The plugin upset me.

  • arraypop

    (@arraypop)


    5 years, 6 months ago

    1) Plugin doesn’t work with woocommerce. No additional features for woocommerce.
    2) Object cache (DISK) is a bomb that kills not only the site but also the server. I do not know how the storage of the cache is arranged, but apparently for each user who comes, their own cache files are created. The entire server overflows within an hour, the site crashes.
    3) Compressing scripts and styles does not always speed up the site. For example, in wordpress there is a localization of scripts that can be placed before each script. The plugin will not unite all the scripts, it will only compress all scripts in turn, and if there are 5 localizations, the plugin will make 5 script files. But to speed up the site, you need to unify all the scripts.
    But this plugin has a good side. If your site is not large and has little dynamics, then you can put a cache of pages and there will not be many localizations for scripts, then everything will be fine.

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  • Plugin Contributor Marko Vasiljevic

    (@vmarko)

    5 years, 6 months ago

    Hello @arraypop

    Thank you for your review and I am sorry about any issues you experienced.
    We would be more than happy to assist you with those issues, however as I can see you never posted any in the support forum.

    1. W3 Total Cache does work with Woocommrece. the two plugins are compatible. Can you please share which additional features you expected for woo commerce which would help in your use-case?

    2. Yes, using Object cache with disk caching method and especially on slow servers (shared hosting) may cause issues.
    Object Cache allows getting data from the database more efficiently. Its purpose is similar to what Database Cache does. But compared to Database Cache, Object cache is more efficient as it allows us to process fewer requests.
    As a rule of thumb, Object Cache is not worth using on shared hosting for the same reason as Database Cache, i.e. database is often not the performance bottleneck, but disk input-output operations.
    However, like Database Cache, it can be beneficial to use if you are on VPS or a dedicated server, get a lot of traffic, have a lot of comments. Also, if you know that database is the bottleneck of your website performance, then Object Cache (like Database Cache) is beneficial to use. But in this case, it’s recommended to use Opcode, Memcached, or Redis options.

    3. This is how the W3 Total Cache minify feature works when enabled on Auto. Depending on the location of the JS/CSS files those files are combine/minified into single files. W3 Total Cache does have a Manual minify option that you can use to manually add JS/CSS files to minify and it will create a single file for each.

    And on a contrary, W3 Total Cache is the most advanced caching plugin. There are a lot of options and when configured properly you can achieve awesome results.

    If you have any specific issues that we can help you with please let us know and we will be more than happy to help.
    Thanks!

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