Low caching from Cloudflare

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#1

Hi everyone,

I’ve just enabled Cloudflare for my domain and looking at the cache vs uncached usage under Analytics > Web Traffic, I’m getting incredibly low cache rates 215k Uncached vs 756 Cached.

cloudflare-cache-stats
cloudflare-cache-stats1037×685 40 KB

The main site is https://web-push-book.gauntface.com/ and this is an example set of response headers for the HTML page:

alt-svc: h3-27=":443"; ma=86400, h3-28=":443"; ma=86400, h3-29=":443"; ma=86400
cache-control: 'max-age=86400'
cf-cache-status: DYNAMIC
cf-ray: 5d23b3b8fa94090d-SEA
cf-request-id: 052a2ea79d0000090decb2a200000001
content-encoding: br
content-type: text/html
date: Sun, 13 Sep 2020 17:48:57 GMT
expect-ct: max-age=604800, report-uri="https://report-uri.cloudflare.com/cdn-cgi/beacon/expect-ct"
last-modified: Sun, 13 Sep 2020 17:31:38 GMT
server: cloudflare
status: 200

I’d love any advice or input on how to improve the caching / make it more reliable.

Thanks,
Matt

#2

HTML is not cached by Cloudflare. If you want that you’ll need a page rule.

Your JavaScript files, for example, are cached however

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#3

Thank you so much!

Just followed the steps on this support page and got a HIT for the HTML page.

#4

Yes, HTML is cached now as well. Keep in mind any changes on your site will only be reflected after you clear the cache. Just one thing to remember.

#5

So will this not follow the max-age header and cache for the defined period? Which in my case should be a day?

#6

after you clear the cache or the resource expires

I meant to say :slight_smile:

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#7

Thank you again for your help and follow up!

My content is not that important or updated that frequently, so 24 hours is just fine for me :slight_smile:

#8

Then you are good to go :slight_smile:

#9

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