How To Speed Up WordPress Tutorial Using LiteSpeed Cache

In this WordPress speed tutorial, you will learn how to speed optimize your website using LiteSpeed Cache which is a free plugin when you have LiteSpeed hosting.
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Table Of Contents
00:00:00 Video Overview
00:00:34 What Is LiteSpeed
00:01:29 LiteSpeed Hosts
00:02:20 Hosting For The Video
00:03:13 Baseline Test
00:06:59 How To Get LSCache
00:07:51 Plugin Overview
00:08:28 General Settings
00:09:37 Important Plugin Warning
00:11:31 Cache Settings
00:16:22 CDN Settings
00:18:26 Image Optimization Settings
00:22:53 Page Optimization Settings
00:28:59 Database Optimizations
00:29:58 Crawler Settings
00:30:47 Toolbox Settings
00:31:51 Image Optimization Again
00:32:32 Website Check
00:33:14 Retest
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[@matt8578]

I've had issues a number of times with various topics, and whenever I search for a solution invariably a video of yours pops up. Your content has proven trustworthy and reliable for me. I am glad you take the time to create these videos!

[@sci_99]

You know what, I don't normally comment but you're right. You did put in a lot of work and I really really appreciate that. This was very well done! I appreciate all the time and effort you put into the project.

[@astronotyet]

Thanks Adam, always a delight to see your videos.

[@axellarsen3063]

Well done, these settings really improved the score of my website. Thank you for taking the time to make this video and share the information. Happy Christmas

[@DrMei]

OMG!! I followed your tutorial and brought my website from a D/B score to an A/A score! It was just a few steps but changed dramatically!! Thank you so much for this setting tutorial!!

[@WPCrafter]

Awesome to hear!!!

[@codewithsaj9270]

do you use cloudflare?

[@DrMei]

@@codewithsaj9270 I use NameHero.

[@zpepe]

Initially my site slowed down quite a bit after making the (using Namehero + WP Rocket + free CloudFlare originally). I was about to switch back but after a few days (I think 3-5) my Gtmetrix went through the roof into mid 90s. Also it did require me to watch other litespeed cache plugin videos specifically, as Adam didn't cover everything with his initial video (looks like he has done).The only thing I see now is that the size of the site is still higher then prior. I've been monitoring my load times through out the day and will send the info to Adam. Props to Adam for yet an other incredibly valuable contribution to the online community. No one has every told me about this (I'm speed obsessed). So a heartfelt thank you Adam

[@inspector-tech]

I'm going through these settings now in this video and it seems to have broken my site. All pages load completely wrong. On refresh they work ok. Think i'll reverse all settings and remove this plugin.

[@BradWarren]

Been meaning to watch this for weeks and it was worth the wait. So useful.

[@mattiebrownoz]

Wow. Heaps here to review. Thanks mate, I'll watch later on and take some notes.

[@WPCrafter]

Thanks, yea I know I pack a lot into a video but I the side benefit is the table of content I have been adding so you can easily find what you want. Cool huh.

[@kishna_chauhan]

Woow its like you know what i want.. i just about to ask for this and here u go without asking... U really know what we want...

[@delower]

Php 7.4 doen't have it

[@bethw7]

This is really timely for me - thank you! An updated video with your favorite plugins would be awesome.

[@WPCrafter]

Coming right up.

[@bethw7]

Cool. I literally just switched over to Namehero/Litespeed/Kadence as per your recommendations and am planning my ecommerce site structure as we speak.

[@halbertech]

Nice job Adam. I can tell you from experience that there is no discernible difference between enabling redis over memcached for object caching performance on most WordPress installs. In fact, on most hosts [at least the ones I used] using litespeed, memcache is better configured to work with the cache plugin.

[@WPCrafter]

Thanks for sharing :-)

[@mahmoudali3046]

I usually don't agree with your opinions on some points but this viedio is very helpful and i can't thank you enough... thanks alot

[@rubenssza]

Hi Mate, all of your videos are so helpful. Im struggling to get my ocean wp theme a good score, even paid service didn't help to get my score above 8 on mobile. After this video I got score 47 on google speed and desktop from 40 to 85. I'm still struggling on the mobile score but i will get there. Thank you so much for your great content!!!

