are lot of other factors which needs to be taken care of.

memcached is one of the popular distributed memory object caching system.Beside there are lots of other heck like the number of database hots your site requires , how you portal asking browser to do caching for it.

Yahoo has published a good Blog about generic methods which should be taken care while optimizing your website for speed.

Best Practices for Speeding Up Your Web Site

Beside this one of the core area of optimization is always your DB and application interaction with it.

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@Phylliss660

memcached is extremely popular, but that only provides a key-value store in memory. It's a good starting point, and one you could use entirely on your own if you were so inclined.

The extra effort of adding proper HTML cache control tags and everything else depends largely on the environment. Tools such as Rack::Cache can help you manage the headers on your resources.

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