It does not seem like the browser cache functionality is working

  • Resolved braxvang

    (@braxvang)


    3 years, 8 months ago

    Hello,

    I am having a hard time validating if any of the Browser cache settings are working. I have browser caching enabled with the following settings checked: Set Last-Modified header, Set expires header, Set cache control header, Set entity tag (ETag), Set W3 Total Cache header, Enable HTTP (gzip) compression. I know you don’t need to have these enabled all at once, I was just doing this for testing. At the bottom of my HTML page, I see this:

    <!–
    Performance optimized by W3 Total Cache. Learn more: https://www.boldgrid.com/w3-total-cache/

    Page Caching using disk: enhanced (User is logged in)
    Minified using disk
    Database Caching using disk (Request-wide User is logged in)
    –>

    It does not say anything about browser caching being enabled. Additionally, I checked my response headers and they always have “Cache-Control: no-cache, must-revalidate, max-age=0” regardless of the browser caching settings. I did make the necessary edits to the .htaccess file before testing the changes.

    Do you have any recommendations for getting Browser caching working / other methods of seeing if the browser caching settings are actually making any difference?

    Thanks!
    -Braxton

    • This topic was modified 3 years, 8 months ago by braxvang.
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  • Plugin Contributor Marko Vasiljevic

    (@vmarko)

    3 years, 8 months ago

    Hello @braxvang

    Thank you for your inquiry and I am happy to assist you with this.
    To confirm, the HTML output is not showing if the Browser Cache feature is enabled.
    Can you please share your website URL so I can inspect your website and check this?
    YOu can always inspect the element and check if the files have expires headers set, ETag, gzip compression, etc.
    YOu can also test your website on Gtmetrix and check the results. If some files are missing the ETAG or Expires header or need compression, (excluding external resources that cannot be handled as they are coming from the server other than yours) you can see that in the Gtmetrix report and change the settings accordingly.
    Again, please share your website URL so we can check this.
    Thanks!

    Thread Starter braxvang

    (@braxvang)

    3 years, 8 months ago

    Hi Marko,

    Thank you for the quick reply! We were able to work these issues out on our own on our end. I’ll go ahead and mark this as resolved.

    Plugin Contributor Marko Vasiljevic

    (@vmarko)

    3 years, 8 months ago

    Hello @braxvang

    Thank you for the information.
    Glad to know the issue is resolved.
    Thanks!

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