Getting started with WP Rocket

This article covers the overview of what WP Rocket does after installation. In addition to this, you can find the first steps you can take after installation.

What WP Rocket does upon activation

Upon activation, WP Rocket will start applying some of the optimizations in order to improve the loading time of a website, as per some of the web performance good practices.

At this stage, WP Rocket's automatic features and the default settings will be applied to the website.

Note: WP Rocket can adjust the settings when certain plugins, themes, and hosting environments are detected. Also, the settings can be modified by a third party.

Configure the additional optimizations

Once WP Rocket is activated, you can enter WP Rocket's settings page, and start enabling the additional optimizations across the tabs:

• The key and most common features are found in the File Optimization and Media tabs.
• Other features are present, for example, in the Advanced rules and Add-ons tabs.

Note: the additional optimizations can also break a website! If you notice any issues after activating one of these options, deactivate it again first, then troubleshoot.

You can also follow the Find the best settings for your site guide.

Test the speed improvements

In order to see the biggest impact that WP Rocket can have on your site, you should test the speed after the additional optimizations have been configured.

You can use different tools to test the speed of your site, but Google's PageSpeed could be seen as one of the most important ones.

In order to see the impact of WP Rocket, you would need to run two tests and compare the results, as shown here.

Note: You can also learn what to expect from PageSpeed and how to improve the score.