Settings for Caching Plugin

Anonymous

#242391

Hi,

I am using Swift Lite caching plugin on a website – everything loads fast apart from the S&F filters they take a while to filter the products – example https://beautybliss.net.au/shop/

Whats is the optimal setting or general recommendation when working with caching plugins for the S&F filtering?

Thanks

Trevor

#242397

Caching plugins have little effect on ‘results’ pages, as they are dynamic. The data has to be fetched from the SQL database, assembled using PHP, and then delivered. Thus it is the server configuration that is key.

Many low cost hosting ‘solutions’ (especially so-called ‘Managed WordPress Hosting’ packages) are not very good when it comes to this aspect of sites.

It is a dark art, involving nginx, memcache, varnish, redis (also requires a Redis Object Cache plugin in WordPress) and (if possible) elasticsearch (if you have the option to have this on your server, you can add support in WordPress and in our queries). Also, some hosts will cache the WordPress tables in local memory.

Anonymous

#242738

Thanks for explaining Trevor, so yes caching doesn’t come into play here, all direct queries to the db, yes I have found that the plugin works faster on a host like Cloudways which has redis plugin than a regular shared cPanel host.

Trevor

#242751

Cloudways is a good environment (I use it also), so Redis is available, plus they use all the server software I mentioned. In testing I have done, their own Breeze cache plugin is marginally faster than most others.

I will close this thread for now.

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