Cloudfare full cache not faster

Hey there @betumayo,

I had a look at your website headers and it looks like there is a cache-control header max-age=0. The header Cache-Control: max-age=0 implies that the content is considered stale (and must be re-fetched) immediately, which is in effect the same thing as Cache-Control: no-cache. This may be one of the reasons you are not noticing speed increase after enabling the Cloudflare full page caching through our plugin.

When using our Cloudflare Full Page Caching when reaching the limit, the requests will just be sent to the origin server.

I would suggest checking your htaccess for a specific rule setting the max-age=0. Also, this could be caused by another plugin setting, so you should also check your plugins for settings that are adding cache-control:max-age=0. I have also noticed that you are using WP Rocket. Combining multiple cashing plugins may lead to unexpected behaviour and lead to poor results.

If you still have issues after that feel free to reach back to us.

Kind Regards,
Stoyan

– Hi thank for your answere i will paste down here my htaccess i dont really know how to read it do you see nay line i can change manually?
also when tryin to test if the url is cached in the SG optimizer section test it ives me “The URL is not cached”

– i added the wp rocket after i saw that sg optimizer and cloudflare where not givinf me muhc speed after adding wp rocket it helped pushing the speed. but stll feeling its not enough

– <<When using our Cloudflare Full Page Caching when reaching the limit, the requests will just be sent to the origin server.>> about this if i have paid for the workers to reach no limit then why anywahy half of the request are from origin?

HTACCESS

# BEGIN WP Rocket v3.8.8
# Use UTF-8 encoding for anything served text/plain or text/html
AddDefaultCharset UTF-8
# Force UTF-8 for a number of file formats
<IfModule mod_mime.c>
AddCharset UTF-8 .atom .css .js .json .rss .vtt .xml
</IfModule>

# FileETag None is not enough for every server.
<IfModule mod_headers.c>
Header unset ETag
</IfModule>

# Since we’re sending far-future expires, we don’t need ETags for static content.
# developer.yahoo.com/performance/rules.html#etags
FileETag None

<IfModule mod_alias.c>
<FilesMatch "\.(html|htm|rtf|rtx|txt|xsd|xsl|xml)$">
<IfModule mod_headers.c>
Header set X-Powered-By "WP Rocket/3.8.8"
Header unset Pragma
Header append Cache-Control "public"
Header unset Last-Modified
</IfModule>
</FilesMatch>

<FilesMatch "\.(css|htc|js|asf|asx|wax|wmv|wmx|avi|bmp|class|divx|doc|docx|eot|exe|gif|gz|gzip|ico|jpg|jpeg|jpe|json|mdb|mid|midi|mov|qt|mp3|m4a|mp4|m4v|mpeg|mpg|mpe|mpp|otf|odb|odc|odf|odg|odp|ods|odt|ogg|pdf|png|pot|pps|ppt|pptx|ra|ram|svg|svgz|swf|tar|tif|tiff|ttf|ttc|wav|wma|wri|xla|xls|xlsx|xlt|xlw|zip)$">
<IfModule mod_headers.c>
Header unset Pragma
Header append Cache-Control "public"
</IfModule>
</FilesMatch>
</IfModule>

