Do I need to enter a sitemap file
– I guess you are talking about the preloader. If so, I would suggest not to use it unless your server have enough reservice to handle preloading that many URL using cURL. Moreover it is not guaranteed that Cloudflare will cache the pages after preloading. Rather I would suggest you to do these 2 things:
1. Enable Tiered Cache inside your Cloudflare Dashboard
2. If you can pay for Cloudflare Cache Reserve – it is so much worth it – especially if you have low to medium traffic. More info: https://blog.cloudflare.com/introducing-cache-reserve/
Where is it better to enable Browser Cache in the plugin or in the CloudFlare settings?
– Inside the Cloudflare Browser Cache TTL settings, don’t tinker with that. Keep it to Respect Existing Header. Alternately, if you have a .htaccess based server like apache or lightspeed, first check your .htaccess file to see if there is already any rule present that is adding/modifying cache behaviour of static file by adding Exipration time or cache-control – if you see any such thing – delete them.
Then inside the plugin enable this option: https://i.imgur.com/FiKRWZL.jpeg
So that the plugin can add all the proper cache-control rules for your static files so that they can be cached properly.
But if you are on NGINX server then you have to click on this link: https://i.imgur.com/HYMS2ML.jpeg
and copy pase the shown rule to your nginx.conf file.
Hope this helps.
