FastPixel Cache – Optimize Page Speed vs Fresh Forms for Gravity

🚀 The Ultimate Caching and Speed Improvement Plugin for WordPress Have you ever wished your website scored 90+ on Google PageSpeed Insights, GTMetrix and other website performance analysis tools? And achieve that without the need to pay expensive fees to consultants or learn a lot of advanced technical stuff? ⚡ FastPixel automatically integrates all the latest technical enhancements, such as Page Caching, HTML/CSS/JS minification, DNS prefetching and preloading, Critical CSS, ShortPixel’s Smart Image Optimization, adaptive images, background image scaling and optimization, HTTP/2 support, fonts loading optimization, caching, a global CDN, and Core Web Vitals, within an easy-to-use, 1-minute-setup interface. 🎬 Ready for a Quick TEST of our Speed Optimization Tool? There is no need to install our plugin to run a test. You can test FastPixel live on a sandbox website at TasteWP or you can quickly assess how FastPixel can optimize your website by conducting a test. Simply use this test page, and we will apply all optimizations to a copy of your website. This way, you can easily evaluate the substantial speed improvements it can achieve using the most widely recognized website performance analysis tools. 🆕 New! Object Cache – Now Available! You can now connect FastPixel to your Redis or Memcached server and let our plugin handle the rest. Object caching stores the results of database queries in memory, so WordPress skips repetitive work on every page load, meaning faster pages and less load on your server. No configuration needed. Just connect and go. – No need for additional plugins – Tuned for WooCommerce compatibility – Built for maximum performance with the same resources – Smart cache prefetching – Fully compliant with WordPress – Improved efficiency with simple settings and defaults – Encrypted communication 💡 Why choose FastPixel Caching plugin? Website Performance Boost: Just activate the plugin and within seconds the optimized webpages will start to be served. Lower the CPU/RAM Impact: Using the plugin will reduce the impact on the resources used by your website. All the CPU intensive processing is done in the cloud and resulting pages will generally be served from a cached version and the optimized images from the CDN. Automated Core Web Vitals Optimization: FastPixel takes care of all technical aspects automatically. Smart Cache Warmup/Update: The cache warmup and update are taken care of automatically in a smart way. Pages are cached as they are visited and also updated if you update the content. Critical CSS: CCSS is automatically generated for each page for lightning-fast page loads. CSS/JS Processing: CSS/JS files are combined and also minified and compressed before they are served from our CDN. HTML Optimization: A single, highly optimized HTML file is generated, adaptively serving the ideal webpage based on the visitor’s viewport or device (e.g., mobile, tablet, laptop). DNS Preconnects: Accelerates resource fetching, reduces the access time to external resources. Font Processing: All the techniques to accelerate the processing and delivery of fonts are employed, e.g. font subsetting, font loading control, font compression, font embedding (lower CLS result). Image Resizing & Optimization: Images are automatically resized to fit their placeholders, optimized, and delivered through the ShortPixel CDN. Automatic Next-Gen Images Delivery: Based on the visitor’s browser capabilities, original JPG, PNG, or GIF images are converted to and served as WebP or AVIF when supported. For browsers without support, the original format is provided. 🌟 Happy users that use our plugin If you’re satisfied with the test, just search for “FastPixel” in your WordPress Dashboard > Plugins, install the plugin and see for yourself how much faster your site becomes. Testimonials: ★★★★★ It’s as fast as it says in the title! liquidsnake2021 ★★★★★ I was a tester and now I`m a happy user jppl ★★★★★ This plugin’s fast and easy to set up—I barely have to configure anything fajrisp ★★★★★ Works really well! touto ★★★★★ One of the best tools! torsten3d ★★★★★ Super easy to install and worked out of the box diffler more testimonials 📩 Additional questions If you have more questions, technical or otherwise, please refer to our FAQ section below, our docs or contact us. We typically respond within 15 minutes. Hooks FastPixel provides WordPress action hooks that allow developers to programmatically trigger cache purges and react to cache events. This is useful when integrating FastPixel with custom plugins, WooCommerce, ACF, or any workflow that modifies content outside the standard WordPress editor. Example hooks: do_action(‘fastpixel/purge/all’); – Purges the entire site cache. do_action(‘fastpixel/purge/single’, [‘id’ => 123]); – Purges the cache for a single post, page, or taxonomy term. do_action(‘fastpixel/purge/url’, ‘https://example.com/my-landing-page/’); – Purges the cache for a specific URL. For a detailed documentation about the hooks, please see this page: https://fastpixel.io/docs/fastpixel-hooks/