[@adityaarsharmapersonal]

besttt thanks alott.... part of Hostinger from 2 Years

[@DaveStevens192]

Another great video Adam. Thank you!

[@WPCrafter]

Thanks Dave.

[@krio99]

Thank you so much! May god bless you!👍❤️

[@lemniscateunlimited9742]

Thank you so much!!!!! I have lite hosting but I didn't know what to do with it and my dead line is tomorrow for my site project XD You saved me!

[@jessicasampila9719]

Good work, your videos always help me a lot on my wp website. Keep up the good job

[@thepurpleufo]

What a great tutorial...thanks, Adam.

[@mulkproject687]

i have been using HOSTINGER + LITESPEEDCACHING is very powerfull tool ..i love it.

[@TechHobbies]

excellent explanation. It helped my site to speed up. Thanks a lot.

[@YTBenZ]

thank you for another useful tutorial! I couldn't find the Memcached or Redis extensions. Anyway, I moved my client from SG to Hostinger and it's MUCH quicker! thanks again.

[@kirintenshi]

I couldn't find them on my Hostinger php configuration tab either.

[@jigsawkloud]

Great content. Thank you!

[@ahmedparbes]

Thank you man.. You make my day😍

[@Apollo_GodMode]

its 2022 and this video is really effective, thank you!

[@WPCrafter]

Thank you!

[@malguzartech]

thanks a lot for this video, a great help

[@keephumanity6185]

Great video , keep up!!!

[@DonSalgerd]

Tnx from Russia, Great Video!!!

[@jeffkhankha9607]

HI > I have reduced a lot of database errors with this setting. Thanks ADAM

[@myeong.t_magar]

Thank you so much sir.. It did it.. After following each step you tell.. My GTmetrix Pagespeed Score 98% and Loaded Time 2.7second before it was 32Seconds with D Pagespeed score 😂 🙏Thank you so much.

[@afeksichannel3382]

wow keren saya juga msh 5 detik dari awal 7 detik

[@socialmediamarketing_maher]

Thank you so much it helped me a lot as I had a DIVI website where loading time was too high as I used a lot of images and videos but after following each step it drastically reduced. Question- Do we need to compress our images first then we should upload them like free stock images are quite huge or these plugins take care??

[@pareshnw]

Was waiting for this video. Thank you so much for guiding us. Please guide us on cloudflare ideal setup and settings. Please Adam make video on this. I know you don't like cloudflare but for starters its the best option available as it's free. So please make cloudflare setup video. Will be waiting for cloudflare video.

[@stunt_double]

Thanks my website is now blazing fast!!!

[@digitalnishant-seoblogging6784]

Thanks Adam sir it made my website really fast

[@JulieDulong]

Thanks for this. It would be great to see an update to this video... lots of new settings in Lightspeed Plugin since 2020.

[@rafaelmazelli5868]

Reeaaally goodd videoo!! Congratsss!!

[@michaelgrunewalder9879]

Hi and thanks for the great tutorial. I'm on hostinger and so far quite happy with them. My question is in regards to the Object cache - even if I change the port to the redis port, the only green options I have are that PHP loaded the extensions, but the connection test stays on failed - doesn't that mean it's not using any of the options?

[@BigaroTv]

Thank you sir greetings from morocco

[@rudy_fitness.trainer725]

Great work! my website is now a rocket

[@nzlotrfan]

Thank you! But may I seek advice? My Page Requests shown in GTMatrix increased after using Litespeed. What setting should I amend to lower the number of page requests?

[@mad_ball_morphs6477]

nice one mate spot on

[@mahmoudgh2030]

Thanks

[@iballmedia]

Such an informative video ... thank you so much for your time to help us be better developers.

[@jamesmcdonald3640]

Nice work duder~

[@patyfromgto]

Thank you :)

[@sahanmuratoglu890]

Thanks for the great content. I have a problem related with LiteSpeed Cache Plugin which causes white blank page error some of my blog posts. Is there any certain solution for that?

[@concaveslimited840]

thanks love you

[@abhishekshah8946]

Awesome video bro...

[@joemauri77]

Hola, tus videos me han ayudado mucho, pero sería increíble que tuvieran opción de subtitulos en español.

[@kaludactn]

Hello. I am really a fan of your channel. Really easy to understand technical issues. Please one question: is worth using a CDN if most of our traffic is from local areas and usually from same country ( România)?

