Does “Guest Mode” make a difference on site with no user-specific pages?

  • Resolved Arnd Zanduino

    (@zanduino)


    1 year, 5 months ago

    I have an extensive website (Zanshin Sailing) which I would like to have load as quickly as possible. The site is purely informative, with no cookies or logins or localized content – each user with the same device type settings sees an identical page.

    Using just performance as a metric, does it make sense to activate the “Guest Mode” for this site?

    From reading the documentation, it sounds like with the “Guest Mode” enabled a page is immediately served from cache, then an Ajax call is made to the server and exactly the same page would be sent again, is that correct? So I would gain a faster response time and the backend would do a big of extra (and unnecessary) work?

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  • Plugin Support qtwrk

    (@qtwrk)

    not exactly , the guest mode page will also come with heavy optimization , but redirected normal page may have less-optimization in comparison

    Thread Starter Arnd Zanduino

    (@zanduino)

    Thanks for getting back to me; but I’m not quite sure if that answer means that using the “guest mode” will give users a quicker and better experience, or if it makes little or no difference. Again, the extra pages in cache and on the server aren’t the issue; it revolves around what the user experiences.

    Plugin Support qtwrk

    (@qtwrk)

    I can not just simply say yes or no , you could try use your own browser , check on both cases with cache generated , see how both cases goes , but personally I would like to keep guest mode

    Thread Starter Arnd Zanduino

    (@zanduino)

    It seems that the answer is that I should “try it out”. I had hoped for a more definitive answer; I thought that on a site with no personalized pages the original guest-mode page would be identical to the served by the ajax call.

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