Falcon cache broken.

Just to be sure — have you tried visiting the site in a second browser without logging in? A “private” or “incognito” window should work as well. Wordfence skips the cache if you are logged into the site, or if you have logged out but haven’t completely exited your browser. (This prevents certain browser caching issues that would occur after logging out.)

If that’s not it, reinstalling Wordfence might fix the problem, but I am not sure. If you do reinstall, it is best to turn on the option “Delete Wordfence tables and data on deactivation” to get a clean install — but you would have to reset all of your settings, and manually blocked IPs (if any), this way.

Usually if .htaccess was changed by another method and lost the Falcon code, it would typically start working again when you disable and re-enable Falcon, like you did.

Can you see if the directory wp-content/wfcache/ still exists, and if there is content in it?

-Matt R

When I look in cache stats this is what it says: Total files in cache: 10
Total directories in cache: 5
Total data: 2415KB
Largest file: 510KB
Oldest file in cache created 13 mins ago.
Newest file in cache created 7 mins ago.

I use a plugin that gets status updates from FaceBook pages and posts them on the page. Maybe you’d get a better idea by looking at it. Maybe wordfence does not cache the FB feeds?

https://www.yecheadquarters.org/

Thanks for the link — it looks like it is working for me. A page itself takes only 300-500 ms to load, and that is the part that’s cached by Falcon (the HTML).

If you add a query string to a URLin your browser like /?nocache , then Falcon won’t serve a cached copy, and I was seeing pages taking 1.4 seconds to 1.7 seconds by that method.

It’s possible that the Facebook plugin is causing the cache to be cleared, so the first pageview after a new post may long, since the page has to be cached again. If you want to see which pages are being cached, Falcon can add an HTML comment at the end, which you can see if you view the page source — just turn on “Add a debugging comment to HTML source of cached pages” on the Performance Setup page.

-Matt R

So falcon cache on caches the html? Okay if that is so then do I need a fast cdn to serve up the rest?

Yes, Falcon caches the pages that are generated from WordPress, so the pages don’t have to be re-generated on each visit — on some hosts (and with a number of plugins enabled), generating a page can take 1-5 seconds, or sometimes even more, and usually serving a plain HTML file can reduce that significantly.

You can use a CDN to serve the rest of the assets. Depending on your host, it might make a difference, though some hosts are fast enough at serving static content that the difference is not noticeable.

-Matt R