Jetpack Boost vs LWSCache — WordPress

Jetpack Boost – Website Speed, Performance and Critical CSS vs LWSCache

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Jetpack Boost – Website Speed, Performance and Critical CSS

4.7·607reviews·200,000+installs

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	Jetpack Boost – Website Speed, Performance and Critical CSS	LWSCache
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Description	3578 / 5000 chars72% used	3464 / 5000 chars69% used
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Platforms	WordPress	WordPress
Developer	Automattic	Aurélien LWS
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Jetpack Boost – Website Speed, Performance and Critical CSS

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Feature comparison between Jetpack Boost – Website Speed, Performance and Critical CSS and LWSCache
Metric	Jetpack Boost – Website Speed, Performance and Critical CSS	LWSCache
Rating	4.7 ★	★ 5.0 ★
Total reviews	★ 607	6
Active installs	200,000+	6,000+
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Jetpack Boost – Website Speed, Performance and Critical CSS

Speed up your WordPress site by optimizing page performance with Jetpack Boost. Easily activate one-click optimizations to boost your Core Web Vitals. Did you know that a faster website:- Ranks higher on Google. Improves bounce rate (people stay on your site for longer). Increases your conversion rate. Increase your website performance and speed up your website with one-click optimizations that supercharge your WordPress site’s performance and improve core web vitals scores for better search engine listings. Improving Core Web Vitals helps you rank higher on Google. A faster website also improves your SEO, helps you reduce your bounce rate and increase your ecommerce conversion rate. Largest Contentful Paint (LCP): Measures loading performance. Improve your LCP and improve your website loading speed. First Input Delay (FID): Measures interactivity. To improve user experience pages should have a low FID. Cumulative Layout Shift (CLS): Measures visual stability. Lowering your CLS helps improve your user experience. Performance Modules Optimize your website with the same techniques used on the world’s most successful websites. Each technique that is used to increase website performance is packaged up as a module that you can activate and try out. Currently, the plugin has 6 performance modules available: Optimize CSS Loading generates Critical CSS for your homepage, posts and pages. This can allow your content to show up on the screen much faster, particularly for viewers using mobile devices. Read more about critical CSS generation at web.dev Page Cache speeds up your site by saving pages as static files. These files are quickly served to visitors, reducing load times and enhancing user experience. Defer Non-Essential JavaScript moves some tasks to after the page loads, so that important visual information can be seen sooner and your website loads quicker. Read more about deferring JavaScript at web.dev Image Guide is a must-have feature for anyone who wants to optimize the images on their website. With this guide, you can ensure that the images on your site are the right size and dimensions, which is critical for improving user experience, page speed, and site ranking. Following the tips and best practices outlined in the guide, you can reduce image file sizes and speed up your site. Check out our support page to learn more about this feature and how it can help you achieve a faster and smoother website experience for your users. Image CDN allows your site to serve automatically-resized images in modern web formats directly from Jetpack’s worldwide Content Delivery Network. Read more about Image CDNs at web.dev Concatenate and Minify CSS and JS combines and shrinks your JavaScript and CSS resources to reduce the number and size of requests to your server, ensuring your content loads faster. Read more about minifying files at web.dev Don’t want to have to manually generate your critical CSS each time you update your site? Let us do the heavy lifting for you with automated critical CSS – each time you update your site we will automatically regenerate your critical CSS and update your performance scores. Upgrading also gives you dedicated email support access. With 💚 by Jetpack This is just the start! We are working hard to bring more features and improvements to Jetpack Boost. Let us know your thoughts and ideas! We’d also like to give a special THANK YOU to the XWP team who provided help with initial research and scoping of the plugin and were engaged with our team throughout the project.

