AEH Speed Optimization vs Seraphinite Accelerator

AEH Speed Optimization boosts site speed with caching, minification, lazy loading, and image optimization to improve performance and SEO. Advantages 1) Serves static assets with an efficient cache policy helps to leverage browser caching. 2) Reduces page loading time of website. 3) Improves user experience as page loads very quickly than before. 4) Decreases total data-size of page. 5) Larger band of predefined file types are covered so it will increase bandwidth of files which can have expiry headers. 6) You can have different expire time for cache base on type of resources. 7) Merge multiple CSS files into one helps reducing http requests and improving page load speed. 8) Async loading of processed CSS files. 9) Minify CSS files which reduce data transfer requirement hence increase page load speed. 10) Inline small footer CSS files which helps to improve page speed. 11) Escape admin users from minification to avoid page builders related issues. 12) Lazy loading support for images, iframes, and videos. 13) Widgets and shortcodes can also be lazy loaded. 14) Lazy loading fully supports responsive images for better performance across devices. 15) Custom placeholder images can be used during lazy loading. 16) Exclude critical elements from lazy loading to ensure essential visuals load immediately. Pro Features 1) Ability to add expires headers to External Resources 2) Adding new file types for adding expires headers 3) Refresh cache periodically 4) Unset Entity Tags 5) HTTP(Gzip) compression 6) Prevent Specific files from caching 7) Removing version info from files 8) Inline google fonts helps to load page faster and reduce external http requests. 9) Merge multiple JS files into one helps reducing http requests and improving page load speed. 10) Minify JS files which reduce data transfer requirement hence increase page load speed. 11) Plugin offers Defer scripts option to speed up rendering process. 12) HTML minification helps to reduce overall data size of page. 13) Automatically convert images to optimized formats like WebP or AVIF for faster delivery without manual effort. 14) Smartly resize and serve images based on screen size and device type to minimize bandwidth and boost speed. 15) Support next-gen formats like WebP and AVIF for superior compression, smaller files, and sharper visuals. 16) Track image optimization stats, savings, and performance improvements directly from your WordPress dashboard. 17) Automatically deliver the perfect image size for every device, ensuring crisp visuals and smooth performance. 18) Optimize images without visible loss in clarity—maintaining pixel perfection while reducing file size. 19) Works out-of-the-box with WordPress and major themes or plugins, no setup hassles or coding required. Documentation For Plugin documentation, please refer our plugin website. Requirements 1) Make sure that the “mod_expires” module is enabled on your website hosting server. 2) It is necessary to have read/write permission of .htaccess file to plugin. If not then update file permissions accordingly. 3) check status page of plugin for more info. Usage To use this plugin do the following: 1) Firstly activate Plugin. 2) Go to plugin settings page. 3) Check Files types you want to have expires headers and also add respective expires days for mime type using input box and make sure you enable respective mime type, for which group of files you want to add expires headers. 4) Once you hit “submit” button all options you selected in settings page saved database of website and accordingly .htaccess file will updated and add expires headers for respective selected files. 5) For Minification check respective settings at Minification Tab of plugin settings page. 6) For Lazy Loading check respective settings at Lazy Loading Tab of plugin settings page.

