Cloudflare APO vs Page Caching by using Cloudflare Worker

  • Resolved moisture9063

    (@ngrhd)


    2 years ago

    I have a Cloudflare Business account and currently using their official plugin. Following are some reasons why I want to switch to this plugin:

    • For some reason, the plugin makes the backend atrociously slow (I believe it doesn’t whitelist the backend as this plugin does).
    • That plugin hasn’t been updated for a while, making me feel it has been abandoned.
    • It is incompatible with Nginx Helper and Redis Object Cache

    They also offer a customized solution specifically for WordPress called Cloudflare Automatic Platform Optimization (APO), which is currently active on my site. According to their documentation:

    Automatic Platform Optimization is the result of being able to use the power of Cloudflare Workers to intelligently cache dynamic content. By caching dynamic content, we can serve the entire website from our edge network. Think ‘static site’ but without any of the work of having to build or maintain a static site.

    Interestingly this solution has no limitations as it doesn’t consumes the daily 100,000 bundled request. Moreover, according to this page, the plugin also changes certain values in the dashboard, which I can replicate manually if I switch to this plugin.

    Could you please ascertain whether the APO is the same as the Page Caching by using Cloudflare Worker in this plugin?

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  • Plugin Contributor iSaumya

    (@isaumya)

    Hi @ngrhd,
    Thanks for dropping the message. This plugin has come a long way since the worker days. In fact, now a days I generally don’t recommend people to use the worker mode anymore as better option is available now.

    If you would like to use this plugin, I would suggest you to install, enable and setup the plugin with the default page rule mode. Do not enable the worker mode. After the plugin has been setup correctly, with the default page rule mode, then inside the plugin settings > Other tab scroll down to the option named Remove Cache Buster Query Parameter (screenshot: https://i.imgur.com/X8KmWRi.jpeg).

    Read the implementation guide (https://gist.github.com/isaumya/af10e4855ac83156cc210b7148135fa2) first and add the cache rules in your Cloudflare dashboard. Finally, enable the option inside the plugin settings.

    This will give you a better cache result than what you get with workers. I would highly recommend you to use it.

    Note: Before installing this plugin, please make sure that you have disabled APO from the Cloudflare dashboard and also uninstalled the default Cloudflare plugin.

    Thread Starter moisture9063

    (@ngrhd)

    This is great! Thank you for the implementation guide.

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