Inodes & Cloudflare

  • Resolved irishetcher

    (@irishetcher)


    6 years, 6 months ago

    Hi I have two questions regarding my recent install and configuration of W3 Total Cache.

    The first relates to inode usage on my Siteground hosting. I started getting emails a couple of hours apart flagging a sudden increase in inode usage. Is there a setting to alleviate this issue?

    I have the plugin set up to cover caching, compression and minifying. On SG Optimiser I have turned all these off and kept image optimisation active. With this combination I can get the following stats on GTMetrix:

    Performance Scores
    PageSpeed Score
    (94%)
    YSlow Score
    (80%)

    Page Details
    Fully Loaded Time
    3.5s
    Total Page Size
    1.16MB
    Requests
    42

    The site feels that bit snappier with better GTMetrx scores than the older configuration I had set up with SG Optimiser and WP Performance Score Booster.
    This leads me to my second question relating to CloudFlare CDN. I followed a suggestion to offload minifying html, css and js to Cloudflare. Straight away the score dropped back again behind my SG Optimiser/WP Performance Score Booster config mentioned above. Does the config form Cloudflare take a while to take effect? Also, dose the html minify mean the same thing as gzip compression?

    I am on the latest version of WordPress with Divi 4.0.5

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  • Plugin Contributor Marko Vasiljevic

    (@vmarko)

    6 years, 6 months ago

    Hello @irishetcher

    Thank you for your inquiry and I am happy to answer your questions.
    If your caching method is set to Disk there is a chance of increased inode usage. Limiting inode is a way to limit disk usage. This means that you should purge cache regularly and clear expired cache. One other thing that you can do is use a memory-based caching method such as Redis or Memcached.

    As for your Cloudflare question, yes it may take up to 48 hours for the Cloudflare cache to completely rebuild on CloudFlare’s global network.
    Also, you need to make sure not to have minify enabled in both Cloudflare and W3 Total Cache as it can cause a conflict of course.
    And of course, this is a choice but if you have better results with W3 Total Cache minify you should switchback. Just a suggestion.
    HTML Minification is the process of removing anything that is not essential to the rendering of the page (such as comments or whitespace) and making changes that reduce the overall size of the file. GZIP compression is enabled server-side and allows for further reduction in the size of your HTML, stylesheets, and JavaScript files
    I hope this helps and please let us know if you have any other questions.

    Thread Starter irishetcher

    (@irishetcher)

    6 years, 6 months ago

    Thanks Marko,

    I have taken note of your recommendations. I will report back with updates on how I fair with my testing.

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