by BoldGrid
4.4 (5,412 reviews)
W3 Total Cache
Search Engine (SEO) & Performance Optimization (WPO) via caching. Integrated caching: CDN, Page, Minify, Object, Fragment, Database support.
Compatible with WP 6.9
v2.9.1
Current Version v2.9.1
Updated 4 days ago
Last Update on 16 Jan, 2026
Synced 15 hours ago
Last Synced on
Rank
#39
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Active Installs
1M+
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KW Avg Position
110
+0.5 better
Downloads
61.5M
+3,010 today
Support Resolved
67%
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Rating
88%
Review 4.4 out of 5
4.4
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- Version
- 2.9.1
- Last Updated
- Jan 16, 2026
- Requires WP
- 5.3+
- Tested Up To
- 6.9
- PHP Version
- 7.2.5 or higher
- Author
- BoldGrid
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- Reviews
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Frequently Asked Questions
Common questions about W3 Total Cache
Search engines like Google, measure and factor in the speed of web sites in their ranking algorithm. When they recommend a site they want to make sure users find what they're looking for quickly. So in effect you and Google should have the same objective. Speed is among the most significant success factors web sites face. In fact, your site's speed directly affects your income (revenue) — it's a fact. Some high traffic sites conducted research and uncovered the following: Google.com: +500 ms (speed decrease) -> -20% traffic loss [1] Yahoo.com: +400 ms (speed decrease) -> -5-9% full-page traffic loss (visitor left before the page finished loading) [2] Amazon.com: +100 ms (speed decrease) -> -1% sales loss [1] A thousandth of a second is not a long time, yet the impact is quite significant. Even if you're not a large company (or just hope to become one), a loss is still a loss. W3 Total Cache is your solution for faster websites, happier visitors and better results. Many of the other consequences of poor performance were discovered more than a decade ago: Lower perceived credibility (Fogg et al. 2001) Lower perceived quality (Bouch, Kuchinsky, and Bhatti 2000) Increased user frustration (Ceaparu et al. 2004) Increased blood pressure (Scheirer et al. 2002) Reduced flow rates (Novak, Hoffman, and Yung 200) Reduced conversion rates (Akamai 2007) Increased exit rates (Nielsen 2000)
There are a number of resources that have been documenting the role of performance in success on the web, W3 Total Cache exists to give you a framework to tune your application or site without having to do years of research.
It's a complete framework. Most cache plugins available do a great job at achieving a couple of performance gains. Total Cache is different because it remedies numerous performance reducing aspects of any web site. It goes farther than the basics, beyond merely reducing CPU usage (load) or bandwidth consumption for HTML pages. Equally important, the plugin requires no theme modifications, modifications to your .htaccess (mod_rewrite rules) or programming compromises to get started. Most importantly, it's the only plugin designed to optimize all practical hosting environments small or large. The options are many and setup is easy.
Rarely do readers take the time to complain. They typically just stop browsing earlier than you'd prefer and may not return altogether. This is the only plugin specifically designed to make sure that all aspects of your site are as fast as possible. Google is placing more emphasis on the speed of a site as a factor in rankings; this plugin helps with that too. It's in every web site owner's best interest is to make sure that the performance of your site is not hindering its success.
To use all features in the suite, a minimum of version WordPress 5.3 with PHP 7.2.5 is required. Earlier versions will benefit from our Media Library Importer to get them back on the upgrade path and into a CDN of their choosing.
Great question. W3 Total Cache uses several open source tools to attempt to combine and optimize CSS, JavaScript and HTML etc. Unfortunately some trial and error is required on the part of developers is required to make sure that their code can be successfully minified with the various libraries W3 Total Cache supports. Even still, if developers do test their code thoroughly, they cannot be sure that interoperability with other code your site may have. This fault does not lie with any single party here, because there are thousands of plugins and theme combinations that a given site can have, there are millions of possible combinations of CSS, JavaScript etc. A good rule of thumb is to try auto mode, work with a developer to identify the code that is not compatible and start with combine only mode (the safest optimization) and increase the optimization to the point just before functionality (JavaScript) or user interface / layout (CSS) breaks in your site. We're always working to make this more simple and straight forward in future releases, but this is not an undertaking we can realize on our own. When you find a plugin, theme or file that is not compatible with minification reach out to the developer and ask them either to provide a minified version with their distribution or otherwise make sure their code is minification-friendly.
On the contrary, as with any other action a user can perform on a site, faster performance will encourage more of it. The cache is so quickly rebuilt in memory that it's no trouble to show visitors the most current version of a post that's experiencing Digg, Slashdot, Drudge Report, Yahoo Buzz or Twitter effect.
No, on the contrary if you use the minify settings you will improve their performance by several times.
Indeed it does.
Yes.