Hi! I’ve been researching a lot about BeeBom.com fast connectivity. But, I am very much shocked that their first time visit is also very fast and TTFB (Time To First Byte) is very impressive.
CMS: WordPress
DNS Management: Cloudflare
Cloudflare’s: Rocket Loader is active.
Host: I don’t know. They used to use Digitial Ocean before and before that AWS.
Cache Plugin: None (WordPress)\
Static Files (imgs, css, js): Loading from BeeBom.com only (Base Domain). No CDN domain or Cloudflare’s.
Web Server: I don’t know.
How is that possible that this website is loading like a Rocket in browser? I have never seen such fast loading WordPress Website. Their TTFB is consistent, their GTMetrix Load Time is good too. Browser Caching is best I have seen. Please make me understand how all this is happening?
You’d need to set up a cache everything page rule that covers your entire site (/*) but be aware that will really keep everything cached, so updates to your site wont immediately show up. Also, if you have any logins that would be an issue as that output would be cached too. On a purely anonymous site it should work though.
That could still be an issue. You’d need to edit your site via an unproxied record in that case, otherwise your login might get cached.
First of all, you should work on your server in that case. Second, if everything is served by the proxy the response will be naturally faster as Cloudflare doesnt contact your server.
Please use the search and support.cloudflare.com. That is a basic question about how Cloudflare works and all explained there.
Thats something you need to ask them, but minification is not necessarily speeding things up.
Thats not really accurate. The main document loads quite fast. The entire site takes about two seconds.
But, yes, the site loads fast and that is because of caching.
I actually made another page rule to not to cache domain.com/wp-admin* which actually helps in that regards.
Hmm, That’s the issue. If you could tell me what part of the server you’re referring to? Yes, my whole website is proxy by Cloudflare (Orange Cloud in DNS).
No. I didn’t meant to ask how cloudflare works in general. I meant to ask how BeeBom.com with Cloudflare is working? What kind of caching is that? I want to know the technical term name here and it’s technicality of how is it working so fast?
In general, your configuration appears (based on your statements) to have room for improvement and you should first work on getting your serrver to respond faster.
There is only one kind of caching. You either cache on the proxies or you dont, hence please check out support.cloudflare.com.
I’ve implemented the page cache few minutes back only. If you mind telling me? How much time I should give to propagate it to the cloudflare’s servers world-wide?
Also, Is there any possibility we could know if they are using any other sort of premium cloudflare features to boost the website speed?
Basic Question: If CloudFlare is loading everything (Cache Everything), Why we need to work on Physical VPS Server? Since, whatever user will see is going to be on the CloudFlare’s Server.
That should work pretty instantaneously. Whats your domain?
Because you generally want a properly working server as well. What if you move away from Cloudflare? If none of that is of concern your server could also take 20 seconds to respond, the cache would mitigate that, however once the cache expires the first request will still take 20 seconds.
I wouldnt call these bad. Even the 1 second one is not that bad.
It simply might that this service requested the page from PoPs where it hasnt been fully cached yet. You do appear to cache the entire page and the loading time well beyond a second, so there shouldnt be much more to do.