Title: [Plugin: W3 Total Cache] Do I need this plugin?
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# [Plugin: W3 Total Cache] Do I need this plugin?

 *  [atlyss](https://wordpress.org/support/users/atlyss/)
 * (@atlyss)
 * [14 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-w3-total-cache-do-i-need-this-plugin/)
 * Hi there, we have a website which will be experiencing high traffic in the month
   of June.
 * To prepare, we’ve installed APC, Memcached, and Varnish on our Apache server.
   We’re also using CloudFlare.
 * I have this plugin installed, but I’m not sure if I need it? If I already have
   all of those things caching, what advantage does this plugin give me?
 * Thanks!
 * [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/w3-total-cache/](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/w3-total-cache/)

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 *  Plugin Contributor [Frederick Townes](https://wordpress.org/support/users/fredericktownes/)
 * (@fredericktownes)
 * [14 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-w3-total-cache-do-i-need-this-plugin/#post-2698022)
 * It depends on what you want to do, but one thing that W3TC can do that no other
   performance plugins do is “optimize for the cache miss” – if you have an active
   site or lots of users / traffic you will not always have every page cached, so
   W3TC helps you with that. Furthermore, W3TC creates caches for user agents, referrers
   and helps you optimize browser cache. It also manages varnish for you. I could
   go on, but the point is simple, since it also helps you manage cloudflare as 
   well, it’s the framework you need if you care about user experience (site performance).

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 * Last reply from: [Frederick Townes](https://wordpress.org/support/users/fredericktownes/)
 * Last activity: [14 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-w3-total-cache-do-i-need-this-plugin/#post-2698022)
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