Title: Disabling W3 Total Cache?
Last modified: August 22, 2016

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# Disabling W3 Total Cache?

 *  [LikeYourLife](https://wordpress.org/support/users/likeyourlife/)
 * (@likeyourlife)
 * [11 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/disabling-w3-total-cache/)
 * Hi,
 * In order to use the Falcon engine caching, I am advised I need to remove W3 Total
   Cache?
 * I’m using minify in a different plugin so that’s not an issue. However, I have
   Database, Browser, and Object caching enabled. Are these part of the Falcon caching
   engine? Or will the benefit of Falcons cache outweight these?
 * I also have Cloudfare activated through W3 Total Cache, although there are other
   free options for this.
 * Could you please advise if Wordfence’s caching would still be better?
 * Thanks!
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 *  Thread Starter [LikeYourLife](https://wordpress.org/support/users/likeyourlife/)
 * (@likeyourlife)
 * [11 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/disabling-w3-total-cache/#post-5440938)
 * I disabled W3 Total Cache, and enabled the Falcon cache but noticed barely any
   difference compared to having W3 disabled…
 * With W3 enabled, my share bar and pop up bar loaded a split second after the 
   rest of the pages content.
 * With W3 disabled, and Falcon enabled, my share bar and pop up bar loaded about
   a second or two after the rest of the content.
 * Am I supposed to do something else? Or is it the fact that Cloudflare CDN isn’t
   being used now as that was part of W3?
 * Thanks!
 *  [WFSupport](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wfsupport/)
 * (@wfsupport)
 * [11 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/disabling-w3-total-cache/#post-5440964)
 * With Cloudflare, I think you have to use the Cloudflare plugin (though Damon 
   could probably elaborate better – their support rocks BTW). I think that it might
   not be showing you the cached site. You can view the cache by clicking the button
   on the performance options page or checking the box to add a line of code at 
   the bottom of the cached page. When I tested it I had to come from a proxied 
   browser to see it.
 * Let me know if this helps.
 * tim

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