W3 Total Cache is one of the best plugin or maybe the best to optimize your website's speed. This tutorial will show you how to setup W3 Total Cache for maximum efficiency.

1. Setting Up
W3 Total Cache
The Correct Way

2. Start Here

3. Page Cache
• Page cache is one of the most important
features of this plugin. Enable it.
• Set this to Disk: Enhanced for most web
hosting servers.

4. Minify
• Minify is an excellent way to boost your
website’s speed.
• But since you got Cloudflare installed, leave
this disabled.

5. Database Cache
• Database caching plays a more important
role in boosting your website’s speed when
you are using a VPS or dedicated server.
• Set Database Cache Method to Disk.

6. Object Cache
• If you are hosting your website on a
dedicated server or VPS, enable this.
• If you are on a normal or shared hosting
server, I recommend leaving this unchecked.

7. Browser Cache
• This will tremendously speed your website’s
load time for returning visitors.
• 100% enable this.

8. CDN
• You will be using Cloudflare’s CDN which will
be covered in the later slides.
• Leave this disable.

9. Reverse Proxy
• Reverse Proxy is a service similar to a CDN where they
cache a copy of your site pages and serve it to your
visitors from the cloud.
• Leave this disable & use Cloudflare instead as their
service is more suited for Wordpress websites.

10. Network Performance & Security
• A must-have for a 1 second website.
• Find your Cloudflare API key here.

11. Other Not-so-important Settings
Monitoring – New Relic helps you monitor how your website is
doing in actionable and easy-to-understand data.
Miscellaneous – You can enter in your Google Page Speed API
key to be disabled in your W3 Total Cache dashboard.
Debug – “Do not touch” if unsure.
Import/Export Settings – You can easily export your W3 Total
Cache settings from 1 website and import the settings into
another website with this.

12. Setting Up
Advanced
W3 Total Cache
Settings

13. Advanced Settings: Start Here

14. Advanced Page Cache
• I like to leave “Don’t cache pages for following user
roles: Administrator” because whenever I make any
changes, I don’t have to clear cache to view the change.

15. Advanced Page Cache
• Cache preloading is a pretty awesome feature in W3C. It lets you set a
time when the cached pages will be built.
• What this does is it has the plugin pre-make these cached pages on a
regular basis so that not even the first visitor has to wait on a slow un-
cached page.
• Don’t forget to enter your sitemap URL into the sitemap box.

16. Advanced Page Cache
Purge Policy & Advanced Tab
• Leave them as default

17. Advanced Minify
• There won’t be much settings to change for
Advanced Minify because you will leave most of the
minify work to Cloudflare.

18. Advanced Minify

19. Advanced Browser Cache

20. Advanced Browser Cache

21. Advanced Browser Cache

22. Advanced Browser Cache

23. User Agent Groups
• User agents means that you can set things to
work differently for a visitor using a web
browser like Internet Explorer, Firefox, etc
compared to a visitor using a mobile browser
on an iPad or iPhone.
• If you are getting a lot of traffic from mobiles
and tablets, you can segment your visitors and
show them different website themes to suit
their device.

24. Referrer Groups
• Almost similar to user agent groups. Referrer
groups segment users by referrers instead of
devices.
• If you want to show a different website to
people coming from Google, you can do that
with referrer groups.
• This can be used to split tests your different
traffic sources by creating different landing
pages for each of these sources.

25. Advanced CDN
• No options to change here as your CDN is
already configured to Cloudflare.

26. Now…click Save all settings and you’re done!
Your website is now
more optimized
with W3 Total Cache

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