Question about caching

  • I’ve always been afraid to do “minifying” of CSS and Javascript so I put it off until I saw all the great reviews of Autoptimize. I installed the plugin using the defaults values. Wow, what a difference!

    I ran a test on fastorslow.com and the results were impressive but one thing that was pointed out was Improve Caching Efficiency:

    An estimated 3 MB is wasted per load due to cache misses across 69 files. Increasing cache times where possible will result in faster page loads for repeat visitors. Files with a 50% or lower chance of a cache miss are not listed (0 files, 0 B additional).

    The only cache that I have available at the moment is nginx (I currently have it off). Would that help the situation or would you recommend something else?

    One other question related to nginx. These two settings are related to serving files so should they be on or off?

    Smart static files processing 

Serve static files directly by nginx

    Thanks again for the excellent product!

    • This topic was modified 4 years, 4 months ago by Bryan Eggers.

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    the cache misses are related to the directives sent by your webserver of how long files (css, js, images, …) can be cached by the browser. you can find more info on that topic in e.g. https://varvy.com/pagespeed/cache-control.html

    for the nginx options; not sure, I think this is specific to Plesk setups with both Apache & Nginx running and I’m afraid I have no experience with that setup.

    hope this helps,
    frank

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