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Over the last year I tried it several times, spent many hours on it, not once did I get better performance with the Litespeed caching plugin on a Litespeed reseller server, compared to WP Rocket (paid) or WP Fastest Cache (free).
Performance is measured with page speed tests on the one hand and subjective loading time on the other hand (just clicking through the pages in incognito mode)
So what are those magic settings in the WordPress Litespeed cache plugin (LSCWP)? What are you doing to beat the 2 minute setup of WP Fastest Cache plugin?
I am thinking if I should try it one more time, or give up for good and just stick to WP Rocket or WP Fastest
I personally believe LiteSpeed is a bit overhyped, and it’s not significantly faster than nginx, caddy, or even finetuned apache for 99% sites. I am also not a fan of the bloated LiteSpeed Cache plugin.
There can be several bottlenecks to performance, and your web server software (with server caching) is only one part of the equation. LiteSpeed won’t magically fix a terrible host with underpowered servers and congested networks.
That said, it’s certainly not slow. If I have to use LiteSpeed Cache on a site, I turn off everything except the caching functionality. It works well enough, though I really wish they would release a LiteSpeed Cache Lite plugin without all the added stuff.
Before you setup litespeed
You have to ensure you make your website correctly. Everything is optimized. Fonts are local hosted. Images and videos are optimized . Cdn is active if needed. Code is clean. No large asset loading on first half or even homepage. A well performing hosting or server . Everything is inline where possible and minimum external resources. No unnecessary plugins.
When all this is done. You’ll already be at ~80% speed on average. Depending on the site ofcourse. You start From here.
Most people forget this first half and start on an unoptimized site which is dumb.
Litespeed can be setup on advanced way or very beginner way. And it gives excellent result even with very minimum setup. . Advanced settings are more about if some code or js conflicts you can exclude it, advanced also includes including excluding specific resources, using ESI and other settings. But again, with very basic pre made settings too, you can get excellent results if your site is made properly . What’s great is that it’s free and has premium features that other paid plugins have. The only thing is it only works with litespeed server.
Comparison wise. Wp fastest cache can give you “ almost “ similar results (with pro you can inline the code too) and connect to cloudflare . The only benefit with litespeed over wpfc would be a few additional features, plus litespeed server performance combination, a cdn (quic) if you want to use, and some more include exclude and performance features.
Litespeed cache does probably the best html minify too .
Wp rocket has a lot of good features too. Again you can get similar results with both, depends on what you like.
What makes it a killer combination is to use cloudflare full page cache (either apo if you’re using non litespeed or full page cache rules if you’re using litespeed )
Make sure you update any sites you have using this plugin. CVSS 9.8
https://www.wordfence.com/blog/2024/08/over-5000000-site-owners-affected-by-critical-privilege-escalation-vulnerability-patched-in-litespeed-cache-plugin/
On the LSWS our agency set up, we’re pretty much able to install Divi, Divi Pixel, do our design, add whatever plugins we need, then kick Litespeed Cache into the advanced preset, which takes literally 10 seconds to set up.
Then we crawl each page and test it, it really does a world of good. We were previously using WPRocket but the cost was getting out of control.
I have always used wprocket with very good results, but sometimes suffers throught cache issues and weird problems.
My new host with VPS has a functionnality with litespeed, so I will be trying it soon, hoped to find some nice tips here 🙂
I think that Literspeed is just ridiculous. Nginx is PLENTY fast. my $30/month VPS gives me about 4x as much bandwidth per second as ANY web site that I see.
I use HestiaCP. Nginx and php-fpm. I specifically do NOT install Apache2 (for production).
I fell in love with VestaCP nearly a decade ago. HestiaCP is a FORK of VestaCP. I don’t NEED to benchmark production with other servers. I’m plenty happy where I’m at
Here are some articles from 10 years ago that demostrate some of the benefits of the VestaCP / HestiaCP stack.
PLEASE whatever you do, don’t use VestaCP it is now insecure.
VestaCP Nginx Php-fpm Performance On OpenVZ VPS – ServerMom
[http://www.servermom.org/vestacp-nginx-php-fpm-performance-on-openvz-vps/3740/](http://www.servermom.org/vestacp-nginx-php-fpm-performance-on-openvz-vps/3740/)
Add a new site in Vestacp Nginx+Php-fpm+Redis server (and install WordPress) – ServerMom
[http://www.servermom.org/add-new-site-vestacp-nginxphp-fpmredis-server-install-wordpress/3705/](http://www.servermom.org/add-new-site-vestacp-nginxphp-fpmredis-server-install-wordpress/3705/)
How to Install Vestacp Nginx LEMP Stack with Redis Caching on Ubuntu – ServerMom
[http://www.servermom.org/install-nginx-lemp-stack-redis-caching-ubuntu/3689/](http://www.servermom.org/install-nginx-lemp-stack-redis-caching-ubuntu/3689/)
VestaCP Performance on OpenVZ VPS – A Short Review – ServerMom
[http://www.servermom.org/vestacp-performance-openvz-vps/3649/](http://www.servermom.org/vestacp-performance-openvz-vps/3649/)