Page speed is an important factor for how visitors perceive your website as well as being important for SEO since the major search engines uses page speed as a part of their ranking algorithms.
Magento is a flexible eCommerce solution but this also makes it resource intensive which in turn can translate to a slow loading website especially when you have many products and the visitor number starts to get high.
One of the best ways of making it faster is to add in a Magento full page cache extension.
The full page cache extensions work by saving a copy of your websites pages in a cache, then the next time someone visits that page it is fetched from the cache instead of being generated in real time by Magento.
This greatly increases the speed of the website and reduces the the needed server/hosting resources needed to run the website, which in turn also allows your website to server more visitors at the same time with usable speed.
In this article we will list some of the best Magento full page cache extensions, both free and commercial ones.
Full Page Cache by Amasty
Easy to use full page cache with advanced settings that also include cache statistics and an advanced cache crawler.
It supports multi-store, mobile themes and different customer groups and has flexible setting for pages/block cache exclusion/inclusion, cache lifetime, auto refresh actions, cache crawler schedules.
This page cache can also be set to cache all pages, making the whole website experience faster.
- License: Commercial
- Open Source: Yes
Full Page Cache by Lesti
Lesti_Fpc is a simple but effective full page cache solution that supports multi-store, multi-currency, mobile-themes and different customer-groups.
It will cache cms pages, category pages and product pages and the cached pages has an expiry of 24 hours, but the cache is also automatically flushed based on admin actions like saving products, categories or cms pages.
By default its a file based cache but can be configured to use with other cachebackends like APC, Memcached and Redis.
- License: Free
- Open Source: Yes
Full Page Cache by Mirasvit
Advanced full page cache solution that significantly speeds up page load time, reduces the load on the server and improves website ranking.
This cache solution comes with a built in cache crawler/warmer, advanced statistics and supports a wide range of cache back-end solutions, mobile themes, multi-domains, multi-stores, multi-languages, multi-customer groups and more.
- License: Commercial
- Open Source: Yes
Full Page Cache by Extendware
Advanced multi level full page cache with flexible settings that supports multi-store, multi-currency, mobile-themes and catalog sorting.
It also supports multiple back-end cache types, selective cache flushing based on page type and individual store views cache flushing.
- License: Commercial
- Open Source: Yes
Magento Full Page Cache Extensions with Dependencies
The full page cache solutions mentioned above works on most server/hosting setups, but there are also Magento full page cache extensions that only work if specific server modules have been added to your server/hosting.
Magento Full Page Caches that requires Varnish cache.
The following Magento Full Page cache Extensions require that Varnish has been installed on your server/hosting. Varnish Cache is a web application accelerator/caching HTTP reverse proxy that can be installed on a web server to cache and speed up content delivery.
Magento Full Page Varnish Cache by Phoenix
Full page cache with exclusion of custom information pages, manual and automatic cache cleaning. Supports multi store views and has built in debug functionality.
The Community version comes with a OSL license, free to use and modify, and there is also a more advanced commercial Enterprise version available.
- License: Free (Community Version)
- Open Source: Yes
Magento Full Page Varnish Cache by Nexcess
Turpentine is a Varnish full page cache that has hole-punching via Varnish ESI and/or AJAX, automatic cache clearing on actions, supports multi-store/multi-site and includes a cache warmer.
- License: Free
- Open Source: Yes
Magento Full Page Caches that requires Litespeed server
The following Magento Full Page cache Extensions require that Litespeed has been installed on your server/hosting. Litespeed is a commercial web-server that is very fast and uses available server resources effectively.
Magento Full Page LiteSpeed Cache by LiteSpeed Technologies
LiteMage is a Magento full page cache for servers running Litespeed , it has ESI based hole punching, advanced settings and a cache crawler included.
It supports last viewed product statistics, product comparison, stock tracking, multi-store, multi-currency, and multi-user groups.
This is a commercial extension with a monthly fee structure, But until April 2016 its available for free for those that have a valid Litespeed license.
- License: Commercial
- Open Source: No (Ioncube decoder required)
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