W3 Total Cache Alternatives

W3 Total Cache is described as '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' and is an app. There are more than 10 alternatives to W3 Total Cache for a variety of platforms, including Wordpress, Self-Hosted, Shopware, OpenCart and Laravel apps. The best W3 Total 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 W3 Total Cache are FlyingPress, Hyper Cache, Cache Enabler and Autoptimize.

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  1. WP Rocket icon

    WP Rocket

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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
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    • WP Rocket is the most popular Self-Hosted alternative to W3 Total Cache.

    • WP Rocket is the most popular commercial alternative to W3 Total Cache.

    • WP Rocket is Paid and ProprietaryW3 Total Cache is Free and Proprietary
  2. WP-Optimize icon

    WP-Optimize

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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
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    • WP-Optimize is the most popular free alternative to W3 Total Cache.

    • WP-Optimize is Freemium and ProprietaryW3 Total Cache is Free and Proprietary
  4. WP Super Cache icon

    WP Super Cache

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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
     
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    WP-Optimize

    WP-Optimize is a revolutionary, all-in-one plugin that cleans your database, compresses your images and caches your site.

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  6. FlyingPress icon

    FlyingPress

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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
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    • FlyingPress is the most popular Web-based alternative to W3 Total Cache.

    • FlyingPress is Paid and ProprietaryW3 Total Cache is Free and Proprietary
  7. Hyper Cache icon

    Hyper Cache

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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
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  8. Cache Enabler icon

    Cache Enabler

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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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    • Cache Enabler is the most popular Open Source alternative to W3 Total Cache.

    • Cache Enabler is Free and Open SourceW3 Total Cache is Free and Proprietary
  10. Autoptimize icon

    Autoptimize

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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
     
  11. WP Engine Advanced Cache icon

    WP Engine Advanced Cache

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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
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  12. WP Fastest Cache icon

    WP Fastest Cache

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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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  13. Cachify icon

    Cachify

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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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  14. LiteSpeed Cache icon

    LiteSpeed Cache

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    An all-in-one site acceleration plugin, featuring an exclusive server-level cache and a collection of optimization features.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
    • Shopware
    • OpenCart
    • Laravel
    • Drupal
    • Joomla
    • XenForo
    • MediaWiki
    • PrestaShop
    • Wordpress
    • Magento Community Edition
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  15. Swift Performance icon

    Swift Performance

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    Swift Performance provides an intelligent, modern caching system. You can even cache AJAX request, dynamic pages, and you can add exceptions (URL, page or content based rules).

    Cost / License

    • Freemium (Pay once)
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
    • Wordpress
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