Title: [Plugin: W3 Total Cache] Test if Working
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# [Plugin: W3 Total Cache] Test if Working

 *  [harvlake](https://wordpress.org/support/users/harvlake/)
 * (@harvlake)
 * [14 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-w3-total-cache-test-if-working/)
 * Hi, I’ve installed the W3 Total Cache. It doesn’t appear to be helping my shared
   resources. How can I test if it is working?
 * I would appreciate you pointing me in the right direction.
 * Harv
 * [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, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-w3-total-cache-test-if-working/#post-2671464)
 * First make sure you set page caching to disk enhanced mode. Then check the HTML
   comment in when you view the source code of your page and see if the date changes
   when you refresh (make sure you’re logged out of WordPress when you check), alternatively
   you can check wp-content/w3tc/pgcache/ to see if any files exist there after 
   browsing your site while logged out.

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 * Last reply from: [Frederick Townes](https://wordpress.org/support/users/fredericktownes/)
 * Last activity: [14 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-w3-total-cache-test-if-working/#post-2671464)
 * Status: not resolved