I recently set up Cache Everything.
Some pages on the website get low traffic, so the cache is usually missed for them.
After activating Cache Everything, even when the cache is missed, the HTML loads much faster:
(Although it says BYPASS, there isn’t a BYPASS rule. A refresh gets a MISS and another refresh gets a HIT. That’s weird, but not related to the question).
The result is consistent and the difference is substantial.
I would like to understand it if possible. It feels counterintuitive - if anything Cache Everything should increase the loading time on a MISS (adding the time it took to search for the cached version, which doesn’t exist).
How can it be explained?