Hello guys, just wondering if this would be expected, I have everything running as default on Cloudflare, and we have an SSL cert on our domain, went full SSL on Cloudflare and the cached requests seem to be a fraction of actual requests, is this normal for a site running Cloudflare for approx 1 week now?. I understand there are a whole host of settings in the Cloudflare dashboard which we could likely tweak, namely page rules, etc, but my concern is that as we are running an ecommerce site (prestashop) Iām a tad apprehensive of caching āallā as I know this would affect a lot of dynamic pages, something which we canāt do, and I understand we could exclude the likes of the login page, etc, but still, Iām certain if we cache all we will likely run into an issue somewhere so Iām wondering are the āuncachedā requested a result of everything dynamic that isnāt cached, or am I sniffing glue and way off the mark here?. Any advice welcome 
NB - in the last 24 hours weāve had nearly 5000 uncached requests, and 940 cached.
Cheers
Marko
Domain?
Weāre at amicasoap.co.uk 
I only checked your main page but as far as I can tell your cacheable resources all seem to get properly cached.
Thanks for taking the time to check sandro, Iām kinda thinking itās probably because weāre purely running on cached static content, but I wouldnāt have thought dynamic content or HTML would have resulted in so many requests, but the speed is great, the site is working and Iām delighted with the results so far, just wanted to make sure we werenāt missing anything. Probably me just trying to be greedy and looking to see more cached results lol, cheers for that anyway
Marko
One would probably need to check the entire site for caching hits, but your main page looks all right so far. Can you check your other pages and whether their resources also get cached properly?
It does appear weāre getting a hit on all the other pages too, so would be fair to assume Cloudflare is doing itās job, the thing that does confuse me a tad is if we test an example page (https://amicasoap.co.uk/african-black/55-african-black-shampoo-bar-with-shea-butter-vegan.html) the results come back as a hit, but the breakdown of the page content comes back with around 50% image, with HTML taking around 10% only, surely thatās not indicative of a low cache rate on the dashboard?. I might be mis-understanding the cache dashboard on Cloudflare, but if we say as a minimum Cloudflare is caching images only, and no JS or CSS (obviously not HTML) then my maths would say roughly a 50/50 ratio of cache/non-cache, but the dashboard indicates a much lower cache return?.
ā¦ hold the bus, Iāve just looked at the Analytics on CF again and in the past few hours it does appear our cache is rising!!. For example, yesterday we were getting around 31/248 ratio, in the past few hours weāre seeing 146/183 which is probably more than I would have expected now given my train of thought above, but overall in the past 24 hours weāre showing 1310 cached and 4655 uncached ā¦ could it be the cache still needs time, or are we too early in the stats to come to a conclusion
Marko
Do your visitors come from different regions or rather from a relatively homogeneous set of locations?
If it is the former, it can take some time until all Cloudflare datacentres have your files cached and until then cache requests will be a MISS.
If they are all from the UK (and assuming they all are routed via UK datacentres) that should be less of an issue, however Cloudflare still has three datacentres in the UK (Edinburgh, London, and Manchester) and these three still to populate their caches as well.
Ahh!, well we do attract a lot of visitors from all over the world, USA particularly but mostly UK and Europe so we do have a mixed bag so to speak but the cache is def performing better today than in previous days, could be as you say, sporadic regions ā¦
In that case it could simply have been that it took some time until the major datacentres had their caches populated. Just make sure you have no page rule configured which might artificially lower your edge cache TTL and you should be fine.
Thanks for that, weāve just left the page rules alone, nothing in place there at all
Thanks again for the advice
Marko
This topic was automatically closed after 30 days. New replies are no longer allowed.