Breeze – WordPress Cache Plugin: Breakdown
Breeze is a free WordPress caching plugin created and maintained by the team behind Cloudways, one of the world’s leading managed cloud hosting providers. This plugin has quickly become one of the more popular caching solutions for WordPress, and for good reason. It is incredibly user-friendly – Breeze has a straightforward and intuitive interface that is easy to configure for beginners – and its caching features are both comprehensive and powerful.
Breeze can improve the speed of a website by optimizing a range of components. It can reduce the size of HTML, JavaScript and CSS files, clean up the database, and eliminate query string variables. On top of that, there is also the option to enable Gzip compression, browser caching, and minify HTML, CSS and JavaScript files.
Furthermore, Breeze can also aid in the overall performance of a website by enabling lazy loading for images and other content. This feature allows content to be loaded on demand as the page is scrolled. It also features a host of other optimizations such as DNS pre-fetching, HTML & CSS minification, JavaScript minification and more.
Finally, Breeze offers excellent control over caching – it can be used to control post types, categories and URLs. Users can also define specific rules for individual pages or posts that determine how and when those pages should be cached.