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Disable LazyLoad for iframes
When the LazyLoad for iframes and videos feature causes problems to the iframes, you can opt for disabling it on specific iframes, pages or programmatically. Disable LazyLoad on specific iframes
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Page caching
When a visitor comes to your WordPress site, their browser talks to your web server which loads up WordPress – this involves PHP processing, making requests to your database, sending files back to
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Security headers are missing
If you have added security headers using PHP, they will not be added on cached pages. Once a page is cached, PHP is not executed, so the headers will not be added. Did you know? Because PHP doesn't
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Using Autoptimize with WP Rocket
WP Rocket has built-in compatibility with Autoptimize. You can use Autoptimize to minify HTML, CSS and JavaScript, and WP Rocket for page caching, images LazyLoad, Delay JavaScript execution, Remove
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Using Slider Revolution with WP Rocket
WP Rocket is compatible with the Slider Revolution plugin, but in case you have issues, you can refer to the instructions and additional information in this article. Compatibility with the Load
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Enabling white label for footprint, dashboard and RocketCDN
HTML comment footprint You can remove mention of WP Rocket in the HTML comment footprint from the source code of your site: Edit wp-config.php at the root of your WordPress installation and add this
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Using PixelYourSite with WP Rocket
This is the guide to set up PixelYourSite with WP Rocket. Pixel is not found in cached page PixelYourSite has a setting to "Disable the plugin for known web crawlers". When this is enabled, the
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Cloudflare - Recommended settings
You don't have to make any changes in the Cloudflare settings when using WP Rocket. If you want to be sure that there won't be any issues, you can either turn on the Optimal Settings option on the WP
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WP Rocket's GitHub repository
WP Rocket codebase, plans and issues are public, and can be found in the official repository on GitHub. Over there, the product team is in charge of assessing the reported issues. As a part of their
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Using WPForms with WP Rocket
WP Rocket is compatible with the WPForms plugin. However, if you're still seeing issues between both plugins, the information in this article can be handy. Using WPForms with WP Rocket's Delay
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Database optimizations are not working
This article contains information about the most common issues with the options in the Database tab, and how to solve them. Basic requirements Database optimizations require that WP-Cron is triggered
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Multiple licenses
From December 2024, you can no longer purchase multiple WP Rocket licenses under the same email address. If you have an existing license, and you wish to use WP Rocket in more sites, you can: Upgrade
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Can I run WP Rocket on localhost and staging domains?
Local and staging domains WP Rocket will work locally if you use one of the domain endings listed below, or just localhost. Local installations don’t count as sites for licensing purposes, although
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Avoid serving legacy JavaScript to modern browsers
Pagespeed has changed from Audits to Insights. For the most up-to-date info, please see our new Legacy JavaScript doc. Heads up! This is a developer-level document. You need to be one or hire one to
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Minimize main thread work
The browser’s main thread processes all the scripts and styles needed to display the web page. When it has too much work to do, the thread is blocked and this delays the page load and will make it
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Defer offscreen images
Heads up! This is an obsolete audit, which has been removed from PageSpeed after the changes in Lighthouse 13. What does Defer offscreen images mean? PageSpeed Insights makes the following
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Largest Contentful Paint
Largest Contentful Paint (LCP) is one of the Core Web Vitals. This guide will explain what it is, how to analyze your page and how to improve this metric. Overview of Largest Contentful Paint Largest
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Efficiently encode images
Google Lighthouse will scan all the JPG and PNG images of your website. The tool will process them with a compression level of 85%, and then these optimized images will be compared with your original
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My site has no styles and looks broken
If you see that your site looks broken, i.e. it loads but there is no styling as in the image below, you can do some important troubleshooting which will help us better assist you. Find out what the
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Basic requirements for RocketCDN to work
What are the requirements to work? A valid domain name. RocketCDN won’t work on a website that is currently only an IP address. As RocketCDN is a pull CDN, your site must be publicly accessible for
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Eliminate render blocking resources
Pagespeed has changed from Audits to Insights. For the most up-to-date info, please see our new Render Blocking Request doc. What does Eliminate render blocking resources mean? Before the browser can
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Reduce the impact of third party code
What is third party code? Third-party code refers to elements that are included on your website but are not hosted by you. Instead, these resources are coming from a different domain/URL. Common
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Dynamic exclusions and inclusions
All exclusions and inclusions required for compatibility, i.e. prevent WP Rocket from breaking a site's layout or functioning, are stored in WP Rocket Cloud and distributed in specific lists for
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Preload key requests
What does Preload Key Requests mean? According to PageSpeed Insights, the assets that are loaded from another file and do not contain the attribute rel=”preload” will be flagged by this
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Serve static assets with an efficient cache policy
This recommendation refers to browser caching and for how long the browser should keep your static files in its cache for better performance. As we explain in this article, browser caching is a
