Question Guest Full Page Caching - Any potential issues when long setting used (60 minutes)?

[Marvin Hlavac]

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[Fillip H.]

The only downside would be that stuff like new threads etc would not show up until the cache expired or was flushed via some other means, AFAIK

 

[Fillip H.]

You probably could, but it's not something we support and we can unfortunately not assist with customisations of such a huge nature

 

[Fillip H.]

That would go against the purpose of caching for guests, so unfortunately not, no

 

[Fillip H.]

The only problem with your request is that it would completely undermine the reason why GFPC was created in the first place - to turn dynamic content into static content but (by default) not let it go too stale.

 

[Cosmic]

I don't think the slight modification I'm proposing would in any way go against the idea behind GFPC. The vast majority of guests would still be served fully-cached pages. I'm only suggesting that the GFPC feature doesn't simply serve static pages to anyone who is not logged in, but instead it should check if their browser has a cookie from an earlier visit. If it does, the guest should be served a not-fully cached page. If a cookie is not present, it should be treated as a first time visitor, and s/he should be served fully-cached pages.

Hi Marvin,

The only problem with that idea is you would only ever receive the benefit of caching on the very first page a guest landed on.

There is no way to check when a cookie was generated. What this means in practice is a new guest would be served cached content on his first page, but any page he visits after that would be completely uncached, just like for a registered user.

This would essentially make the guest caching feature useless since it would only apply on the very first page a guest landed on. Unless your site has an astoundingly high bounce rate, it would save very few queries.

With that being said, if you submit it as a feature request we will look into it for the next version assuming it wouldn't be too time intensive.

Cosmic