# Expires headers (for better cache control)
<IfModule mod_expires.c>
	ExpiresActive on
	ExpiresDefault                              "access plus 1 month"
	# cache.appcache needs re-requests in FF 3.6 (thanks Remy ~Introducing HTML5)
	ExpiresByType text/cache-manifest           "access plus 0 seconds"
	# Your document html
	ExpiresByType text/html                     "access plus 0 seconds"
	# Data
	ExpiresByType text/xml                      "access plus 0 seconds"
	ExpiresByType application/xml               "access plus 0 seconds"
	ExpiresByType application/json              "access plus 0 seconds"
	# Feed
	ExpiresByType application/rss+xml           "access plus 1 hour"
	ExpiresByType application/atom+xml          "access plus 1 hour"
	# Favicon (cannot be renamed)
	ExpiresByType image/x-icon                  "access plus 1 week"
	# Media: images, video, audio
	ExpiresByType image/gif                     "access plus 4 months"
	ExpiresByType image/png                     "access plus 4 months"
	ExpiresByType image/jpeg                    "access plus 4 months"
	ExpiresByType image/webp                    "access plus 4 months"
	ExpiresByType video/ogg                     "access plus 4 months"
	ExpiresByType audio/ogg                     "access plus 4 months"
	ExpiresByType video/mp4                     "access plus 4 months"
	ExpiresByType video/webm                    "access plus 4 months"
	# HTC files  (css3pie)
	ExpiresByType text/x-component              "access plus 1 month"
	# Webfonts
	ExpiresByType font/ttf                      "access plus 4 months"
	ExpiresByType font/otf                      "access plus 4 months"
	ExpiresByType font/woff                     "access plus 4 months"
	ExpiresByType font/woff2                    "access plus 4 months"
	ExpiresByType image/svg+xml                 "access plus 1 month"
	ExpiresByType application/vnd.ms-fontobject "access plus 1 month"
	# CSS and JavaScript
	ExpiresByType text/css                      "access plus 1 year"
	ExpiresByType application/javascript        "access plus 1 year"
</IfModule>
# Gzip compression
<IfModule mod_deflate.c>
# Active compression
SetOutputFilter DEFLATE
# Force deflate for mangled headers
<IfModule mod_setenvif.c>
<IfModule mod_headers.c>
SetEnvIfNoCase ^(Accept-EncodXng|X-cept-Encoding|X{15}|~{15}|-{15})$ ^((gzip|deflate)\s*,?\s*)+|[X~-]{4,13}$ HAVE_Accept-Encoding
RequestHeader append Accept-Encoding "gzip,deflate" env=HAVE_Accept-Encoding
# Don’t compress images and other uncompressible content
SetEnvIfNoCase Request_URI \
\.(?:gif|jpe?g|png|rar|zip|exe|flv|mov|wma|mp3|avi|swf|mp?g|mp4|webm|webp|pdf)$ no-gzip dont-vary
</IfModule>
</IfModule>

# Compress all output labeled with one of the following MIME-types
<IfModule mod_filter.c>
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/atom+xml \
		                          application/javascript \
		                          application/json \
		                          application/rss+xml \
		                          application/vnd.ms-fontobject \
		                          application/x-font-ttf \
		                          application/xhtml+xml \
		                          application/xml \
		                          font/opentype \
		                          image/svg+xml \
		                          image/x-icon \
		                          text/css \
		                          text/html \
		                          text/plain \
		                          text/x-component \
		                          text/xml
</IfModule>
<IfModule mod_headers.c>
Header append Vary: Accept-Encoding
</IfModule>
</IfModule>

<IfModule mod_mime.c>
AddType text/html .html_gzip
AddEncoding gzip .html_gzip
</IfModule>
<IfModule mod_setenvif.c>
SetEnvIfNoCase Request_URI \.html_gzip$ no-gzip
</IfModule>

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{HTTPS} on [OR]
RewriteCond %{SERVER_PORT} ^443$ [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP:X-Forwarded-Proto} https
RewriteRule .* - [E=WPR_SSL:-https]
RewriteCond %{HTTP:Accept-Encoding} gzip
RewriteRule .* - [E=WPR_ENC:_gzip]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_METHOD} GET
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} =""
RewriteCond %{HTTP:Cookie} !(wordpress_logged_in_.+|wp-postpass_|wptouch_switch_toggle|comment_author_|comment_author_email_) [NC]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^(/(.+/)?feed/?.+/?|/(?:.+/)?embed/|/checkout/(.*)|/cart/|/my-account-2/(.*)|/wc-api/v(.*)|/(index\.php/)?wp\-json(/.*|$))$ [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} !^(facebookexternalhit).* [NC]
RewriteCond "%{DOCUMENT_ROOT}/wp-content/cache/wp-rocket/%{HTTP_HOST}%{REQUEST_URI}/index%{ENV:WPR_SSL}%{ENV:WPR_WEBP}.html%{ENV:WPR_ENC}" -f
RewriteRule .* "/wp-content/cache/wp-rocket/%{HTTP_HOST}%{REQUEST_URI}/index%{ENV:WPR_SSL}%{ENV:WPR_WEBP}.html%{ENV:WPR_ENC}" [L]
</IfModule>
# END WP Rocket

SetEnv PHPRC /home/customer/www/ponponi.co.il/public_html/php.ini
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTPS} off
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ https://%{HTTP_HOST}%{REQUEST_URI} [L,R=301]]