[@sherifmoussa4827]

My favorite channel

[@pixel4u]

Great stuff thanks. I cancled the CSS critical feature and I still see that weird stuff shown before the page loads. any ideas how to solve? thanks!

[@rpaul1979]

Awesome! Please make a video on how to reduce php Executions

[@RawFitnessBmore]

Great video, thank you! Does the Litespeed plugin do Gzip compression? Or add expires headers?

[@emilyboever1800]

Does this work well with Thrive Themes? I have shot pixels. Do you recommend using it with the setup you recommend on this video?

[@kioscopd1]

Excellent video !! I learned a lot and I have used what you say in it. But do you know that the main page of my website does not show the images? Where should I check to fix this? Thank you! Also, I can't find the .redis extension in my PHP version 7.4. Can this be fixed?

[@prabhash011]

Hi Adam, I just completed watching this video and implemented all that you said on my website. It increased the speed a lot, but my logo isn't displaying with lazy load. It only appears for a fraction of second after the site loads, and then it disappers. I even tried excluding my logos from lazy load but it didn't work. It's only appearing with lazy load off. Can you help me with this issue? Does keeping lazy load off makes my site kuch slower than keeping it on?

[@qaimb]

Thank you sir, I crawled the whole youtube, Every tutorial I came across was just enabling disabling things, nobody was bothering to explain what those option does when enabled/disabled.

[@alderinerush]

I shifted to A2 hosting Turbo plan from Hostgator cloud after watching your last video. In the initial testing it seems to have made my site slower. Litespeed cache plugin was having compatibility issues so I used A2 Optimized plugin to implement litespeed.

[@zpepe]

I had the exact same issue with mine (using Namehero + WP Rocket + free CloudFlare originally). I was about to switch back but after pa few days (I think 3-5) my Gtmetrix went through the roof into mid 90s. Also it did require me to watch other litespeed cache plugin videos specifically, as Adam didn't cover everything with his initial video (looks like he has done).The only thing I see now is that the size of the site is still higher then prior. I've been monitoring my load times through out the day and will send the info to Adam.

[@zpepe]

I was with a2hosting prior to switching to Namehero. I also used their optimized caching plugin a2optimized. But I got better results using WP rocket and cloudflare configured properly.

[@alderinerush]

@@zpepe Yeah, I will play with different settings and try to optimise it. First I'll switch to 7.2 php instead of default 7.3 and see if litespeed plugin becomes compatible. The plan I have selected comes with 2 gb ram. But at similar price, hostgator has cloud hosting with 6gb ram. They have now upgraded to ssd drive and also promise server side caching (don't know if that's litespeed). So as you can see hostgator plan seems tempting.

[@zadekeys2194]

I also have some sites on A2. Can't recall which plan, but I've been quite impressed. They do regular security checks followed up with an email, so you can take action.

[@zadekeys2194]

@@zpepe what is your url? I have what I deem a bad (speed wise) host, and with 5x HD images with 1xTinyjpg run on them & my load time is 4.5-6 seconds. This is with autoptimise + w3 cache + a WAF + elementor etc. Run pingdom's free scan & check your total image size. Size your images to the sites wide (in my case 1070 if I recall) & then run then through something like Tinyjpg. I do find that the Tinyjpg Analyser, estimates my post compression size to be 1/2 of what I actually get from their tool. In Gtmetrix, what is your sites first few entries under the Waterfall tab?

[@collectiveunconscious3d]

Hey Adam, thanks for this info. How do you deal with mailing subscribers? And email sending, do you ever run into problems with these plugins not working properly?

[@AndresBurbano]

Hi. If you could choose a hosting provider what would you choose: Siteground or Hostinger. Thank you!... By the way great videos.

[@ClickbyClickus]

hey, as always thanks for the great content. Any recommendations for a way to block plugin or plugin scripts/ files from loading on specific pages?

[@indian3960]

you can use perfmatters paid plugin.. contact me if you need a discount.... because I already purchased unlimited sites key

[@TroyDegarnham]

Asset Cleanup

[@mahmoudismael7380]

you are the best

[@vinaykmr044]

Amazing Tutorial... I implemented these settings. Everything was Ok but my footer social media icons are not visible. Please guide me, what to do?

