Help Appreciated | Cloudflare (Full Page Caching)

I will not follow your numeration order but I will address everything ??

There’s full page caching on SiteGround and full page caching on CloudFlare. Both work in a very similar way using headers. It doesn’t matter if you use our implementation (workers) or Page Rules – it is just the way this cache is handled but it is the same full page caching.

If you get a CF cached hit it will have exactly the same loading speed no matter if the page was cached because of a page rule or a worker.

Since both work with headers, our exclude systems work for CF too including default excludes and all the logic behind SGO.

Now…memcached handles dynamic requests only, it is an object caching so you need the PHP to query the MySQL in order to get improvements. This means it will start working for logged users, excluded pages, etc.

IF YOU NEED to use a CDN in general, I recommend using full page caching. That’s because if you are only caching the static assets a request goes:

User -> CF Edge -> SG Server (cached or not) -> CF Edge -> User

while if you have full page caching it is:

User -> CF Edge -> User

which results in much better TTFB. Actually, if your SG is hosted in Europe for example, and your visitors are from Europe, if you enable CF without full page caching, all those people in Europe will load your site slower than without CF ??

@hristo-sg,

Brilliant. Great reply. It answered our concerns and questions.

We’ll switch to Full Page Caching this week. If no improvements noticed (from our Global customers), I expect you to buy me a Kamenitza (or two).

Also, to help you and your customers a bit on this topic, we had expressed concern over losing our Page Rules when we switch to Full Page Caching. Well, we have mitigated our concern (i.e., restoring our Page Rules) by putting together a small procedure (provided below) that will allow customers to print, save, or email their Page Rules prior to switching to Full Page Caching.

Again, thank you!

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How to Print, Save, or Email Your Cloudflare Page Rules:

(1) Install the browser extension or add-on, “Print Friendly & PDF”.
(2) Proceed to your CF Dashboard (Rules).
(3) Click anywhere inside your Page Rules window.
(4) Click on the “Print Friendly & PDF” icon (top of browser, a pop-up will appear).
(5) Click on “Print”, “PDF”, or “Email” to suit your needs.

Notes:

(a) The extension or add-on is available for all major browsers.
(b) Above procedure will grab all Page Rules at once.

Hi @hristo-sg,

OK, so we finally switched to Cloudflare’s Full Page Caching.

So far, everything is running great.

Your patience and insistence that we get rid of WP Rocket and switch to Cloudflare’s Full Page Caching (Workers) is paying off.

Old dogs are hard to train, but they’re still trainable ??

Thank you!