PressCACHE™ is our caching mechanism used at Pagely and is backed by NGINX‘s powerful and robust caching technology. This is a key component of our architecture that produces extremely fast performance for your WordPress sites. Settings are accessed directly via your WordPress admin screens where you may turn it on/off, or enable developer mode. There is really nothing else to do other than turn it on, and enjoy the speed.
How PressCACHE™ Works
Cache will not be served if:
- The site is in preview mode.
- They are logged into Wordpress, due to the possibility of user-specific content on the page.
- They have a cookie marking them as a commenter, since all comment forms will populate with the user’s name and email.
- They have a PHP session started, as serving cache may expose private data from pulling a value unique to the user and their session.
- It is not a GET request, such as a POST request.
If it is safe to serve a cached page, a key is built which represents the page. With that, a check is done to ensure a copy of the page already exists in the cache. If it exists, it is served from the cache. Otherwise, the page is processed normally and as long as the page does not return an error or set cookies, a new copy of the page will be added to cache before serving the results.
How Does PressCACHE Improve the Performance of My WordPress Site?
Having the right caching and CDN base can yield extreme dividends to your website visitors.
PressCACHE™ is the number one component of our architecture and service to expedite performance without paying for additional hardware. Any relevant assets are automatically purged anytime you modify or publish a WordPress post.
For starters, you can realize greater throughput and consistent, fast response times once leveraging PressCACHE™. This is because the NGINX layer can skip requesting any assets already stored in cache, causing less communication to be needed between the origin server and the end user — maximizing your performance.
As you really start to scale up your WordPress site, PressCACHE™ can handle hundreds of requests per second easily when working with cacheable content.
Going Beyond the Technology
Beyond these benefits, the other critical asset Pagely customers have to leverage for optimized performance is our heralded technical team. We offer deep insights into the root causes of any website slowdown. We can often analyze and create an action plan for eliminating bottlenecks in minutes, and for more complex situations, we are used to digging into the low-level details, utilizing our homegrown and off-the-shelf monitoring and diagnostic tools to get to the root cause. The Pagely team routinely solves caching conundrums that other hosts fail to diagnose, let alone recognize and understand.
To learn more about how Pagely’s special forces can help elevate the status of your WordPress web properties, please contact sales.