[Plugin: WP Super Cache] Pre-installation questions

  • dennis8

    (@dennis8)


    16 years, 4 months ago

    Hello,
    I’ve been told by the customer service of hostgator to try this plugin in order to make my page faster (they say there’s nothing wrong
    on their end). I only have occasional slowdowns but its still annoying. Anyway I have 4 questions before I can decide
    whether to use this and two have to do with the static aspect. Please understand that I have an affiliate blog so I’m not sure
    the “static” is in my best interest. Here’s the questions:

    1.Will a static site cause Google and its bots to behave differently towards my site? From what I know the advantage of a wordpress blog
    lies in the fact that its dynamic so that google crawls the site a lot. So will the crawlability of my blog be impacted by supercache?
    When I update a blog post, will that still send the pings out and receive the usual google love?

    2.I have a few amazon banners on my sidebars. At least one of them is dynamic aka it uploads frequently for deals. Will these still
    work and show updated when using supercache?

    3.The read me say there’s maybe a problem with sites having the category/postname structure. Well, under “permalinks” i have it set
    as just “/%postname%”. But I also know that when I load categories the permalink looks like this “category/postname”. (I believe this comes
    from an SEO plug in) So will I have a problem?

    4.How do I know if the “Apache mod mime and mod rewrite modules” are installed?

    Ok, I would greatly appreciate any feedback on this as soon as possible. I really need to get my site to load faster. Thanks,
    Dennis

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  • Thread Starter dennis8

    (@dennis8)

    16 years, 4 months ago

    Ignore 4, I just talked to hostgator customer service and they told me its installed on their server. [Duh, why else would they recommend supercache to me? ;-)]

    Donncha O Caoimh (a11n)

    (@donncha)

    16 years, 4 months ago

    1. No, no, yes.
    2. Yes if they load via Javascript.
    3. Probably won’t be a problem.

    Thread Starter dennis8

    (@dennis8)

    16 years, 4 months ago

    Thnks for the fast reply, donncha!
    I have just enabled the caching and banners and the like seem to be doing just fine. However I’ve noticed that the first loading of a single page takes longer now than before. After that however re-loading the same page is very fast. Is this normal? Does this mean every user will at first encounter a slow loading?

    Donncha O Caoimh (a11n)

    (@donncha)

    16 years, 3 months ago

    That’s not normal, but maybe your server is either very underpowered or on a (very) slow disk that takes time to write the cache file. Normally that isn’t noticeable at all.

    That slow down will only show when a page is first cached so it shouldn’t happen too often.

    Thread Starter dennis8

    (@dennis8)

    16 years, 3 months ago

    I doubt there’s an error on my servers side because like I said they actually recommended supercache to me plus when they checked they assured me the server has been working just fine.

    So if I go through the trouble and load every single page on my end that means it will then have cached versions of them – and these will subsequently be served to my visitors, right? If it takes a while for every page while I first cache them oh well – main thing is my visitors get fast loading times after that.

    Thread Starter dennis8

    (@dennis8)

    16 years, 3 months ago

    Well, judging from the time stamp in the page source super cache is working. However, the loading time is still pretty long, also when I test it with pingdom. The cached page usually doesn’t load faster than 10 seconds – clearly thats lame, right? I’m suspecting that maybe my plethora of images are to blame for that, especially as they’re placed as links and not link to the images themselves…?

    Could you guys do me a favor and check if my site loads fast for you? Its http://www.usbmemorysticks.net. Thanks!

    Btw, do I understand it correctly that once every hour (3600 sec) each page has a new cache of itself generated, causing a slow loading for that time? Why would that be necessary?

    Thread Starter dennis8

    (@dennis8)

    16 years, 3 months ago

    I also just tried switching compression on & off. It doesn’t make a difference. I’m quite baffled…

    Maybe there’s a conflict with a plugin? Heck, maybe one is causing the slow loading in the first place….these are the ones I have installed:

    AddThis – Social Bookmarking Widget
    Akismet
    Another WordPress Meta Plugin
    Collapsing Categories
    commentluv
    CyStat
    Enhanced WP-ContactForm
    Favicon Manager
    NextGEN Gallery
    NoFollow Free
    Redirection
    SEO Title Tag
    Technorati SimpleTags
    TinyMCE Advanced
    WordBay
    Wordpress Gravatars

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