Caching for a snappier website.
When a WordPress page loads normally, it goes through:
- PHP execution
- Database queries (often 20-50+ queries)
- Theme processing
- Plugin execution
- HTML generation
With Snappy file-based caching, it skips all that and just serves a static HTML file.
Estimates for performance improvement:
- 2x faster is conservative and achievable for most sites
- 5x faster is realistic for database-heavy sites
- 10x faster is possible for poorly optimized sites with many plugins
Advanced Version
Snappy is fully capable with its core caching capability, but if you want or need additional optimization and control, advanced settings are available at snappywp.me.
- HTML, CSS, and JavaScript minification
- GZIP compression
- Lazy loading for images and videos
- Video embed optimization (YouTube/Vimeo facades)
- Font preloading
- Database cleanup (spam, revisions, transients)
- Automatic weekly database optimization
- Cache preloading from sitemap
- Defer JavaScript with exclusions
- Critical CSS extraction and inlining
- WordPress Heartbeat control
- Resource hints (preload, prefetch, DNS-prefetch)
- Browser caching headers via .htaccess
- Security headers (X-Frame-Options, CSP, etc.)
- Cloudflare integration with optimized settings
- CDN integration with URL rewriting
- Settings import/export
- Self-hosted update system