Title: Please explain wordfence cache? Last modified: August 31, 2016 --- # Please explain wordfence cache? * Resolved [LuciFit](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lucifit/) * (@lucifit) * [10 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/please-explain-wordfence-cache/) * Hi, Can you please tell me, or link me to a place where I can read what the Wordfence cache actually does? Why do I need it? Why would I want to remove it from individual posts? And, is it been slowing down my site when I’m in the back end (something is)? Thank you. * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/wordfence/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/wordfence/) Viewing 6 replies - 1 through 6 (of 6 total) * [wfasa](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wfasa/) * (@wfasa) * [10 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/please-explain-wordfence-cache/#post-7219978) * Hello LuciFit! Aside from the fact that visitors will have more fun visiting your site when it’s loading quickly, caching can make your site more stable if it’s under heavy load at certain times. Caching increases the amount of requests your site is able to handle. * The reason you might want to exclude certain pages from caching is in case they depend on real-time updates such as if your users are voting on something. Then you don’t want them to be served a cached page because it might have outdated information. * There is some more general information in our [docs](https://docs.wordfence.com/en/Falcon_Cache). You might also want to read the article [Introduction to Wordfence Falcon Engine for high performance sites](https://www.wordfence.com/introduction-to-wordfence-falcon-engine/). * I don’t think caching has been slowing down your admin. Have you tried turning different plugins on and off? It’s a good method for figuring out what’s causing performance issues. * Thread Starter [LuciFit](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lucifit/) * (@lucifit) * [10 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/please-explain-wordfence-cache/#post-7219982) * Thank you. I just read these. Yes, I have turned off and on plugins. I also disabled the cache feature and it seems to have helped. So I’m not sure of the connection. * I’m also being hosted by GoDaddy’s Faster WordPress hosting. I wonder if these two things are clashing. * Thread Starter [LuciFit](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lucifit/) * (@lucifit) * [10 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/please-explain-wordfence-cache/#post-7219988) * I have 2 more questions for you: * 1. What if I’m updating a blog post that’s already been published? Is there a way to disable the cache temporarily and then re-enable it after I’m done so that if someone comes to the newer post they’ll see it? If I make a change and the cache is enabled, how long until people see the new, updated release? * 2.What about video pages? These are uploading very slowly for me regardless if the cache protection is on or off. Is the cache helping these to be faster at all? [http://lucifit.com/exercise-videos-here/](http://lucifit.com/exercise-videos-here/) * [wfasa](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wfasa/) * (@wfasa) * [10 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/please-explain-wordfence-cache/#post-7220021) * 1. The changes you make on a post or page will be instantly visible to your visitors as cache is cleared when you save a post or page. It’s only if you have some other kind of live action happening on the page (not triggered from WordPress admin) that you want to exclude it from caching. * 2. I looked quickly at your site and I suspect that the performance issues you are experiencing are theme related, related to some other plugin (possibly a theme feature or plugin for video embedding or such?). When loading the page you can check the browsers console and watch how different parts of your page load and check for resources that fail to load. Follow the instructions [here](https://docs.wordfence.com/en/Open_the_JavaScript_console_for_troubleshooting_plugins) to open the console and then click on “Network” or “Net” in the console. Then reload your page and watch the different resources load. Any missing files, corrupt or interrupted loading of resources will slow down the loading. * Thread Starter [LuciFit](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lucifit/) * (@lucifit) * [10 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/please-explain-wordfence-cache/#post-7220055) * ok, I did that. A lot of things loaded! Not sure exactly what I’m looking for. The videos did take a long time to load but they had a green dot next to all. * [wfasa](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wfasa/) * (@wfasa) * [10 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/please-explain-wordfence-cache/#post-7220150) * You are looking for anything that fails to load (marked in red) or anything that takes a very long time to load. Then you have to figure out what plugin those failed or slow loads are being generated by, or if they belong to your theme. You can do that by reading the full path in the left column. It usually contains some indicator like a plugin name (or a domain name if it’s an external resource). Then you should contact support for that plugin or theme and ask for help. 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