Title: HTTPS site caching
Last modified: August 30, 2016

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# HTTPS site caching

 *  [raulliive](https://wordpress.org/support/users/raulliive/)
 * (@raulliive)
 * [10 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/https-site-caching/)
 * Explanation of HTTPS site page caching option.
 * Under the page cache W3TC has option:
    “Cache SSL (https) requests” with explanation“
   Cache SSL requests (uniquely) for improved performance.”
 * I’m wondering what the uniquely means here.
 * Is anyone being able to explain it what it exactly does?
 * I see from APCu cache stats that after a move to https, it probably cahces pages
   differently. I see less hits on single cached items and more items on cache.
 * I’d like not to cache static pages over SSL uniquely, as there’s no end user 
   value in it.
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/w3-total-cache/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/w3-total-cache/)

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 *  [Scott Hartley](https://wordpress.org/support/users/destac/)
 * (@destac)
 * [10 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/https-site-caching/#post-6526299)
 * Very simple. When you are submitting your site to Google you have to submit both
   the https and http version of the website. Because you can serve different content
   to both.
 * W3TC does the same but with caching.. Its just smarter to enable that setting
   if you have an ssl.
 *  Thread Starter [raulliive](https://wordpress.org/support/users/raulliive/)
 * (@raulliive)
 * [10 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/https-site-caching/#post-6526346)
 * Thanks.
 * So the uniquely does just mean that it separates the cache for http and https,
   in case you server web over both.
 * Thanks for clarifying.

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