Turns on site high speed to be attractive for people and search engines. See more how to use it. TO USE FREE ADDITIONAL FEATURES PLEASE INSTALL THE FREE EXTENDED PLUGIN VERSION BY FOLLOWING ONSCREEN PLUGIN’S INSTRUCTIONS. We kindly ask you to post reviews to share experience about your site speed – it helps improving the plugin. Features Fastest cache engine A high-performance file cache engine works as fast as possible on your site. High load tolerance Cache revalidation uses minimum resources. Security User cached sessions are protected from brute force attacks. Optimization plugins compatibility Many 3rd party optimization plugins can be used. Various range of encoding GZip, Deflate, Compress, Brotli, Uncompressed are supported. Cache data compression Decreases storage data occupation. Browser cache Leverage browser caching via .htaccess to reduce server load. Caching separation Data is different for various devices and environments. No site registration and quoting There is no any site registration and no time or page count quota. Free additional features Multiple CDN Rearrange balance on multiple CDNs to be faster and decrease costs. Lazy revalidation Pages speed is always highest even while content updating. Cache storage space optimization The same parts are stored uniquely, which significantly saves space. Users cache Smart caching of user’ dependent pages like shop cart, online courses, etc. HTML error-correcting and checking Managing unescaped scripts, misplaced and lost tags. Content size optimization Minification of Java-scripts, styles (CSS), HTML. Media load optimization Lazy loading of images, video, frames, fonts. Scripts load optimization Java-scripts and styles (CSS) lazy loading, inlining, and deferring. Premium features Remote optimization Optimization can be performed remotely on our cloud servers. Includes CPU seconds: 1000/hour, 10000/day and 300000/month. No page views limits There is no limit of 5000 page views per month. In free version after reaching that limit the product will just cache pages without optimization. No banner There is no banner at the bottom of the site. No promotions No promotions of other related plugins. Support Personal prioritized support (3 hour per site). Additional support is for 30 EUR per hour. All issues due to product are always fixed for free. More details. Requirements WordPress 4.5 or higher. PHP 7.1 or higher. Browser (Google Chrome, Firefox, IE). Compatibility Google Tag Manager for WordPress 1.11 or higher. Facebook for WordPress 3.0 or higher. Site Kit by Google – Analytics, Search Console, AdSense, Speed 1.30 or higher. Realbig For WordPress 0.3 or higher. Yandex Metrica 1.8 or higher. JivoChat Live Chat 1.3 or higher. EWWW Image Optimizer 6.0 or higher. Smush – Lazy Load Images, Optimize & Compress Images 3.8 or higher. reSmush.it : the only free Image Optimizer & compress plugin 0.4 or higher. Image optimization & Lazy Load by Optimole 3.1 or higher. WooCommerce 3.5 or higher. WooCommerce Subscriptions 2.4 or higher. LMS by LifterLMS 4.0 or higher. WP-Recall – Registration, Profile, Commerce & More 16.26 or higher. WordPress Social Login 3.0 or higher. AMP for WP – Accelerated Mobile Pages 1.0 or higher, but pages’ speed is not guaranteed due to this plugin already optimizes content. Jetpack – WP Security, Backup, Speed, & Growth 9.7 or higher. All in One SEO Pack 4.0 or higher. Yoast SEO 16.0 or higher. Rank Math SEO 1.0 or higher. WPML 4.0 or higher. PolyLang 1.8 or higher. Multiple Domain 1.0 or higher. Seraphinite Post .DOCX Source 2.0 or higher. Seraphinite Bulk Discounts for WooCommerce 2.0 or higher. Webinoly 1.14 or higher. ISPmanager 6.0 or higher. Smart Slider 3 3.4 or higher. Revolution Slider 6.5 or higher (partial support). Depicter Slider 1.9 or higher. Hide My WP Ghost 4.0 or higher. WP Hide & Security Enhancer 1.7 or higher. Feeds for YouTube 1.4 or higher. VillaTheme WooCommerce Multi Currency 2.1 or higher. Permalink Manager 2.2 or higher. Airtech Plumber HVAC and Repair theme 1.6 or higher. Porto theme 6.2 or higher. FlatSome theme 3.0 or higher. Slideshow of UIkit 3.14 or higher. Nginx Cache Controller 3.3 or higher. Nginx Cache 1.0 or higher. Nginx Helper 2.2 or higher. Cloudflare 4.9 or higher. Newspaper (tagDiv) theme 11.3 or higher. Image Comparison Widget of ElementsKit. Carousel of Happy Elementor Addons. Qi Addons For Elementor theme 1.6 or higher. Photonic Photo Gallery 2.80 or higher. WooCommerce – 1C Data Exchange 1.115 or higher. Scrollsequence – Cinematic Scroll Image Animation 1.3.0 or higher. GDPR Cookie Consent Plugin (CCPA Ready) 2.4 or higher. Tag Groups is the Advanced Way to Display Your Taxonomy Terms 2.0 or higher.