Fantastic addition to WP Super Cache or Litespeed Cache. Poor on its own.

  • chrisplaneta

    (@chrisplaneta)


    6 years, 10 months ago

    Hummingbird is great in what it does BUT will not give you the performance you are after on its own. It NEEDS to be used with plugins like WP Super Cache or Litespeed Cache. Let me explain.

    Hummingbird minifies, gzips, caches files in the browser (except fonts, which is a pain – I always add woff, ttf etc declarations to my htaccess manually) and lets you easily connect to cloudflare. It supports nginx, apache and litespeed. That’s great…

    BUT…

    it doesn’t do the most important part. The one that lets you save tons of your server resources – it doesn’t cache pages of your website as static files and later just serving them to browsers. That is why you REALLY need a plugin that does only that, like WP Super Cache or LiteSpeed Cache to get really, really good resuults (beating W3 Total Cache and even Fastest Cache).

    • This topic was modified 6 years, 10 months ago by chrisplaneta.
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  • Plugin Support Kasia – WPMU DEV Support

    (@wpmudev-support2)

    6 years, 10 months ago

    Hello chrisplaneta,

    Thank you for taking time to cast a vote and write this feedback for us. It is very important for us, because we can then improve our plugins.
    I will pass your opinion to our developers team and they will discuss if making Hummingbird a cache plugin is something we can do.
    Thank you again

    kind regards,
    Kasia

    jdailey

    (@jdailey)

    6 years, 10 months ago

    @chrisplaneta Thank you for the feedback! Caching is definitely in the roadmap for Hummingbird. 🙂 In the meantime, we have paid special attention to compatibility with the cache options you mentioned and recommend pairing Hummingbird with a good cache tool. Thank you again for your wonderful review and we will use your feedback to improve.

    angrywarrior

    (@angrywarrior)

    6 years, 9 months ago

    @chrisplaneta Hummingbird is not a server caching software, but it is a browser caching software. I think it is important to think of that part as it is completely different things. Hummingbird manages your end-users browser caching and does that very well. So basically your storing your data on end-users computers, thus making it faster for them to load next time they visit your website. It is not meant to handle server side caching. There is others that does that job much better.

    @jdailey I like the fact that it just does that. Not more and thus lightweight. There are already others do the job extremely well like WP Rocket: https://wp-rocket.me/ There is no point of trying to re-invent the wheel when someonelse already done it very well. Please dont start bloating up our Hummingbord so it stops singing! 😉

    jdailey

    (@jdailey)

    6 years, 9 months ago

    @angrywarrior this is a very good explanation of the current Hummingbird caching and why we thought it was a good idea to share it with others. We mention using it alongside dedicated server cache products and have intentionally worked to make it compatible with them. Your suggestion will definitely be considered moving forward. It has been added to the Roadmap but we are still discussing the how and why so this will help in that conversation.

    Thread Starter chrisplaneta

    (@chrisplaneta)

    6 years, 9 months ago

    You got me wrong. I don’t suggest this feature should be added. I’ve given 5 stars for what Hummingbird can do now and not what it might do if this feature was added.

    I meniotned server caching in my my comment just so that other users who might read it will know what it really is and how it should be used.

    I would suggest however, adding appropriate info the HBs description and adding browser caching of fonts beacasue, as I’ve explained, this is the only thing I haveto do manually every time I use it.

    Have a nice day,
    Krzysztof Płaneta

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