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We use Youtube videos, exclusively, so I wouldn’t know about other sites.

Actually, I just discovered the problem is with the native WordPress video embed … sort of.

It turns out these were videos where the Youtube user disabled the embedding. I learned this by installing Viper’s Video Quicktags, which in post Preview displays the video pic, but when you click on it you get the helpful, infomational message “Embedding disabled by request, Watch on Youtube”. That would have been nice to know with the native WordPress video embed, but unfortunately it just displays the youtube url in the post so you really don’t know what the problem is or why it works on some videos but not on others.

Please consider adding a message. Thanks. ??

Native WordPress video embeds still not working with total cache. Switched to Quick Cache and they work. I’d prefer to use total cache – hope you can come up with a solution.

Sorry, I should have also asked the forum …

Has anyone had good experiences with a a mobile theme plugin (or plugins) that works well with total cache?

That is very odd. It looks like google may be wrong, or many other test sites on the web are wrong (seems unlikely).

I’m using the same gzip code in my .htaccess file that was provided by Quick Cache. In testing, the google link you provided above says gzip IS NOT enabled on my site. But all of these gzip test sites show that gzip IS enabled and the percentage of compression is around 78-79%, :

https://www.gidnetwork.com/tools/gzip-test.php
https://ismyblogworking.com
https://nontroppo.org/tools/gziptest/ (tests by browsers)
https://www.whatsmyip.org/http-compression-test/
https://www.seositecheckup.com/html_compression_status.php

Correction: It tries to load a blank page forever, but if I click the browser X to stop loading and then reload the page it loads in a couple seconds. This only happens on the initial load, every boot or reboot. Same behaviour on both my Windows 7 and XP Pro machines.

No problems in IE, Firefox or Opera. Love the plugin (doesn’t conflict with other plugins like some cache plugins) but anyone who visits my site using Chrome is probably giving up on the site.

Has anyone else tried this plugin and found the same issue?

Where can you send a PM in this forum? I can have you login with a test author ID. There is no Clear Cache button in the right header, or anywhere.

Your plugin description says

Allows anyone with publish permissions to clear the cache in Quick Cache.

But after activating this plugin, Authors cannot see the Clear Cache button in the header like Admins.

Has anyone else had success with this extra plugin?

BTW: The Quick Cache plugin recommended enabling gzip with the 2nd block of code above, just so happened that Godaddy also recommends. I’ve been using the first block of code until now with the same results.

Mind if I ask you one more question?

What’s the difference between these two blocks of code? Both give me the same compression results according to those test sites I mentioned. Godaddy has mod_rewrite and recommends the second code block in their support pages.

<FilesMatch ".(js|css|html|htm|php|xml)$">
SetOutputFilter DEFLATE
</FilesMatch>

<IfModule mod_deflate.c>
 AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/html text/xml text/css text/plain
 AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE image/svg+xml application/xhtml+xml application/xml
 AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/rdf+xml application/rss+xml application/atom+xml
 AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/javascript application/javascript application/x-javascript
 AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/x-font-ttf application/x-font-otf
 AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE font/truetype font/opentype
</IfModule>

What are the best free options/plugins? I’m broke!

I’m using the Quick Cache plugin (https://www.ads-software.com/extend/plugins/quick-cache/) because it was rated higher than W3 Super Cache. Is there a difference? There’s some dynamic content where I use rotating code to serve up new images on refresh. That’s basically disabled now for an hour, which is the default cache setting. Otherwise, Quick Cache updates the cache with each new blog post and doesn’t cache for members or new commenters.

Btw: Sites like ismyblogworking.com downgraded my site because I wasn’t using gzip, but now its all happy green check marks. But its not a good thing because of cpu, eh?

I wonder about traffic spikes because its a political site and when a story is picked-up by a high traffic site, I can get tens of thousands of visitors in an hour. But that’s not normal.

Can you guys give me a dummied-down version of what I should be using for best performance on shared hosting (godaddy)? I’m currently using the Quick Cache plugin and enabling gzip with the following .htaccess code:

<FilesMatch ".(js|css|html|htm|php|xml)$">
SetOutputFilter DEFLATE
</FilesMatch>

I’m a novice at .htaccess mods but I got this code from dozens of searches – it seemed to be the most commonly used code. Results are really good; pages load much faster, which I can verify with Quick Cache (results at the bottom of html source output) and test tools like https://www.gidnetwork.com/tools/gzip-test.php and https://ismyblogworking.com/ show a 78% compression with gzip.

Do I leave well enough alone or could I still have an issue if I get a spike in traffic?

Thanks!

And if you replace this line
RewriteRule .*.(gif|jpg|png|ico)$ – [F,L]

with this line
RewriteRule .*.(gif|jpg|jpeg|png|ico)$ https://www.mydomain.com/pages/images/hotlinkingisbad.jpg [R,NC,L]

Anyone who attempts to hotlink will be served with an image (that you create) saying something like “hotlinking is bad, please save the image for your site”. The image must reside in the directory where you allow hotlinking (pages/images in this case).

Fyi: You can test your code to prevent hotlinking at a number of test sites, including this real-time editor https://techgyo.com/HTML-Editor.htm (remember to clear your cache, first and often).