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Here are screen shots of my results, May 2, May 5, and May 7 when W3 Total Cache Pro configuration by a W3 Edge expert/employee was complete:

http://www.off-grid-insights.com/2014/05/07/w3-total-cache-fail/

Hi Again, CrouchingBruin ~

I sure wish I had an understanding of websites that was a little closer to yours… There’s just so much I don’t understand.

I Tweeted about the W3 problem to W3… and a very nice man replied. He c.c.ed to the man whose name is associated with the plugin. But overall, I don’t quite understand. And, that’s on two levels. I can see that I’m probably not using plugins in exactly the right way to get the speed I want, but at the same time, the cost of professional help is rather high. Or, it would make so much difference that the cost would become far less significant than the results.

I think this is more of an issue for me, when I’m up against so many sites about vitamin B12 that are most likely well funded. My information can make a lot of difference, but it’s not mainstream. So, in many cases you can probably google for answers and get 4 sites that say one thing, and then my site which talks about experience and research… I try to write in a way that most people will understand, that’s a plus. But at the same time it may cast doubt about accuracy or truth in what I say, because it’s not exactly like the “official” sites.

Dilemma.

When I look at what W3 and W3 Pro offer, it’s mostly way over my head. So, it’s a bit like taking it on faith, like back when I was in Catholic grade school. And some of that… boy, did my perspective change over the years.

What does seem to be fairly clear, is that even if I pay a W3 professional to set up my W3, it will have 60% locked potential unless I buy Pro.

Any advice on what you would do?

Hi CrouchingBruin…

Thanks for alerting me to the smiley face. It’s been a challenge, since more often than not I can’t see it. But when I ask on FB and Twitter, people report that my pages redirect to it, and it alone. It may be corrected now. Hope so.

CrouchingBruin ~ The caching thing is a bit baffling to me. You don’t use it because your sites automatically appear at the top of search results… What confuses me is that the caching things are supposed to make sites load more quickly. So they are mainly “advertised” as elements that make a site more user friendly. I can’t imagine that you don’t have user friendly sites, so I’m unclear why the caching things say that their main purpose is speed for a user friendly site…

My obsession with Google has dimmed. Now my main interest is making my site user friendly.

Years ago I used to understand things so easily. It was as if things were always Clear, with very little effort. Now… not so much. When I took the SATs a kazillion years ago I was in teh 98th percentile nationally for comprehension. Except in maths, where I was in the 22nd percentile.

So is website stuff so much like maths that I can’t get it??? do you think??? Or, is it mainly the brain injury which makes comprehension so much harder… I feel as if the fact my thinking has been slowed by over half, that I just can’t “get up to speed” when I want to follow directions. Sigh. I guess I should just be happy that for most of my life I didn’t have to plod through things…

CrouchingBruin… do you think I could have been hacked?

JetPack mentions a smiley Face… but I have the don’t-show option checked…

In trying to figure out where the Smiley Face is coming from… I think it may be the JetPack, I found something called PermaLinks… that may be where the number came from… I’m not sure how, but …