Caching is great for scenarios where your post or page content it’s not changed frequently, but if you have a form embedded to which you do changes very often or you’re using dynamic code, that doesn’t run for a cached page, or using third-party solutions relaying in dynamic live data (e.g. reCAPTCHA), using caching in these cases is going to cause issues. The same applies to certain automatic JS optimizations done by caching plugins that are known to break JS execution easily. An easy solution is to configure your caching plugin or proxy to exclude the page where the form is embedded, but you need also to remember this when you create a new page or embed a new form in an existing page… This plugin will take care of the above automatically doing the following: Flush current cache on plugin activation. This is required in order to allow the next step to run. Dynamically check if there’s a Gravity Forms for any of the supported embedding methods (see below for the list). If so, it will prevent post/page from being cached by any of the supported caching plugins, browsers and CDN/Proxies. Embedding methods supported: WordPress default editor, shortcode or Gutenberg block. Content of any post type, including pages and custom posts. ACF fields of type Text, Text Area, and WYSIWYG. Disabled by default. Avada. The following elements has been proven to work: Content Boxes, “Gravity Form”, Modal, Text Block. Other elements could work too, but not tested. Beaver Builder. It will detect Gravity Forms shortcodes added to a Text Editor module. Conversational Forms add-on. It will automatically detect any form page using the conversational_form post type (requires Conversational Forms add-on 1.3.0+). Divi. It should work with any of the default modules where you can insert a GF shortcode into the content. e.g. Call To Action, Text, Tabs… Elementor. The following widgets added to the post content are supported: Shortcode, Text. Essential Addons for Elementor Gravity Forms widget. GravityKit Gravity Forms Widget for Elementor. PowerPack for Beaver Builder Gravity Forms Styler module. Ultimate Addons for Beaver Builder Gravity Forms Styler module. Ultimate Addons for Elementor By Brainstorm Force. WooCommerce Gravity Forms Product Add-ons by Lucas Stark. WPBakery Page Builder. The following elements has been proven to work: “Gravity Form”, Text Block. Other elements could work too, but not tested. WP Tools Gravity Forms Divi Module. If you’re not using any of the above embedding methods you can still use Fresh Forms with a filter to pass the ID number of the posts where you want to run Fresh forms. You can also make Fresh Forms to add a cookie when a form is detected to use this cookie as a way to skip caching for hosts using Varnish based caching. Please see FAQ for more details. There’s no options page. Only the plugin version is saved to the database to be able to handle actions after an update when needed, no other data is stored. It should work with any caching plugin with support for DONOTCACHEPAGE constant, and proxies respecting the use Cache-Control HTTP header. Caching and Optimization plugins supported: Autoptimize Cache Enabler Comet Cache Hummingbird Kinsta Cache LiteSpeed Cache Page Optimize (Script concatenation only) Perfmatters (Delay JS exclusions only) Speed Optimizer (by SiteGround, the plugin with more name changes in the history of WordPress!) Surge W3 Total Cache WP Engine System WP Fastest Cache WP Optimize WP Rocket WP Super Cache Caching plugins NOT supported: Breeze. It doesn’t support DONOTCACHEPAGE constant or filters to skip caching. Check FAQ for a workaround. NitroPack. It doesn’t support DONOTCACHEPAGE constant or filters to skip caching. Check FAQ for a workaround. Cloudflare and other CDN/proxies: This plugin will add appropriate HTTP header to pages with a Gravity Forms form to exlude the page HTML from caching when the web host setup allows it. By default Cloudflare doesn’t cache the page HTML, it does only when you have configured it to “Cache Everything”. In this case, after activating the plugin, you need to purge cache in your Cloudflare account or wait for cache expiration to let Cloudflare know the page must be excluded from caching. Certain hosts like WP Engine and Kinsta don’t allow HTTP headers modification from WordPress side of things, therefore Cloudflare support will not work for these hosts. Other proxy services should work in a similar way, but I don’t have access to test any other proxy service. Feel to reach me if you want to provide me access to add support for your proxy service (documentation for the proxy would be required). Note for these cases (caching is done by an external service), Fresh Forms can just include the HTTP header when your web host allows it. Once the header is added, it’s up to the CDN/proxy being used to obey the header and skip caching for the page. Requirements PHP 7.0 or higher. WordPress 4.9 or higher. Gravity Forms 2.3 or higher. Only forms embedded using classic editor shortcode or Gutenberg block are supported. Usage Just install and activate. No settings required except for ACF support (see FAQ).