Basic Features of WP Rocket and How to Use Them

Here are the main features of WP Rocket and ways to explore them:

I - Auto Detect and Configure

When you first activate the WP Rocket plugin on the WordPress admin dashboard, it enables the basic features for site optimization. You will already notice an improvement in site loading speed even without fiddling with any of its settings.

WP Rocket will also detect themes and plugins and configure itself in order to work properly with them.

II - User-Friendly Dashboard

You will be provided with a well-organized dashboard from which to configure the performance of your website. You will be able to tweak and optimize the cache functions of your site such as enabling mobile caching or for logged-in WordPress users.

You can also configure the cache lifespan to permanently store the cache or to purge it based on minutes, hours, or days that you choose.

III - File Optimization

The feature lets you tweak any one of your site's HTML, CSS or JavaScript. You will be able to combine codes or clean them up by either removing whitespace or redundant codes for your site's code.

IV - Lazy Loading

When this feature is enabled, your site will only load pieces of content that are visible to your visitors. And as they scroll lower on your web pages, other media files will be downloaded.

This reduces the volume of content that your server has to load on the initial page load and speeds up the load time.

V - Cache Preloading

This is a useful feature that you can use for optimizing the caching of your website.

When you use other caching plugins, they tend to load your contents into the cache once someone visits your site. This means the first visitor after the cache is emptied doesn't really get a cached version.

The implication is that there might be some delay in the page load speed for that person. The cache preloading enables you to preload content into your cache even when you do not yet have a visitor.

Whenever preloading is activated, WP Rocket will automatically preload new contents that you publish on your site.