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Speed Test of Swift Performance Lite plugin

The Swift Performance Lite caching plugin was tested 36 times to gauge its effect on site speed. It was tested with SiteGround’s Static Cache running in the background, while the control had only SiteGround’s Static Cache running.

Methods

Each test was performed using Pingdom.com’s Website Speed Test, using the San Jose, California location option. Each test was conducted with the HTTP URL rather than the HTTPS URL.

In all, 9 tests were run each day for 4 days. Load time results were recorded, and averaged at the end of the study.

Results

The following HTML table was generated by the Tableizer Excel to HTML conversion site:

Site Load Speed With & Without Swift Performance Lite caching plugin

Date Time Load Time of Control (sec) Load Time with Swift Performance Lite (sec)
8/27/2018 16:05 1.340 0.886
1.410 0.890
1.440 0.837
18:36 1.360 0.849
1.340 0.852
1.420 1.070
20:48 1.310 0.986
1.440 1.080
1.410 1.060
8/28/2018 10:14 1.510 0.914
1.460 0.793
1.440 0.927
17:02 1.370 0.941
1.450 1.090
1.300 0.932
20:14 1.290 1.110
1.250 0.953
1.250 1.220
8/29/2018 17:07 1.400 0.923
1.250 1.010
1.240 1.030
20:41 1.280 0.939
1.250 1.080
1.450 1.010
23:00 1.580 0.927
1.280 1.210
1.220 1.100
8/30/2018 16:53 1.390 1.040
1.290 0.940
1.260 1.030
20:12 1.360 1.110
1.270 0.954
1.260 0.961
22:32 1.440 0.951
1.210 1.060
1.220 1.030
n 36 36
Average 1.346 0.992
Std Dev 0.094 0.100

Swift Performance Lite improved the average load speed of this WordPress installation by 0.354 seconds when SiteGround’s Static Cache was running in the background (0.992 sec vs 1.346 sec).

Conclusions

The Swift Performance Lite plugin will be used on Ancient Greek Keyboard due to its enhancement of page load speed.


Other posts in this series:

  1. Siteground Speed Test (With & Without Static Caching)
  2. Speed Test of Swift Performance Lite plugin
  3. Caching Plugin Speed Tests: Swift Performance Lite vs. W3 Total Cache
  4. Speed Test: W3 Total Cache With Autoptimize
  5. Speed Test of WP-Rocket plugin (default settings)
  6. Speed Test of WP-Rocket plugin (additional settings)
  7. WP Rocket Speed Test (with & without SiteGround Static Caching)
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