Title: [Plugin: W3 Total Cache] Cache for GoogleBot?
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# [Plugin: W3 Total Cache] Cache for GoogleBot?

 *  [rhythmdoctor](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rhythmdoctor/)
 * (@rhythmdoctor)
 * [15 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-w3-total-cache-cache-for-googlebot/)
 * Frederick, Is there a way to make it such that Google gets cached versions of
   the pages as it appears (within webmaster tools -> labs -> site performance) 
   that my sight is being measured and given page load times more than 2-3 times
   that of what Pingdom and other tools show. Thanks in advance.
 * [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/w3-total-cache/](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/w3-total-cache/)

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 *  [Klark0](https://wordpress.org/support/users/klark0/)
 * (@klark0)
 * [15 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-w3-total-cache-cache-for-googlebot/#post-1776541)
 * pingdom doesn’t seem to load everything. see what webpagetest.org reports.
 *  [efikim](https://wordpress.org/support/users/efikim/)
 * (@efikim)
 * [15 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-w3-total-cache-cache-for-googlebot/#post-1776618)
 * I don’t think that the labs site performance data makes any use of Googlebot (
   it wouldn’t make sense, as Googlebot just loads the HTML page data, and not images,
   javascript or CSS, I think)
 * I think its data comes from real users using the Google toolbar
 *  Thread Starter [rhythmdoctor](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rhythmdoctor/)
 * (@rhythmdoctor)
 * [15 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-w3-total-cache-cache-for-googlebot/#post-1776784)
 * yea, tried your suggestion KLARKO, and still massive variance in what it shows
   and what Google shows – google showing at least 2-3 times the time to load.
 * As for Efikim – They definitely count the JS, CSS, etc… – it is kinda a new thing
   in webmaster tools as it is now a new factor for search rankings.
 *  Plugin Contributor [Frederick Townes](https://wordpress.org/support/users/fredericktownes/)
 * (@fredericktownes)
 * [15 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-w3-total-cache-cache-for-googlebot/#post-1776805)
 * The webmaster tools performance is determined by google toolbar traffic. By default
   W3TC is returning cached pages to everyone, however the overall total load time
   of the page is what google is using to determine your score so you will need 
   to fully tune your site.
 *  Thread Starter [rhythmdoctor](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rhythmdoctor/)
 * (@rhythmdoctor)
 * [15 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-w3-total-cache-cache-for-googlebot/#post-1776806)
 * Thanks Frederick. Ill email you about it. What would be a comparable tool that
   I could see what it is actually taking to load my site? If I look at it using
   Google page speed, or pingdom, It seems to be loading much faster than the times
   they state. Much appreciated.
 *  Plugin Contributor [Frederick Townes](https://wordpress.org/support/users/fredericktownes/)
 * (@fredericktownes)
 * [15 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-w3-total-cache-cache-for-googlebot/#post-1776808)
 * [http://webpagetest.org/](http://webpagetest.org/)
 *  Thread Starter [rhythmdoctor](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rhythmdoctor/)
 * (@rhythmdoctor)
 * [15 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-w3-total-cache-cache-for-googlebot/#post-1776816)
 * Yeah, weird – it also shows it loading at around 5-6 sec. vs. Google’s claim 
   that it takes 10-13 seconds… Oh well, not going to worry about it for now 🙂
 *  [Klark0](https://wordpress.org/support/users/klark0/)
 * (@klark0)
 * [15 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-w3-total-cache-cache-for-googlebot/#post-1776817)
 * This same thing bothered for me for while, but i gave up worrying about it.
    
   Serps have never been higher, and adsense is up.
 *  Plugin Contributor [Frederick Townes](https://wordpress.org/support/users/fredericktownes/)
 * (@fredericktownes)
 * [15 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-w3-total-cache-cache-for-googlebot/#post-1776824)
 * Google is reporting on users using the Google toolbar, which is lots of different
   users on lots of different connection speeds. So you have more optimization to
   do.

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