Live traffic question

I see these in my live traffic on the Google Crawlers tab. But, to be clear, live traffic is turned off by default when you enabled caching from our plugin. If it’s another plugin handling the caching, I believe it should show hits, regardless if they are cached or not.

tim

Thanks for the reply. I’m using another caching plugin. I was asking because when it’s off I see a lot of google activity, when it’s on very little.

Two more questions:

Does the wordfence build in cache feature offer cache pre-loading? or does it require site visitors (wp-cron dependent) to trigger it ?

Is there any way to have wordfence cache on without switching live traffic off ?

Thanks.

Here’s how caching works

Basic caching uses PHP to serve up pages that are stored on disk. So PHP, WordPress and Wordfence execute and interrupt execution to serve up a pre-rendered page early in the execution cycle. This provides a nice speed increase without having to edit your .htaccess. Some sites can’t do this which is why we included the feature. If you aren’t seeing a performance gain, my guess is that your site does some heavy lifting early on in the execution cycle and this bottleneck isn’t solved by basic caching.

Falcon Engine modifies your .htaccess to have your web server serve pre-rendered pages directly to the user. We use a different directory structure which reduces stat() activity on your server disk and is therefore faster and gets better performance than other caching plugins. Please see https://www.wordfence.com/blog/ for more info on this

So, basic caching doesn’t rely so much on the user click to get the page I think.

Currently, there is not a way to have both, specifically because live traffic increases some load on the server. Your site is still being monitored and alerts are still working. Its the calls to the database to serve up information on the screen that use up the resources.

tim

Thank you for the detailed explanation. I will try WF caching in the future. Right now I’m having a lot of issues with other plugin(s) blocking search bots and WF live traffic view is the only way for me to see if they have proper access to my website.