Title: [Plugin: WP Super Cache] Pre-installation questions Last modified: August 19, 2016 --- # [Plugin: WP Super Cache] Pre-installation questions * [dennis8](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dennis8/) * (@dennis8) * [16 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-wp-super-cache-pre-installation-questions/) * Hello, I’ve been told by the customer service of hostgator to try this plugin in order to make my page faster (they say there’s nothing wrong on their end). I only have occasional slowdowns but its still annoying. Anyway I have 4 questions before I can decide whether to use this and two have to do with the static aspect. Please understand that I have an affiliate blog so I’m not sure the “static” is in my best interest. Here’s the questions: * 1.Will a static site cause Google and its bots to behave differently towards my site? From what I know the advantage of a wordpress blog lies in the fact that its dynamic so that google crawls the site a lot. So will the crawlability of my blog be impacted by supercache? When I update a blog post, will that still send the pings out and receive the usual google love? * 2.I have a few amazon banners on my sidebars. At least one of them is dynamic aka it uploads frequently for deals. Will these still work and show updated when using supercache? * 3.The read me say there’s maybe a problem with sites having the category/postname structure. Well, under “permalinks” i have it set as just “/%postname%”. But I also know that when I load categories the permalink looks like this “category/ postname”. (I believe this comes from an SEO plug in) So will I have a problem? * 4.How do I know if the “Apache mod mime and mod rewrite modules” are installed? * Ok, I would greatly appreciate any feedback on this as soon as possible. I really need to get my site to load faster. Thanks, Dennis Viewing 7 replies - 1 through 7 (of 7 total) * Thread Starter [dennis8](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dennis8/) * (@dennis8) * [16 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-wp-super-cache-pre-installation-questions/#post-1310898) * Ignore 4, I just talked to hostgator customer service and they told me its installed on their server. [Duh, why else would they recommend supercache to me? ;-)] * [Donncha O Caoimh (a11n)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/donncha/) * (@donncha) * [16 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-wp-super-cache-pre-installation-questions/#post-1310949) * 1. No, no, yes. 2. Yes if they load via Javascript. 3. Probably won’t be a problem. * Thread Starter [dennis8](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dennis8/) * (@dennis8) * [16 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-wp-super-cache-pre-installation-questions/#post-1311000) * Thnks for the fast reply, donncha! I have just enabled the caching and banners and the like seem to be doing just fine. However I’ve noticed that the first loading of a single page takes longer now than before. After that however re- loading the same page is very fast. Is this normal? Does this mean every user will at first encounter a slow loading? * [Donncha O Caoimh (a11n)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/donncha/) * (@donncha) * [16 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-wp-super-cache-pre-installation-questions/#post-1311098) * That’s not normal, but maybe your server is either very underpowered or on a ( very) slow disk that takes time to write the cache file. Normally that isn’t noticeable at all. * That slow down will only show when a page is first cached so it shouldn’t happen too often. * Thread Starter [dennis8](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dennis8/) * (@dennis8) * [16 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-wp-super-cache-pre-installation-questions/#post-1311102) * I doubt there’s an error on my servers side because like I said they actually recommended supercache to me plus when they checked they assured me the server has been working just fine. * So if I go through the trouble and load every single page on my end that means it will then have cached versions of them – and these will subsequently be served to my visitors, right? If it takes a while for every page while I first cache them oh well – main thing is my visitors get fast loading times after that. * Thread Starter [dennis8](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dennis8/) * (@dennis8) * [16 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-wp-super-cache-pre-installation-questions/#post-1311116) * Well, judging from the time stamp in the page source super cache is working. However, the loading time is still pretty long, also when I test it with pingdom. The cached page usually doesn’t load faster than 10 seconds – clearly thats lame, right? I’m suspecting that maybe my plethora of images are to blame for that, especially as they’re placed as links and not link to the images themselves…? * Could you guys do me a favor and check if my site loads fast for you? Its [http://www.usbmemorysticks.net](http://www.usbmemorysticks.net). Thanks! * Btw, do I understand it correctly that once every hour (3600 sec) each page has a new cache of itself generated, causing a slow loading for that time? Why would that be necessary? * Thread Starter [dennis8](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dennis8/) * (@dennis8) * [16 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-wp-super-cache-pre-installation-questions/#post-1311117) * I also just tried switching compression on & off. It doesn’t make a difference. I’m quite baffled… * Maybe there’s a conflict with a plugin? Heck, maybe one is causing the slow loading in the first place….these are the ones I have installed: * AddThis – Social Bookmarking Widget Akismet Another WordPress Meta Plugin Collapsing Categories commentluv CyStat Enhanced WP-ContactForm Favicon Manager NextGEN Gallery NoFollow Free Redirection SEO Title Tag Technorati SimpleTags TinyMCE Advanced WordBay Wordpress Gravatars Viewing 7 replies - 1 through 7 (of 7 total) The topic ‘[Plugin: WP Super Cache] Pre-installation questions’ is closed to new replies. ## Tags * [amazon](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/amazon/) * 7 replies * 2 participants * Last reply from: [dennis8](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dennis8/) * Last activity: [16 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-wp-super-cache-pre-installation-questions/#post-1311117) * Status: not resolved ## Topics ### Topics with no replies ### Non-support topics ### Resolved topics ### Unresolved topics ### All topics