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Thanks chadrew.

Would you suggest forcing folks to sign up for a user account? Or allow comments as long as they provide a name and email? It seems the latter will generate the most comments, but potentially the most spam too.

Thanks Donncha! I updated to SuperCache and to 3.1 and it does indeed work great.

How about WordPress 3.1? There appears to many people who rated SuperCache plus 3.1 as incompatible. if not compatible, do you know when you might provide an update?

Thanks for all you do Donncha!

Chris

I found an interesting article where a guy benchmarked SuperCache and CloudFlare in various combinations. There were plus and minuses to using both SuperCache and Cloudflare. The article is here.

Thanks nv1962 for this write up. I reviewed the CloudFlare service. That appears to be a very interesting approach to speeding up a website.

@donncha – any idea if/how CloudFlare might work with SuperCache? I also use a 3rd party CDN and set up it up directly into SuperCache. In addition to filtered DNS, CloudFlare says that they also cache images, CSS, javascript, etc. too so they sound like a CDN in some respects… All this caching by various parties (SuperCache, CDN, Cloudflare) makes my head hurt trying to wrap my mind around the caching of a cache of a cache.

Thanks Donncha. I’ll have a look at that.

@cadbloke – thanks I’ll check that out.

@donncha – have you tested SuperCache with CDN enabled along side WP Smush.it plugin? I am trying to wrap my head around how these might integrate together.

Thanks!
Chris

Ok. Thanks for the response. I have become somewhat neurotic about investigating any plugin’s impact on performance before I consider an install.

This appears to be a very cool plugin. I like too that I can use it to insert shortcodes and not have to worry about losing custom changes during a theme update.

Thanks!
Chris

For my preloaded files, I do not refresh them at all. I could not think of an advantage to doing this. When a post/page is updated, SuperCache clears it from the cache automatically. So why would I want to refresh all other preloaded posts/pages? I could not think of a reason other than to update archive plugins, so I do not refresh preloaded files on a schedule at all.

19 seconds is extremely slow, and 40 seconds is unbearable. I’d use Pingdom tools to see if your slow site is due to your computer or actual slow website. My hunch is that these 3 cache plugins are competing with each other and contributing to your slow website speed. I am actually surprised your website runs with all these enable. Well, I just checked your site and it is not definitely NOT working – bunch of unreadable code.

So, you definitely do not want to run multiple cache plugins, at least those who perform that same function. You need to pick one of those three. I would recommend using SuperCache. I would definitely “preload” your site (check the SuperCache settings). This preload feature alone should significantly improve your website speed. It basically serves up static HTML files of your site (plus whatever dynamic code [javascript, etc.] you may have).

I hope this helps.

@donncha – thanks for the clarification. BTW, I eagerly await your integration of that Minifiy plugin designed for SuperCache (I saw this discussed on the author’s website). I have problems with the other main WP-Minify plugin, and I hope this one works for me!

@manhal99 – thanks for the advice. I’ve been working hard to increase my website speed with only marginal returns. I’l like to implement WP Smush.it plugin to address your concerns over image size, but I am uncertain if this plugin plays nicely SuperCache with the CDN enabled.

Chris

I think I figured this out. I had to clear my entire cache at MaxCDN.. it appears to have fixed this. I had deleted the individual files, but I guess that wasn’t enough. My apologies for this hassle, and thank you for your excellent work.

Chris

I thought that might be the issue so I actually deleted the line of code from the theme.css all together and cleared out SuperCache cache, and it still showed up with the cache on (but not when the cache is turned off).

Strange huh?

Thanks so much for the quick response.

Just to clarify, you didn’t notice a difference in server load, but did you notice any increase in web page speed?

@salva_nio

I noticed that you use WP Super Cache and DB Cache Reloaded together. I have seen a number of sites state that they are compatible. I was about to create a new thread to ask this, but I thought I try here first.

Have you found these two plugins to be compatible? Do they create speed gains when used together?

Thanks