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LWSCache

This plugin, created by LWS help to automatically manage your LWSCache purge when you edit your pages, post, messages… It provide a way to purge all your LWSCache. This plugin works only on servers using the LWSCache system. This cache is pre-installed with Classic shared web hosting, WordPress hosting and soon cPanel hosting from LWS. The loading speed of your site is crucial to its success. The more visitors your site has, the more RAM and CPU memory the system uses. The page is loaded slowly. So you need a cache system to avoid reloading the page when it is not necessary. In addition, the site’s page load speed is used in Google’s ranking algorithm. So caching plugins that can improve load times will improve your SEO ranking. Low rankings, and therefore insufficient exposure, often do not allow you to make a living from your website. The loading time of most websites is less than three seconds. Beyond that, many users have already left the page. The LWS Cache tool is a system designed and developed by LWS. It optimize the loading performance of your website through the use of advanced caching mechanisms, configured at the server level. The tool uses the technologies provided by NGINX. Functioning When LWS Cache is enabled, a cache server is introduced between the visitor and the web server. The aim is to reduce the number of script executions required. For that it keeps the result of the execution in memory for future requests requiring the same response. This means that the same script is no longer executed several times to achieve the same result. Thus, we eliminate the waiting time of the script execution on the page loading time. At the same time, we save the resources used during the script execution. The visitor requests the page from the web server. Example: index.php. LWS Cache checks if the page has already been generated and stored in the cache If yes, the page is returned directly to the visitor without the need to access the web service and without executing the script If not, the page is requested to be generated on the web service as a result of the script execution (PHP, NodeJS, Perl, Ruby, …). Once the page is generated, LWS Cache determines if the page can be cached (via headers, URL, …) If yes, the page is saved in the cache and returned to the visitor If not, the page is saved in the microcache (short-lived cache) and returned to the visitor Managing LWS Cache with the plugin The WordPress LWS Cache plugin allows you to automatically purge the cache of your pages when you modify them or when you add/approve comments. To manage the plugin, once connected to your WordPress administration console, go to the “Settings” menu and then “LWS Cache”. From the settings page, you can enable/disable automatic emptying. You can define when to automatically empty the LWS Cache and completely purge the cache. A button for emptying the entire cache can be found anywhere in the WordPress admin console (in the quick access bar at the top of the screen). Key Features Several settings are available to manage your LWS Cache, you can enable or disable these settings: Automatic purge Home Page Purge (when a post is modified or added, when a published post is trashed) Purge Post/Page/Custom Post Type (when a post is published, when a comment is approved/published, when a comment is unapproved/deleted) Purge Archives (date, category, tag, author, custom taxonomies) Purge all cache

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Which has better reviews, Jetpack Boost – Website Speed, Performance and Critical CSS or LWSCache?

LWSCache has the higher average rating (5.0★ from 6 reviews) compared to Jetpack Boost – Website Speed, Performance and Critical CSS (4.7★ from 607 reviews). Both are tracked daily by AppRanks, so the figures here update each refresh cycle.

Should I choose Jetpack Boost – Website Speed, Performance and Critical CSS or LWSCache?

LWSCache holds the higher average rating (5.0★ vs 4.7★). That is the one dimension AppRanks can separate them on here — read both apps' detail pages for the feature breakdown and recent listing changes.

Which is faster to set up, Jetpack Boost – Website Speed, Performance and Critical CSS or LWSCache?

Both apps are one-click installs from the WordPress Plugin Directory. Jetpack Boost – Website Speed, Performance and Critical CSS has the deeper published review base (607 vs 6), which often — though not always — accompanies better-tested setup docs. AppRanks doesn't measure setup time directly: read the recent reviews on each app's detail page for user-reported install experience.

Which works better for small vs large WordPress Plugin Directory site owners?

Jetpack Boost – Website Speed, Performance and Critical CSS typically suits early-stage and growth-mode teams based on its published review base (607 reviews). LWSCache typically suits early-stage and growth-mode teams based on its published review base (6 reviews). A larger review base generally means the app has been exercised at scale — relevant if you are processing high volume or handling enterprise compliance requirements.

Can I migrate data between Jetpack Boost – Website Speed, Performance and Critical CSS and LWSCache?

Migration support varies by app and category. Jetpack Boost – Website Speed, Performance and Critical CSS and LWSCache both publish their export options on their marketplace listing pages (or in their support docs); some apps offer one-click import from competitors, others require CSV. The fastest check: search "import from LWSCache" in each app's help center. AppRanks does not track migration tooling directly — this is a category-specific capability worth verifying before commitment.

Jetpack Boost – Website Speed, Performance and Critical CSS vs LWSCache

Jetpack Boost – Website Speed, Performance and Critical CSS

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Should I choose Jetpack Boost – Website Speed, Performance and Critical CSS or LWSCache?

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Which works better for small vs large WordPress Plugin Directory site owners?

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