If your Wordress org site is slow, meaning it takes a long time to load; or your website statistics show you have a high bounce rate, meaning people are finding your site through search engines, but leave within a fraction of a second, here is a quick fix:
- Go to your dashboard.
- In the left sidebar go to Plugins Add New.
- Under “Search” type in “WP Cache” and click on “Search Plugins”.
- Find “WP-Cache” and click install.
- It will take you to your installed Plugins page. Find “WP-Cache” and click activate.
- In your left sidebar you will find “WP-Cache” under Settings. There, you can define how many seconds you wish the cache to continue. It defaults at 3600 seconds (1 hour). I read that if your site is busy you should reset it to 1800. No one defines what a busy site is, but I assume if you get over 10,000 or 20,000 page views a month it would be considered busy; not really sure.
What does cache mean? Cache is a way of storing your data, but showing a picture (snapshot of your page), yet the data is available when needed.
There is also another Plugin that helps speed up your site by caching your widgets. That is called “WP Widget Cache”. If you have widgets, meaning text boxes with Java Script or html code added to your site, then this will help speed up your site, as well.
I hope this helps you.
Happy blogging!
