Title: causing issues with caching
Last modified: April 20, 2021

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# causing issues with caching

 *  Resolved [leanne0333](https://wordpress.org/support/users/leanne0333/)
 * (@leanne0333)
 * [5 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/causing-issues-with-caching/)
 * Ive been running some speed tests recently and have spoken to a site engineer
   who took a look and identified that the cookies are causing my caching plugin
   to not work as its loading the script on every page. They said evergreen countdown
   timer plugin often causes this. Is there a way to make sure it only loads on 
   pages I use the countdowns on? thanks

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 *  Plugin Contributor [intellywp](https://wordpress.org/support/users/intellywp/)
 * (@intellywp)
 * [5 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/causing-issues-with-caching/#post-14343240)
 * Hello
    Could you please send us the url of your website and the name of this 
   caching plugin?
 * Thank you
 *  Thread Starter [leanne0333](https://wordpress.org/support/users/leanne0333/)
 * (@leanne0333)
 * [5 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/causing-issues-with-caching/#post-14347839)
 * [http://www.passiveincomesuperstars.com](http://www.passiveincomesuperstars.com)
   and the caching plugin is the one my host siteground offers it is called SG Optimizer.
 * I also just did a speed test before and after deactivating evergreen countdown
   plugin and its definitely the cause – deactivating it shaved 1 second off my 
   time to 1st byte and CLP.
 * This is what they said in my site speed audit about why it was happening:
 *     ```
       When testing https://www.passiveincomesuperstars.com/ , we are
       seeing TTFBs of between 1.1 and 2.1 seconds. This would appear to be
       because a cookie is being set in the header of the response that comes
       back from the server when the page is loaded that causes the page to
       bypass the cache meaning that any page on that site would have to be
       loaded fresh from the server each time, rather than from the cache
       ```
   
 *  Plugin Contributor [intellywp](https://wordpress.org/support/users/intellywp/)
 * (@intellywp)
 * [5 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/causing-issues-with-caching/#post-14348433)
 * Hello
 * Could you please send us the url where the countdown is visible?
 * Thank you
 *  Thread Starter [leanne0333](https://wordpress.org/support/users/leanne0333/)
 * (@leanne0333)
 * [5 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/causing-issues-with-caching/#post-14350059)
 * [https://www.passiveincomesuperstars.com/click-and-convert-oto/](https://www.passiveincomesuperstars.com/click-and-convert-oto/)
 * But as stated, its effecting the caching plugin in general so its not just these
   pages effected – every page on my website is effected as its adding the cookie
   to the header site-wide
 *  Plugin Contributor [intellywp](https://wordpress.org/support/users/intellywp/)
 * (@intellywp)
 * [5 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/causing-issues-with-caching/#post-14351808)
 * Hello,
 * Have you tried to set IP as detection mode?
 * Unfortunately the plugin needs to load the cookie on the whole website
 *  Thread Starter [leanne0333](https://wordpress.org/support/users/leanne0333/)
 * (@leanne0333)
 * [5 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/causing-issues-with-caching/#post-14352280)
 * Ok if i change all to IP then will it solve the issue?
 *  Thread Starter [leanne0333](https://wordpress.org/support/users/leanne0333/)
 * (@leanne0333)
 * [5 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/causing-issues-with-caching/#post-14355311)
 * So I changed all to IP address. I deactivated the plugin flushed all caches, 
   tested speed and again TTFB improved. I reactivated the plugin with just IP address
   settings no cookies but again the TTFB shot up as soon as it was activated again.
   It seems to be adding the cookies even when none of my timers use them.
 *  Plugin Contributor [intellywp](https://wordpress.org/support/users/intellywp/)
 * (@intellywp)
 * [5 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/causing-issues-with-caching/#post-14355629)
 * Hello
 * i created the same type of countdown on my local WordPress installation and unfortunately
   the plugin needs to add this cookie **FirstSeen**, regardless of the detection
   mode
 *  Thread Starter [leanne0333](https://wordpress.org/support/users/leanne0333/)
 * (@leanne0333)
 * [5 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/causing-issues-with-caching/#post-14357185)
 * Oh no, thats a real problem! Would this be an issue for all caching plugins or
   do you think its specific to SG Optimizer?
 *  Plugin Contributor [intellywp](https://wordpress.org/support/users/intellywp/)
 * (@intellywp)
 * [5 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/causing-issues-with-caching/#post-14359928)
 * Hello
 * Unfortunately i have no idea.
 * You could install one of available cache plugin on wordpress.org plugin directory
   and check again your website
 *  Plugin Author [Data443 Risk Mitigation, Inc.](https://wordpress.org/support/users/data443/)
 * (@data443)
 * [4 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/causing-issues-with-caching/#post-14656892)
 * Hi [@leanne0333](https://wordpress.org/support/users/leanne0333/) ,
    We’ve just
   updated the paid premium plugin to Facilitate page caching when IP Only counters
   are used.The free version will be limited to cookie, but pro version will allow
   caching via IP.
 * The cause of the slowdown is the use of the Session which is used to track unique
   users. The Session information is stored on the server which is why the session
   cookie comes from the server on each page load. It is not possible to only enable
   the session on a particular page because the session cookie arrives in the header
   before the html body is sent. If the session is only enabled on a page, then 
   the page would need to be refreshed to to update from the server before the session
   cookie can be accessed.
    Because of the way the Session works, we have disabled
   the Session when only the IP is used to track all countdown timers on the site.
   If any of the countdown timers use cookie tracking, then the Session will be 
   activated site wide.

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