WP Super Cache not reducing load times

  • Hi all I was hoping that someone could help me out. I have recently redesigned by WP blog, and decided to install WP SC so that the page size would be reduced and so page loading times would be a quick as posible for visitors, Alas this does not seam to be the case.

    After installing and configuring the plugin I see no reduction in the file sizes and loading time, for instance the homepage is 1133k with or without WP SC installed and takes arounf 2-3 seconds to be served. I have looked at the HTML output of the page and it says:

    <!-- Dynamic page generated in 0.757 seconds. -->
<!-- Cached page generated by WP-Super-Cache on 2009-12-05 13:27:35 -->
<!-- Compression = gzip -->

    I have made all the changes required to the htaccess file in theme/cache/ (see pastebin https://pastebin.com/f5e82be5f)

    and htaccess in root (see pastebin https://pastebin.com/f4390c6ec)

    If anyone can help that would be great

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  • WP SC complies pages into html and html.gz files, so the web server can serve those pages faster with less load on the server. The fact that the web server is compressing the served html files with gzip means you have reduced the size of the pages being served to visitors. Using gzip means the page will be served faster, and this will save you some bandwidth, the file will still be uncompressed on the visitor’s computer.

    The only way to really reduced the size of the homepage is to remove code that isn’t absolutely necessary, and to analyze the page with Yslow (which is a plugin for Firefox). Follow the recommendations in Yslow to help improve the speed of your web pages. I would not recommend using minify however, since it increases the CPU load, which WP SC reduces. In my experience, the additional resources used by minify doesn’t justify the additional cost of those resources. Some files, like the css, can be minified manually and then uploaded.

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