“W3 Total Cache” as user Agent in visitors log – regular traffic

  • Resolved AndrewLynch

    (@andrewlynch)


    6 years, 11 months ago

    Hello,

    I am hoping to get help with interpreting what I see in the logs.

    There are hundreds of records in the cPanel’ Visitors log for User Agent “W3 Total Cache” that are coming from the same IP (not me looking at it and not hosting server itself). It looks like this process is retrieving old site maps both post and pages.
    Site maps became most visited pages now. Site load charts indicates regular spikes of activities that are too regular to be caused by users. Usually User Agent column shows bot name/URL or actual details of the submitted URL request but in this case it is just “W3 Total Cache”. Do not know where this traffic is coming from and why.
    I am on the latest version of W3TC and really basic settings, no CDN.
    Hosting company suggested to change caching plug in.

    Thanks in advance,

    AL

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  • Thread Starter AndrewLynch

    (@andrewlynch)

    This download by user-agent “W3 Total Cache” it is happening every 30 mins. The only W3TC config that matches that value is “Comment cookie lifetime” . I use W3TC on 2 other sites with identical config and have never seen this before.

    Hosting company said traffic is caused by the plug-in itself – it is coming from the IP address that represents their gateway…

    Thread Starter AndrewLynch

    (@andrewlynch)

    So it is W3 Total Cache indeed grabbing everything from site maps as part of wp-cron.php run as cron job every 30 mins. Did not expect it to do that often to be honest…

    Thread Starter AndrewLynch

    (@andrewlynch)

    Configure W3 Total Cache to exclude sitemaps but it was ignored. Removed sitemap altogether from config altogether – could not understand why it would need to grab sitemaps every 30 mins.

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