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Bypass WP Rocket's caching and optimizations
In this article, you will learn how to bypass WP Rocket's caching and optimizations. This is needed in the following scenarios: To check if a display issue is caused by WP Rocket or not. To speed
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cURL error 28
Have you received an error like these while validating your WP Rocket license, or after activating Load CSS Asynchronously? Error: cURL error 28: Operation timed out after x milliseconds cURL error
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Troubleshoot Delay JavaScript execution issues
In this article, you'll learn how to identify, differentiate and solve issues related to the Delay JavaScript execution feature, how to handle exclusions and some examples. Heads up! This is an
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Resolve 403 (forbidden) error
If you experience a 403 forbidden error message on your site, that usually means access to some of your files gets blocked. In most cases, this is due to an .htaccess file located in one of these
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Improve image delivery
The Improve image delivery insight highlights the various ways the file size of your images should be reduced in order to make them load much faster. This insight points out specific images with
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My site was hacked or has malware
When downloaded from the official website, WP Rocket will not introduce malware to your site. However, this article contains information about how WP Rocket interacts with a hacked site, and further
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Reduce unused JavaScript
This recommendation can be resolved by activating the WP Rocket option Delay JavaScript Execution. Although it does not technically remove the unused parts of the code from your site, the delayed
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Excluding dynamic filenames
This guide will show you how to exclude files from WP Rocket's optimizations when their filenames are dynamically changing. In this article Dynamically changing file names Excluding dynamically
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Minify JavaScript files and Combine JavaScript files
Minify JavaScript files Minification is the process of removing white space and comments from code. This makes the file size smaller, therefore faster to download. Minification alone does not reduce
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Asynchronous optimizations
WP Rocket has a few asynchronous optimizations. This means that while the optimizations are applied automatically, they are not instantaneous, and they require a series of steps (and time) before
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Rocket Insights
The Rocket Insights Add-on is available from WP Rocket 3.20 version, and it uses GTmetrix to show and monitor the performance grade of a website based on specific pages. This feature is available in
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Avoid an excessive DOM size
Pagespeed has changed from Audits to Insights. For the most up-to-date info, please see our new Optimize DOM Size doc. When a web page is loaded, the browser creates a Document Object Model (DOM) of
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Database size increases with Remove Unused CSS
Remove Unused CSS stores some information in the database, and in some scenarios, it can grow quite large. There are two tables involved in database size issues when using Remove Unused CSS: Used CSS
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Replace YouTube iframe with preview image
Definition This feature detects the presence of compatible YouTube iframes in your site, and changes their markup so that the iframe tag is replaced by an img tag containing the thumbnail that's set
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CSS changes don’t show up
In this Article Clear the Used CSS Browser caching How to bust the browser cache Unique themes - Genesis, X Theme If you are making changes to the CSS files on your site and you've cleared the WP
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Site Health Check
This article contains information about common WordPress Site Health checks, how WP Rocket can help, and how it's related to some of them. WP_CACHE is set to false The WP_CACHE is a WordPress native
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Preload cache
The Preload Cache feature emulates a visit to your site's pages to generate cache files. Since the feature is enabled by default on plugin installation, there's no need to wait until a real visitor
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How to improve your mobile PageSpeed score
It is very normal for mobile speeds to be slower, and the PageSpeed score lower, than desktop results. This guide will explain why, recommend which WP Rocket settings will have the most impact, and
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Find the best settings for your site
After you've enabled WP Rocket, the automatic features and default settings will be applied to the website, however, enabling the additional optimizations will help you get the most out of WP Rocket.
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ManageWP: how to clear and preload WP Rocket cache
You can clear and preload WP Rocket cache from your ManageWP control panel. To do it, you can use the following snippet. <?php // ManageWP PHP Snippet, will clear the cache and trigger a preload. //
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CRON and WP Rocket
This article covers all the relevant information about cron on WordPress and its relation with some WP Rocket's features, as well as instructions to set up cron job in the server, and a common issues
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Total Blocking Time and Interaction to Next Paint
Total Blocking Time (TBT) is not an actual Core Web Vital metric, but it’s important because we can measure it using tools like PageSpeed Insights or Lighthouse, unlike Interaction to Next Paint.
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Missing update notification in dashboard
After we release a new version of WP Rocket, it can take around 12 hours for the update notification to appear on your Plugins page. Sometimes you won't see the update notification for WP Rocket in
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Using WP Rocket on your ecommerce site
WP Rocket is compatible with e-commerce plugins for WordPress such as: WooCommerce BigCommerce Easy Digital Download iThemes Exchange Jigoshop WP-Shop Note: These plugins require that some specific
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Control WordPress Heartbeat API
The WordPress Heartbeat API provides a connection for real-time data transfer and syncing between the server and the browser. Examples of where the Heartbeat API is involved include: Autosave and