lscache without plugin

actually, using the above directive to enable caching actually make the performance of the site worse.

• This reply was modified 2 years, 3 months ago by lordsnake.

Hi,

without plugin , you can only get the basic caching , and that line alone won’t work

you will need something like

RewriteRule .* - [E=Cache-Control:max-age=600]

to designate the URIs to be cached and TTL

and you can check the HTTP response header to make sure you see the cache hit

you need to take in mind to exclude something that should not be cached, like wp-admin , my-account, checkout and cart …etc

it’s better to use plugin to cache it

Best regards,

I cannot use a plugin as there is no plugin available. I am not using WordPRess.

okay , then I guess rewrite rule is the only way if it’s not supported CMS

here is some more example

so what I am not clear on is whether I have to use
CacheEnable public /

as well as
RewriteRule .* – [E=cache-control:max-age=300]

you need to enable both

first line is to tell server to enable cache engine

second line is to tell server , which URL to cache , and how long to cache.

I used this, but again, it has mad ethe performance worse, quite a lot worse.

<IfModule LiteSpeed>
  CacheEnable public /
  RewriteEngine On
  RewriteRule .* - [E=cache-control:max-age=14400]
</IfModule>

that’s weird

this directive only takes effect AFTER the page is cached

please check by http response header , to see if cache worked , and what is your webserver?

the response headers show

x-litespeed-cache: hit
x-turbo-charged-by: LiteSpeed

its litespeed webserver, obviously

what’s TTFB on main request with and without cache?

here is the gtmetrix scores

https://gtmetrix.com/reports/kopage.uk/AdUaOY75/

While the gtmetrix score for the site is obviously great without lscache, the pagespeed insight score are not. Thus why I am looking to make improvements.

pagespeed insights is not giving me a TTFB
https://pagespeed.web.dev/report?url=https%3A%2F%2Fkopage.uk%2F&form_factor=mobile

no , cache itself doesn’t optimize the page structure or its content , it just cache the output

• This reply was modified 2 years, 3 months ago by qtwrk.

I know, but if caching actually makes the page slower, whats the point?

Please give me a GTMetrix report with cache hit