We created WP Rocket in 2013. A little over 3 years later, we are happy to announce that more than 200,000 WordPress websites are running with WP Rocket on board!<\/p>\n
Here\u2019s what we learned on our way to speeding up so many websites:<\/p>\n
When we entered the market, the main WordPress caching solutions were free plugins. Why would people pay for something that\u2019s already free? Well, it turns out that customers aren\u2019t looking for free at all costs. Someone told us recently that we had a knack for finding great solutions to what people need.<\/p>\n
The lesson we learned building WP Rocket is that you can do good and still make money. No shame in that. Today, we are at version 2.9.7. of our plugin and keep improving every day. 6 months ago we wrote a blog post to celebrate our 3 year anniversary<\/a>. In it we were celebrating our 100,000 sites using WP Rocket milestone.<\/p>\n A little more than 6 months later, we doubled the number of websites that have WP Rocket installed. 16,000 WordPress websites install WP Rocket per month.<\/p>\n We\u2019ve achieved these incredible milestones while maintaining our core company values. We still get up every morning with the objective to help make the web better, faster and safer.<\/p>\n The WordPress community is the lifeblood of our company. We are very lucky to have the support of many talented individuals throughout the world. Without people, our plugin could be the best out there, it wouldn\u2019t really matter.<\/p>\n Still, if you want to talk about humans and performance, Chris Lema gave us one of the best endorsements we could get:<\/p>\n When it comes to performance WP Rocket beats virtually all of the competition<\/p><\/blockquote>\n WP Rocket is about performance; however we have a people first approach. We pay great attention to constantly improving the user\u2019s experience. By user, we mean enabling website visitors to enjoy faster websites but also enabling website owners to speed up their website in a few clicks. WordPress caching isn\u2019t open heart surgery so we aim to simplify this entire process for our customers!<\/p>\n User experience means a good plugin great documentation but also a solid support team. Our support team is something we wouldn\u2019t trade for anything in the world. Our rocketeers<\/a> are just plain awesome humans!<\/p>\n Google PageSpeed does not always measure the speed of your site. This helped us explain load times and performance to customers. He was able to test some really popular themes and to see how users could improve their performance by customizing their WP Rocket settings.<\/p>\n Check out his series on:<\/p>\n2. Nothing can replace human contact<\/h2>\n
3. A perfect score in Google Page Speed doesn\u2019t always mean your website is fast.<\/h2>\n
\nSome WordPress themes are naturally faster than others
\nMarko Nikolic, another one of our support engineers brought into light WordPress theme performance.<\/p>\n