Speed Up Your Website with Our Global Edge Cache – WordPress.com Updates

Irrespective of your website’s objectives, prioritizing speed and efficiency is paramount. The ultimate goal is to ensure your website is fast and easily accessible to visitors, regardless of their location worldwide.

WordPress.com’s Global Edge Cache (pronounced as “cash”) significantly accelerates your site’s loading time for visitors globally, leveraging our extensive network of data centers. This feature is automatically activated for Free, Personal, and Premium sites. For Business and Commerce sites, you now have the ability to manage Global Edge Cache settings via the “Hosting Configuration” page.

Understanding Global Edge Caching

Consider your website hosted in Amsterdam, and a visitor from Cape Town seeks to access it. Traditionally, the visitor’s request would travel halfway around the world and back, resulting in the site loading on their device.

However, with our Global Edge Cache implementation, the request only needs to travel to Johannesburg and back, saving the visitor valuable milliseconds. While seemingly minor, every millisecond matters in the online experience.

In essence, enabling this caching feature brings your content closer to your visitors, ensuring faster load times, reduced waiting, and an overall improved experience. A satisfied visitor is more likely to become a loyal customer or follower.

Speed up Your Site in Three Simple Steps

The WordPress.com Global Edge Cache is always active for Free, Personal, and Premium plans. On Business or Commerce sites, you can enable Global Edge Cache through the Hosting Configuration page. Here’s how:

1. From your dashboard, navigate to Settings → Hosting Configuration.
2. Scroll down to the “Cache” module.
3. Toggle on “Enable global edge caching for faster content delivery.”

Once you’ve toggled the switch, you’re all set!

Build Your Future on WordPress.com

Many hosting providers charge extra for edge caching or require integration with third-party providers. At WordPress.com, global edge caching is inclusive in every plan, without bandwidth restrictions.

This is just one more reason why WordPress.com stands out as the premier managed WordPress host. Whether it’s staging sites, SSH and WP-CLI access, or unified site management, we are continually developing tools to make WordPress.com an indispensable part of your development workflow.

What other features would you like to see? How can we enhance WordPress.com as a more potent platform for building websites? Feel free to leave a comment or contact our friendly support team. Stay updated with our development blog for the latest improvements.