SG Optimizer and Cloudflare (Full Page Caching)

  • Resolved jetxpert

    (@jetxpert)


    3 years, 7 months ago

    Good Day!

    There appears to be only one article (listed below) that describes SG Optimizer’s feature, Cloudflare (Full Page Caching). Unfortunately, it does not include information that may be helpful to many plugin users.

    Based on the above, it would be great if SiteGround can answer the following questions:

    (1) How much faster is SGO Cloudflare (Full Page Caching) vs. Cloudflare (Page Rules)? Your article does not provide any metrics, benchmarks, numbers, or percentages. Data appreciated.

    (2) SGO Cloudflare (Full Page Caching) — when activated — deletes all Cloudflare Page Rules. Further, the Page Rules are not restored when SGO Cloudflare (Full Page Caching) is deactivated. What are your recommendations for preserving and/or restoring Cloudflare’s Page Rules? (other than recreating them manually, which is quite painful when you’re using 15+ Page Rules)

    (3) How does SGO Cloudflare (Full Page Caching) treat dynamic content? (e.g., website pages using Gravity Forms, User Logins, Booking Forms, WooCommerce payments pages, Calendars, etc.). Is the entire page still cached (regardless of each individual plugin’s cache/no-cache settings)?

    (4) SGO Cloudflare (Full Page Caching via CDN’s Workers) has a limit of 100,0000 requests/day and 1000 requests/minute. Exceeding these limits will require upgrading to a more expensive Cloudflare plan and/or pay extra for exceeding these limits. What tools does SG recommend to determine our website’s hits per day or per minute?

    (5) If we’re using SGO’s Dynamic Cache and MemCached successfully (as well as Cloudflare caching via Page Rules), do you still recommend activating SGO’s Cloudflare (Full Page Caching)? If so, why? Please be specific (numbers, data, etc.). For example, % increase in TTFB, Lighthouse Performance Scores, WebPageTest Scores, GTMetrix Scores, etc.

    (6) What percentage of SG customers are currently using SGO’s Cloudflare (Full Page Caching) feature? Publishing metrics (e.g., pie charts, etc.) showing how SG customers are using your plugin and respective settings would be beneficial to many.

    Thank you in advance for your help. It would be great if you can “pin” this topic. Will help many long term.

    Cheers!

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    https://www.siteground.com/tutorials/wordpress/sg-optimizer/cloudflare-full-page-caching-sg-optimizer/

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  • Plugin Author Hristo Pandjarov

    (@hristo-sg)

    SiteGround Representative

    Thanks for the recommendation. We will consider creating such an article ??

    Thread Starter jetxpert

    (@jetxpert)

    @hristo-sg,

    Thank you. Looking forward to your article. Opinions confuse, facts convince.

    Cheers!

    Thread Starter jetxpert

    (@jetxpert)

    @hristo-sg,

    Update:

    You may know about this already, but the article provided below is EXCELLENT. It answers most – if not all – questions raised in my original post.

    https://kinsta.com/blog/cloudflare-apo-wordpress/#how-to-use-cloudflare-automatic-platform-optimization-for-wordpress

    Again, we look forward to SiteGround publishing a similar – if not better – article related to SG Optimizer’s Cloudflare setting, Cloudflare APO (Full Page Caching), and performance data collected by SiteGround for websites using your plugin’s Cloudflare feature.

    Again, thank you!

    Is there any update on this from SG?

    Those question I would have asked if I didn’t find the thread. Seems there is no update to this. Mostly interested in questions answered 3, 2, 1 in priority order

    Thread Starter jetxpert

    (@jetxpert)

    Update:

    After fixing an issue we had with SGO’s Combine JS feature, we were finally able to get rid of WP Rocket and, instead, switch to SGO (100%) and Cloudflare’s Full Page Caching.

    So far, our website is running great (speed improvement is yet to be determined), but glad we got rid of WP Rocket. One less plugin (and headache) to manage.

    For those of you who are still interested in answers to the above questions we raised, please refer to this forum topic.

    For now (and for us), this issue is Resolved.

    Cheers!

    etheos

    (@etheos)

    Oh good god yes we need more of a knowledge base and help tips in the SG Optimizer plugin on all this!

    I was super annoyed that the Full Page Caching in Cloudflare setting in SG Optimizer for WordPress does not tell you that you’re existing page rules will be lost. That’s huge if you have unique rules setup to make site’s function!

    I also then got the surprise email the next day from CF telling me I was about to exceed worker limits. And I have no idea if any of this is doing anything good for my site overall VS other caching settings.

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