Simple Cache Alternatives

Simple Cache is described as 'Was constructed after getting frustrated with the major caching plugins available and building sites with developer-only complex caching solutions that get millions of page views per day. Simple Cache promises the following:' and is an app. There are more than 10 alternatives to Simple Cache for a variety of platforms, including Wordpress, Self-Hosted, Shopware, OpenCart and Laravel apps. The best Simple Cache alternative is WP Rocket. It's not free, so if you're looking for a free alternative, you could try WP-Optimize or WP Super Cache. Other great apps like Simple Cache are FlyingPress, Hyper Cache, Autoptimize and WP Fastest Cache.

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  1. WP Rocket icon
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    Plugin for WordPress focused on caching and load time reduction, enabling page caching, cache preloading, file minification, and image lazy loading with simple setup, compatibility with e-commerce, easy extensibility for developers, and improved SEO and conversions.

    Cost / License

    • Subscription
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
    • Wordpress
     
    • WP Rocket is the most popular Self-Hosted alternative to Simple Cache.

    • WP Rocket is the most popular commercial alternative to Simple Cache.

    • WP Rocket is Paid and ProprietarySimple Cache is Free and Open Source
  2. WP-Optimize icon
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    WP-Optimize is a revolutionary, all-in-one plugin that cleans your database, compresses your images and caches your site.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium (Pay once)
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
    • Wordpress
     
    • WP-Optimize is the most popular free alternative to Simple Cache.

    • WP-Optimize is Freemium and ProprietarySimple Cache is Free and Open Source
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    This plugin generates static HTML files from your dynamic WordPress blog. After a HTML file is generated your web server will serve that file instead of processing the comparatively heavier and more expensive WordPress PHP scripts.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
    • Wordpress
     
  4. FlyingPress icon
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    FlyingPress is a lightweight and easy to use speed optimization plugin for WordPress.

    Cost / License

    • Pay once
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Wordpress
     
    • FlyingPress is the most popular Web-based alternative to Simple Cache.

    • FlyingPress is Paid and ProprietarySimple Cache is Free and Open Source
  5. Hyper Cache icon
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    Hyper Cache is a lite, simple to configure and highly performant cache plugin for WordPress.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
    • Wordpress
     
  6. Autoptimize icon
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    Autoptimize makes optimizing your site really easy. It can aggregate, minify and cache scripts and styles, injects CSS in the page head by default but can also inline critical CSS and defer the aggregated full CSS, moves and defers scripts to the footer and minifies HTML.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
    • Wordpress
     
    • Autoptimize is the most popular Open Source alternative to Simple Cache.

    • Autoptimize is Free and Open SourceSimple Cache is also Free and Open Source
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    The fastest and easiest wordpress cache plugin.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium (Pay once)
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
    • Wordpress
     
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    This plugin is a tool that leverages some specific WP Engine tools, as well as general web options for increasing the cacheability of a WordPress site.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
    • Wordpress
     
  9. Cachify icon
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    Cachify optimizes your page loads by caching posts, pages and custom post types as static content. You can choose between caching via database, on the web server’s hard drive (HDD), or—thanks to APC (Alternative PHP Cache)—directly in the web server’s system cache.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
    • Wordpress
     
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    The Cache Enabler plugin creates static HTML files and stores them on the servers disk. The web server will deliver the static HTML file and avoids the resource intensive backend processes (core, plugins and database).

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
    • Wordpress
     
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    W3 Total Cache improves the user experience of your site by improving your server performance, caching every aspect of your site, reducing the download times and providing transparent content delivery network (CDN) integration.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
    • Wordpress
     
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    If you care about the speed of your site, Comet Cache is one of those plugins that you absolutely MUST have installed 🙂 Comet Cache takes a real-time snapshot (building a cache) of every Page, Post, Category, Link, etc.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium (Pay once)
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
    • Wordpress
     
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