[@choicebarber]

Do you have any videos on how to reduce CPU usage for Wordpress (using site Ground)

[@qf6894]

Does the LS lazy load make the new WP 5.5 lazy load obsolete or vice versa? Or do they play well with each other? Do you turn one completely off? Or half and half? Very difficult to know what's optimal!

[@navdeep-soni]

Does it provide solution to scripts by Google tag manager or google fonts that slows down intially ( core web vitals )?

[@EjazWebTV]

Please help me.. how to set as default setting in LSC WordPress plugin... as i could not found any setting where i can Set As Default.. thanks in advance

[@parasaneja7171]

Hi, can you please tell me an easy way to auto reload some section of the website or auto reload a widget?

[@indian3960]

Could you please also make a video on Quick Cloud CDN .... Because there is a lot of options... A newbie may be messed up... Thanks!!!

[@SaranshSrivastava3]

Hii Adam, should we use css minification and js minification? If I am using cloudflare minification for css and js file?? please ...

[@lilou_dawn_illustration]

Hi! Thank you so much for these tutorials! Just want to ask if you know why mine it says, cache is unavailable? I don't know what I did but it was working before. I added smush I recall...huhuhu

[@rangagurusinghe104]

Thank you sir for the video. Do I still need a plugin such as A3 Lazy Load or Smush, when I have LiteSpeed Cache?

[@kirintenshi]

As far as I'm aware, you don't need anything else, as Litespeed cache has lazy load and image optimization too.

[@saifurrehman6756]

Hello! Thanks for the nice video. I would also like to know how you divided the video into different parts (showing in the bar). Clickable time-span in Table of contents. Can you please make a video on it or send me a relevant video link?

[@WPCrafter]

That is a KZbin feature. If you have a table of contents in the video description, that will be there.

[@themindpedia]

Thank You Adam. All your tutorial are super easy to implement and of great value. Thank you for not charging any money for such information. I am using Hostinger. Many people give bad review regarding it as it's cheap. But till date I have not faced any problem with their service. What do you think about it ? I believe you as all your answers and tutorial are well researched. Should I stick with Hostinger?

[@adityaarsharmapersonal]

Yup since there was a security Breach In Hostinger Last Year. But they have Updated there Security I am Using Hostinger from Past 2 Years. I am 100% comfortable with its You can continue using it and they got good Support so i think there is a issue,if you are sticking to Litespeed technology U can try a2hosting too its also good orelse fpr Ngnix and Apache Server Best is Siteground

[@zpepe]

Stay away from a2 hosting. I was a turbo reseller for 5 years and they horrible support (turn around and resolution). They were great the first 2 years

[@themindpedia]

@@adityaarsharmapersonal thank you for taking the time out and sharing your experience. I too am happy with their customer service. Take care, stay safe ♥️

[@themindpedia]

@@zpepe thank you for your comment and sharing your experience. I will stay with Hostinger for now and see how it comes up. I have already paid for 4 years 😅. Take care and stay safe ♥️

[@digitalvaidhya]

Hello, There is any way to use taxes only on addons not on product in woocommerce?

[@shaik4163]

Excellent video, Thanks a ton! One question, I didnt find the max limit of visitors for any of shared plans. For most of other hosting providers, it is about 100K visitors per month. Do you know whats that limit for hostinger?

[@adityaarsharmapersonal]

there isn't any Traffic limit its Unmetered with Hostinger so you can enjoy Good Amount of Traffic But if you see a continuous good Amount of traffic then do Update your Hosting plan for Better Site Load Speed

[@ClickyKitsune]

Hi, Can we use Image Optimization feature with SMUSH plugin? Or Should I deactivate SMUSH?

[@craigbeaman9264]

Good question! I wonder the same thing! Adam, what say you?

[@oqba]

Thanks Adam, I'm also using Litespeed cache with Hostinger (perfect hpanel) I have a fast website.

[@collectiveunconscious3d]

I've been looking everywhere but hooooow do you exclude for example newsletter sign up forms from caching? I had issues on mobile, where the signup gave errors.

[@muhamadfaizazmi6683]

Hello, I'm using hostinger. I follow your instruction on PHP config. When i click the PHP ext, there are no redis. Only got memcached. So what i need to do?

