My website load time is really slow. I installed the plugin that you suggest for optimization, however, the page load time is still really long.

Here is a screenshot of what pingdom.com suggests me to change: https://i.imgur.com/wXfcW0r.jpg

The problem is, I’m not sure how I can Specify an expiration at least one week in the future. Can you help me with that?

Thank you for writing.

I hope you are doing well. I’ve visited your site and seen that you have 3 different plugins for cache.

For page cache, we recommend W3 Total Cache (https://wordpress.org/plugins/w3-total-cache/), since it’s been largely tested with our themes.

Whatever it is the plugin you’re using for page cache, we recommend turning off all its file minification options for HTML, CSS and JS, and use Autoptimize instead: https://wordpress.org/plugins/autoptimize/. Here is a screenshot of our recommended configuration for Autoptimize: https://www.dropbox.com/s/l621ucr6mlpuepk/Screen%20Shot%202017-06-28%20at%2014.53.49-fullpage.png?dl=0&raw=1.

Also, you may want to take a look at this article about website performance and optimization: http://www.wpbeginner.com/wordpress-performance-speed/. It has a lot of useful information that can be relevant to your site.

Regarding specifying an expiration date, it is usually related to the plugins you are using. Would you please confirm me what plugin will you be using?

Thank you,
Juan.

I set the Autoptimize at the recommended settings.

Do you want me to also download DW total cache as well to work together with Autoptimize?

Thank you for the follow-up.

Have you activated the W3 Total Cache plugin already? Did you remove the other ones?

Best,
Juan.

Thanks for the follow-up.

I see some in the “Must-Use” plugins list. That’s why I’m asking. For example “Endurance Page Cache”.

Do you have plans to remove them? It is usually recommended to use one plugin for a certain purpose(for example caching, in this case), because if you have more than one they usually give conflicts.

Best,
Juan.

I just tried to remove them, but when I go to the “Must-Use” plugins list, it doesn’t give me an option to remove any plugins. Is there any other way to delete them?

Thanks for the follow-up.

The must use plugins can’t be removed via the admin section, these are installed over the wp-content/mu-plugins folder in your webhost. https://codex.wordpress.org/Must_Use_Plugins

Perhaps you can try with that cache plugin first instead of W3 Total Cache and see how it goes?

Best,
Juan.