# BEGIN WordPress
# ??????? (?????) ??? "BEGIN WordPress" ???? "END WordPress" ??
# ???? ????? ?????, ??? ????? ???? ?? ??????? ??????? ?? ???????.
# ?? ????? ??????? ??? ?????? ??? ????.
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule .* - [E=HTTP_AUTHORIZATION:%{HTTP:Authorization}]
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
</IfModule>

# END WordPress
#SetEnv MAGICK_THREAD_LIMIT 1.

## ENABLE GZIP COMPRESSION ##

## ENABLE GZIP COMPRESSION ##

## LEVERAGE BROWSER CACHING ##

## LEVERAGE BROWSER CACHING ##
AddHandler application/x-httpd-php72 .php .php5 .php4 .php3

# SGO Unset Vary
  Header unset Vary
# SGO Unset Vary END

• This reply was modified 3 years, 10 months ago by betumayo.

@betumayo,

Try one of the solutions provided here.

The solution that worked for us involved adding the following filter to our functions.php file via the Code Snippets plugin:

add_filter('rocket_htaccess_mod_expires', '__return_false');

Again, we use both SG Optimizer and WP Rocket. Combined, with no overlapping settings, our website runs faster than with SG Optimizer alone. We have data to support our claim.

Cheers!

thank you i tried that but didnt work for me.
i have no idea how to fix all my cache problems and cloudflare configuration since i am not a developer this has exceed my poor knowledge. i have no idea what are page rules either or how to fix them or why cloudflare dont cach all my site or this headers thing max age i fell like every thing i do i mess things. i feel so frustrated maby i should get a developer expert to have a look if you can recommend someone to pay and fix all the mess

i still get this:

Date: Fri, 30 Apr 2021 05:26:52 GMT
Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8
Transfer-Encoding: chunked
Connection: keep-alive
Set-Cookie: __cfduid=d44532f144daa4e2b488a64264860eca41619760412; expires=Sun, 30-May-21 05:26:52 GMT; path=/; domain=.ponponi.co.il; HttpOnly; SameSite=Lax
CF-Ray: 647e5b90ad6e07a6-LHR
Cache-Control: max-age=0, public
Expires: Fri, 30 Apr 2021 05:26:52 GMT
Vary: Accept-Encoding
CF-Cache-Status: DYNAMIC
cf-request-id: 09c2d78e6c000007a6389d7000000001
Expect-CT: max-age=604800, report-uri="https://report-uri.cloudflare.com/cdn-cgi/beacon/expect-ct"
Host-Header: 6b7412fb82ca5edfd0917e3957f05d89
SG-Optimizer-Worker-Status: miss
X-Httpd: 1
X-Powered-By: WP Rocket/3.8.8
X-Proxy-Cache: MISS
X-Proxy-Cache-Info: 0 NC:000000 UP:SKIP_CACHE_MAX_AGE_ZERO
Report-To: {"endpoints":[{"url":"https:\/\/a.nel.cloudflare.com\/report?s=HD3bpsbPWCbcM6sAh27%2FYZil2984BetG%2FRTpz01%2BQ5ou%2BdMYOnPWCeZo5RbMWppOF8NoFURKHQct%2Bb0cvpxgpJ7x%2BeN8QToimJeTZ84YfysDmQ%3D%3D"}],"group":"cf-nel","max_age":604800}
NEL: {"max_age":604800,"report_to":"cf-nel"}
Server: cloudflare
alt-svc: h3-27=":443"; ma=86400, h3-28=":443"; ma=86400, h3-29=":443"; ma=86400

Do not use WP Rocket with SG Optimizer. We can’t support other plugins and the way they break our functionality. It is a bad idea to use multiple performance solutions and on SiteGround we recommend only SG Optimizer. Your full page caching is not working because of WP Rocket. DIsable it, delete all the stuff they leave in the .htaccess and wp-config.php files, turn off and back on the Cloudflare full page caching option in SGO and your caching will start working.

@betumayo,

Did @hristo-sg’s solution work for you?

For the solution we provided above to work, once you implement the filter, you need to deactivate then activate WP Rocket.

Also, add the following filter to you functions.php file (directly or via Code Snippets) to deactivate GZip Compression in WP Rocket: (GZip Compression provided automatically by SG Optimizer)

add_filter('rocket_htaccess_mod_deflate', '__return_false');

Again, once you add the above filter, deactivate then activate WP Rocket. You should be good to go.

Cheers!