Excellent WP caching plugin

Andreas

Hey everyone.

I wanted to share an amazing caching plugin that was suggested to me. I did some testing on it and it has been amazing. The plugin is called Surge (https://wordpress.org/plugins/surge/)

I like to use loader.io to do performance testing.
So far I have found litespeed/OpenLitespeed with Litespeed cache always perform amazing.
I have not been able to find anything for Apache until Surge.

On Loader.io, I set up 10,000 clients for 1 minute, and the server barely broke a sweat. Any other plugin I do that on, it fails, fast and hard.

Here is apache with Cache enabler results. https://prnt.sc/nI3GfQvpcwpB
Here is apache with Surge https://prnt.sc/s3C4ZnQaYQuQ

So I wanted to share this here with you guys.

JohnB

Did you warmup the cache before testing? For example if the page didn't have a cached static version, the plugin would have to generate it on the first loader request. Suddenly getting 100 requests can overload it. The min being 4.5 seconds implies its missing the cache and waiting on PHP.

Andreas

JohnB

Hey John. To be honest, when i did the test on loader.io, I already had it cached at that point.
I would have accessed the site myself, and ran GT metrix on it as well.

I am going to assume, if I cleared the cache, and ran it again right away, I would get very similar results overall.

What I like about this plugin,.

very comparable to the other top plugins in general performance
very light weight - no options. You turn it on and that's it.
it can handle all these hits at once. Where numerous other plugins I have tested, all fail at this.

Any other feedback or suggestions, im all ears.