Nice list. I’m loving perfmatters after using it for a few months. Just switched from using Bricks built-in lazyload to perfamtters lazyload, and PSI scores on mobile jumped from high 60s to the high 90s which is kinda wild to me.
For good managed WP hosts - I would also highly recommend Rocket.net. I think they get better performance on average compared to WP Engine, Kinsta, etc.
Yes I try Seraphinite Accelerator and the results are great but how you combine it with litespeed. My hosting also its litespeed and maybe i need it for object cache!
No, as long as your Time-To-First-Byte is much longer, due to PHP and Database being accessed for every page load - instead of directly delivering the cached HTML - caching is necessary.
This little detail is often the reason why pages load 3s for every click instead of responding immediately (e.g. Divi Sites). For similar Bricks sites it’s often just a second, which is less noticable and can be easily forgotten.
I use WPFastestCache on cheap hosting, which has no Redis/OpCache and it is blazingly fast.
I try many cache plugin and most of the time I had worse page speed!
The best plugin until now for me it’s Seraphinite Sccelerator plugin.
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