CloudFlare off

  • Resolved kreatsya

    (@kreatsya)


    6 years, 1 month ago

    Hello!

    I have CloudFlare activated and configured with a2 hosting and according to CloudFlare website everything is working fine. What bugs me is that when I go to W3 Total Cache General Settings, CloudFlare is enabled and I entered a valid API key, but security level, rocket loader and minification are all turned off (developement mode, too). I tried to turn them on and when I click save it’s back to off. Is that a problem or not?

    Thanks in advance

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  • Plugin Contributor Marko Vasiljevic

    (@vmarko)

    Hello,
    When you log in to Cloudflare account for your website and select “Speed” Are you able to change those three settings?
    Also, make sure to disable MInify setting in the W3 Total Cache as you don’t want to have it enabled along with Cloudflare minification

    Plugin Contributor Marko Vasiljevic

    (@vmarko)

    Hello @kreatsya,

    Was the issue resolved? Please reply to this topic so we can mark it as resolved or assist you further with this issue

    Thread Starter kreatsya

    (@kreatsya)

    Hello @vmarko,

    Unfortunatelly it didn’t go well with W3 Total Cache so my support from a2hosting installed LightSpeed Cache instead.

    bgdstr

    (@bogdanstratulat)

    I am sorry to hear about going with another plugin. I am going to mark this topic as resolved so if you have any additional questions, please feel free to ask.

    I was using W3 Total Cache configured to use AWS as a CDN and in combination with Cloudflare, and 2 different customer support representatives from SiteGround told me that they do not work together, in fact, they told me that deactivating w3tc was a requirement to use Cloudflare.

    I am actually making a very detailed analysis of the speed before and after w3tc deactivation and I am in shock. These are the results:

    In Page Details:
    a. Fully Loaded Time from 1.53s to 1.57s.
    b. Total Page Size from 380KB to 480KB
    c. Requests from 14 to 12

    In Page Speed A92% to A96%:
    a. 6 redirections disappeared taking “Minimize redirects” from D67% to A100%.
    b. “Specify a character set early” went down from A100 to A99.

    In YSlow B88% to A90%:
    a. Use a Content Delivery Network CDN from B80% to A90%.
    b. Reduce DNS lockups from A90% to A95%.
    c. Avoid URL redirects from B80% to A100%.

    In Waterfall:
    a. Now the first operation is <https://www.howtohealemotionalpain.com/&gt;; rel=shortlink which takes 1.04s to complete. Horrible!

    In Timing:
    a. TTFB from 364ms to 0.8s
    b. First Paint from 0.6s to 1.2s

    So, Cloudflare by itself does a pretty decent job without the need for w3tc to be present.

    I wish that I knew how to get rid of that rel=shortlink that kills the timing so badly!

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