Title: [Plugin: WP Super Cache] Super Cache Slow?
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# [Plugin: WP Super Cache] Super Cache Slow?

 *  [Delete Me](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lincolnadams/)
 * (@lincolnadams)
 * [17 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-wp-super-cache-super-cache-slow/)
 * Just some observations I made:
 * I noticed with Super Cache it adds 5-6 seconds to the load time for some reason.
   What happens is when I click to surf to my blog, there’s about a 5-6 second delay
   before my blog begins loading, whereas when the cache is disabled my blog begins
   loading immediately. I also noticed this to be the case when I try using Gzip(
   I’ve tried using both the inbuilt gzip and a separate plugin by Filofoso). There’s
   always a 5-6 second pause before my site begins to load.
 * I think it’s obvious that the processing power on my server isn’t powerful enough
   to cache and gzip my files instantaneously (or I simply don’t have enough alloted
   to me), which is why there’s always this short pause before my site even begins
   to load. Ironically enough it means my blog loads faster without the caching 
   system and gzip than it does with it. Kinda sad actually. =P
 * As an alternative solution I will have to explore using mod_gzip instead to compress
   my files instead of using a php script solution via super cache, which I understand
   is not the ideal solution anyway. As for caching, I guess I should only reserve
   that for times when I know I’ll be getting massive traffic.

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 *  [ag211](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ag211/)
 * (@ag211)
 * [16 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-wp-super-cache-super-cache-slow/#post-827881)
 * I have the same problem… Any ideas on how to solve this effectively. I run a 
   high traffic site and caching is a must but this delay really isn’t worth it.
 *  [ag211](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ag211/)
 * (@ag211)
 * [16 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-wp-super-cache-super-cache-slow/#post-827882)
 * Playing around with my NGINX server configuration (not using Apache), I realized
   my gzip_comp_level was set to 5 which significantly slowed things down. Setting
   this to 2 resulted in super fast speeds.
 *  Moderator [Samuel Wood (Otto)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/otto42/)
 * (@otto42)
 * WordPress.org Admin
 * [16 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-wp-super-cache-super-cache-slow/#post-827883)
 * Yeah, if you have super cache doing compression, then it’s pointless to have 
   the server doing it as well. Use one or the other, not both.

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 * Last reply from: [Samuel Wood (Otto)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/otto42/)
 * Last activity: [16 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-wp-super-cache-super-cache-slow/#post-827883)
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