Title: Bad performance
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Bad performance

 *  [Pepijn van Vlaanderen](https://wordpress.org/support/users/peppol/)
 * (@peppol)
 * [12 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/bad-performance-1/)
 * The W3TC plugin is great and I use(d) it in many WordPress installations, but
   since WP 3.8.1 (and W3TC 0.9.3) the performance is very bad in comparison with
   WP Super Cache or no cache at all.
    Specifically the page generation times are
   much lower, 3-6 secs with W3TC and <1 secs with WP Super Cache.
 * Is this a known issue with the latest WP version? I’ve read comments about underpowered
   servers, that is definitely not the case here (have my own VPS with great specs).
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/w3-total-cache/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/w3-total-cache/)

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 *  Thread Starter [Pepijn van Vlaanderen](https://wordpress.org/support/users/peppol/)
 * (@peppol)
 * [12 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/bad-performance-1/#post-4673956)
 * I’ve been able to narrow it down to the object cache, without it the page generation
   time is 3-5 seconds faster!? Disabled it now, but am interested how this is possible?

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