No "Age" and X-Header "Miss"

Website, Application, Performance
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What is the name of the domain?

What is the issue you’re encountering

No “Age” and “X-Header=Miss”

What steps have you taken to resolve the issue?

Hey guys,

i am Running APO on Wordpress.

I am getting “Hit” but No “Age” on almost all Sites. (some e.g. “Home” have Age)
Strange: If i press F5 “Age” starts, but the sites have been visitied 100% before of any users…
Question:

  • I this expected as APO dont Cache HTML? (but why Age starts at a certain point then?) :confused:

Also, the X-Header shows “Miss” also after Purging Cache etc. I am using Redis Object Cache and thought this should Cache before…
Question:

  • Is this related to the “Age” (i dont think so)
  • Is this X-Header a problem at all?)

Thx

What are the steps to reproduce the issue?

Go to any Post, check Header :slight_smile:

Screenshot of the error

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I didn’t on the first try:

> GET / HTTP/2
> Host: www.bergtour-online.de
> User-Agent: curl/8.7.1
> Accept: */*
> 
* Request completely sent off
< HTTP/2 200 
< date: Fri, 24 Jan 2025 14:35:33 GMT
< content-type: text/html; charset=UTF-8
< cf-ray: 9070c02a88e0100f-LAX
< cf-cache-status: HIT
< cache-control: max-age=120

But I did on the second:

> GET / HTTP/2
> Host: www.bergtour-online.de
> User-Agent: curl/8.7.1
> Accept: */*
> 
* Request completely sent off
< HTTP/2 200 
< date: Fri, 24 Jan 2025 14:35:39 GMT
< content-type: text/html; charset=UTF-8
< cf-ray: 9070c0536daae9e1-LAX
< cf-cache-status: HIT
< age: 6
< cache-control: max-age=120

This means that the first request came from tiered caching, so it was a HIT, but the LAX colo didn’t have it locally. Now it does, so it’s adding an Age header.

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ok thx @sdayman, one Q: i thought cloudflare delivers automatically to several locations, not Sure what you mean with “Lax colo”? :slight_smile:

So everything as expected? Thx :slight_smile:

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Nope. Cloudflare is not a Push CDN. Requests will pull the content to their local datacenter (colo). In my case, it’s LAX, and it had to pull from the upper tier since LAX cache didn’t have it.

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@sdayman ok got it, thans. So i should not worry, right :slight_smile:

Do you have an opinion on x-header: any issue at all?

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