[@paulhoff1780]

D'oh, did everything in here and it raised the Large Contentful Paint from 1.8 secs to 2.7, do i just go back and reverse everything?

[@ravenchan4988]

'm using siteground with wp-rocket to do the caching, how is wp-rocket compare with litespeed cache?

[@Faisalkhamis1177]

Thanks Adam for the video. How do you compare Litespeed with WP Rocket?

[@adityaarsharmapersonal]

We cant Compare Litespeed and Wp rocket since Both are Designed for Different server and they Both Perform Best on there respective servers. But still there are Many Comparison which show that Litespeed can handle masa data packets in better ways

[@Colyz93]

get_refreshed_fragments and ajax takes too long to load any ideas?

[@thebitcoinnetworks7734]

i have a question, when you set up litespeed cache, in object, you say you use redis instead of memcached, so we dont have to check in php memcached if using redis , right ?

[@Phant0m1rg7]

im concerned about images after optimization will it change the title of the image

[@nisamashras]

after setup same like this, page speed increased, tnx..but Accordion not opening/collapsing..what to do ? pls help

[@inspector-tech]

Hi Adam. Would you recommend using Litespeed caching on an e-Commerce website?

[@WPCrafter]

Yes I would.

[@MerlinFXOnlineWizard]

Thanks Adam! Can file types Eg: pdf be excluded from caching?

[@adityaarsharmapersonal]

Yes Under Media File Copy the Link of the Pdf and Paste it in the excludes tab. It will remove the Pdf from being Optimjzed

[@behthiansu]

Not sure if it is only me, but I get page error for hostinger link. Not Found The requested URL was not found on this server.

[@cristel1114]

Could I kindly ask, the image optimization will it contradict smush and a3 lazy load? Can I keep them all or choose one?

[@virtumind]

hostinger disabled memcached and redis for shared hosting they want us to pay more for vps

[@growwleaf]

Hi, How to do Serve images in next-gen formats with the help of LIght speed Cache?

[@mdashfakfaysal]

That is the Image Optimization Settings he showed. Turn on the Webp format options (both of them) along with the other options, the next-gen format means the webp format.

[@tahaamine]

My Situation: From what I understood, if I use LiteSpeed Cache, it should be enough, and I won't need any other plugin for Caching. So after changing my hosting to a server that uses LiteSpeed Caching, and following all the instructions in the video, I went on and deleted Autoptimize from my website... But then after re-testing with both GT-Metrix and Pingdom, I find out that the number of requests went up (from around 40 initially to around 60 now). My Question(s): Is LiteSpeed Caching supposed to be enough alone? Can I delete Autoptimize if using LSCache? Can keeping multiple caching plugins cause some issues with my Website? Thanks a lot for the videos, and especially for your honesty when reviewing plugins, themes, etc... (also, I rarely like videos on YT for some reason, but somehow you convinced me to "smash the like button" on this one lol) Many Thanks!

[@AyDeeSandra]

Yes, you should use only one caching plugin. You should retweak your litespeed (every website should have settings unique to it).

[@nzlotrfan]

Hi Taha, I'm in your exast same situation. What did you end up doing in the end?

[@SebasVallejo]

Should we use Litespeed Cache and WP Rocket together?

[@as8crew74]

Hey, I turned off the generate critical CSS, however, it is still showing that funky thing whens someone visits. Any help?

[@chiragkhemani553]

How to increase the limit of image optimization ?

[@bizstamps]

Hi Adam, just wondering if the LiteSpeed would work on A2 hosting at all? I have contacted them and they are saying that "I would need the Turbo reseller hosting plan in order to have Litespeed web server access." they also say that, "it will only work on Turbo Max or Turbo Boost hosting plans, so you would have to change to the Turbo Reseller plan to be able to use it.". In the meantime I have WP Rocket + Cloudflare Free CDN, would you still recommend changing it to BunnyCDN without LiteSpeed please? Or choosing another hosting is my best bet?

[@WPCrafter]

It’s their higher plans unfortunately.

[@bizstamps]

@@WPCrafter Hey Adam, In the meantime I have WP Rocket + Cloudflare Free CDN, would you still recommend changing it to BunnyCDN without LiteSpeed please? Or choosing another hosting is my best bet?

[@Whales_CNC]

Hi, can I optimize my hosting with bluehost?