regarding W3 Total Cache settings

There is an option to set up a dedicated browser caching option, alongside other elements of your site. We have used this plugin on every site we have, for years. It’s an excellent plugin, well thought out and very well maintained. We have never had any problems on any of our sites, and have never needed support. Captcha and recaptcha will work fine, however you will need to prevent any pages with forms from being cached.

Once the cache is cleared and rebuilt, then you should be able to see the changes after you clear your browser cache. Try clearing the browser cache in private mode and then see if the problem recurs. If the WordPress and Google options do not work, then it is likely a hack of some sort on the site. You will need to either find someone who can locate and remove the hack code or restore from a backup from before the hack. This means that for every visitor request that WordPress has to process, it must first connect to the database to see if the requested page even exists. Please keep in mind that all comments are moderated according to our comment policy, and your email address will NOT be published.

Part 2.6. Browser Cache

You can cache almost every aspect of your site, such as pages, posts, core files, database objects, memory fragments, Really Simple Syndication feeds, and much more. For WordPress users, you’ll often use a plugin to implement web caching on your site. There are lots available, and they all focus on different server types and applications. The WPKube blog uses the WP Rocket plugin – a premium solution. However, there is one plugin that you might want to use as your first, possibly only, caching plugin. You may optionally, specify up to 10 hostnames to use rather than the default hostname, doing so will improve the render performance of your site’s pages. Additional hostnames should also be specified in the settings for the distribution you’re using in the AWS Management Console.

• It makes your website much faster, especially if it’s a large and busy website.
• In addition, many of the FAQ titles aren’t very enlightening (“Umm, why?”).
• Enabling Database Caching out of the box, for example, could actually hurt your site’s performance rather than bringing any improvements if you are on a shared hosting setup.
• But in case of issues (e.g. the minification file not found), you can try disabling this setting.
• If that happens, trim down the lifetime of cache objects or reduce the garbage collection interval to reduce the amount of space taken up by the database cache.

The About menu provides a short, high-level overview of what W3TC can do. The most interesting part of the page is the list of people who contributed code, ideas, and experience to the development the plugin. The Install menu provides a variety of installation and setup instructions. To initiate any type of support request, select an option from the list and a new dialog will appear to submit the support request details and to pay for support if applicable. The extensions menu includes add-ons that allow third party products and services to integrate with W3TC. Extensions are available for integration with CloudFlare, FeedBurner, the Genesis Framework, and the WordPress SEO plugin. If an extension is available for a service or product you are using activate and configure the appropriate extension from this menu.

Background on W3 Total Cache

This affects your website’s performance, user experience, and SEO. This can improve LCP since lazy loading your above the fold images would be counterintuitive. W3 Total Cache recommends StackPath but they have 30+ less PoPs and a slower Tbps when you compare the BunnyCDN’s network vs. StackPath’s. StackPath was also removed from cdnperf.com after having issues while BunnyCDN is both consistently performant and reliable. BunnyCDN is also highly recommended in Facebook Groups with their own setup instructions.

If you are a beginner and feel already overwhelmed reading this section, then relax and use this option. You may lose a chance to make your site faster by 10% or so, but at least you don’t get an extra head ache with troubleshooting your website. For example, moving calls to CSS and JS files to a different part of the page; inlining the JS and CSS code into HTML code.