Litespeed web server is developed by Litespeed technologies, Litespeed web server was the 4th most popular web server and it is used by 10% of the websites. This Litespeed web server was the same configuration as the Apache HTTP server.
Litespeed is compatible with commonly used Apache features like .htaccess, mod security, mod-rewrite. Litespeed web server replaces all Apache functions but uses an approach to handle the request.
Creating a website with high performance is a crucial thing, To ensure the high performance and smooth process of user experience the server configuration should be good, a few of them are listed below
Server Infrastructure (CPU cores, RAM, SATA/SSD)
CDN
Images/videos in (webp or Jpeg2000)
Object caching
Opcode caching
Reduced DOM
Browser side cache
Using AMP pages for mobile.
WP Engine has rigid compatibility with the optimization plugins like W3 Total Cache or WP Rocket which might not work well with WP Engine.
Litespeed cache works well with WP Engine and the features like Lazy loading have to be set up manually.
Litespeed cache plugin:
Litespeed cache plugin has been developed by Litespeed technologies, It is highly recommended by industry experts like Google, Cpanel, Azure, and many more. It leverages HTTP3 protocol and has greater compatibility with some common Apache modules and features.
Litespeed cache comes with the following cache options
Page/Object cache
Browser cache
Minifying CSS/JS
Lazy Load
Litespeed cache can run jobs at regular intervals and it has the following settings in the plugin
Cache
TTL
Purge
Excluded
ESI
Object
Browser
Advanced
Before making the changes in the settings it is advised to check properly, Loading the CSS and JS is very risky and these settings will depend on the current theme. Third-party plugin effects may produce unexpected results.
Improvement:
Use Google page speed insights or GT Metrix to analyze the performance of the website, these reports can give you an increase of almost 50% page improvement with average FCP, speed index, LCP, Total blocking time, and cumulative layout shift in google page speed insights. Use this tool and increase the performance.
Conclusion:
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