Full Page Cache Warmer for Magento 2

To make your online store run faster, you should use several different types of Magento 2 cache. One of the most effective sorts of cache is the full page cache. Of course, Magento 2 provides this type of cache: when opening the page for the first time, it is automatically added to the cache, and then after refreshing the page content, returns from out of the cache in little to no time.

But there is still one significant issue: cache is frequently cleared. This can happen when:

• you make changes to the product pages or categories
• you make any other changes within the store
• you run reindex
• cache is cleared by its lifetime (usually every X hours)

In the instance mentioned above, if your online customers visit your store and observe that the pages are loading slowly (for the first time, at least), those customers may become disappointed with their browsing experience, thereby, decreasing your number of orders and revenue amassed.

The same occurs when a Google bot visits your online store, sees pages running slowly, and lowers your shop SERP ranking.

The Magento external full page cache extension prevents all these issues from occurring and increases your Magento store page's speed several times over. Our Magento Full Page Cache extension works with the following types of store pages:

• Product pages
• Category pages
• Layered Navigation
• CMS pages
• Blog pages

Page Cache Warmer is compatible with Varnish Cache, default File Cache, Redis Cache, and others.

You don't need to do anything while using our daily solution, as our extension is fully automated and restores your store's cache automatically.

Just specify which page types should not be cached, and that's it, the extension will continue its fully automatic work

The Magento Full Page Cache module operates in the background. You are free to make any changes to the interface of your online store, and it won't affect the extension functioning in any way since all the module's workflows are carried out in the background. The tasks of cache warming are run in a timely manner by Cron.

This feature can be quite useful if you don't like viewing an excessive number of windows and reminders on your desktop.

The caching process in a Magento shop can depend on the caching application you're using, such as Varnish. If this application is misconfigured, pages may not be placed in cache, and your shop may demonstrate a page loading slowdown.

Verify for yourself that full page caching in your store works correctly using the test page that the Full Page Cache Warmer module provides. This page refreshes automatically, and displays the current status of the full page cache.

It can often be very time-consuming to warm every page in your store. In these instances, you're probably eager to speed up the warming process, warming only high-priority pages. The extension allows you to create your own lists of pages for warming.

For example, take the extension can warm pages from your sitemap. Alternatively, you can create a CSV file with the most important pages. You can also use your own lists of pages in warming rules of our extension. For example, the extension can warm high-priority pages in the first run through, and later all other pages.

The flexible control on page lists for warming allows you to speed up warming as well as decrease the server load.

Fast web page loading speed can be achieved when the server is not overloaded, thus balancing the server load is important.

The Full Page Cache Warmer extension offers a graph for displaying the average system load, which is useful in identifying bottlenecks. Such a bottleneck can be caused by basic server activity and simultaneous caching processes. In this case, it is wise to disable cache creation during load periods.

Such a bottleneck can be caused by basic server activity and simultaneous caching processes. In this case, it is wise to disable cache creation during load periods.

With a Full Page Cache Warmer extension, configure the cache warming rules depending on page attributes like customer group, page type, page popularity, page URL, product type, Store View, and cache triggering source. Flexibly combine those attributes in a cache warming condition that will help keep the cache updated for the most important pages and customers.

Additionally, for each cache warming rule, you can set modified HTTP headers by request. Use this option, for example, to accept gzip page encoding to save bandwidth and increase page loading speed.

Default Magento skips caching some pages, or some pages' blocks that you may need to be cached. With our caching extension, you can forcibly make pages cacheable. You are free to cache all pages in your store or configure the page types which will be made cacheable.

With the Magento Full Page Cache Hole Punch option, you can flexibly configure the parts of the pages that should be excluded from caching. The Hole Punch feature of our module does micro-level management of page blocks. It can be extremely useful for those stores that have complex pages constructed from multiple templates and blocks.

This option allows you to seriously optimize each of your store views with support for the corresponding Magento Store View functionality.

Decrease the load on your server by excluding certain web crawler robots from triggering the page re-caching. In the Magento Full Page Cache settings, specify the list of user-agents to be excluded. Use regular expressions to flexibly define the excluded user-agents.

With the Full Page Cache Warmer module, you can save disk space on your server for multi-store shops. Avoid the creation and storing on disk of several copies of cached pages for Magento installations with multiple store views. Set up the Full Page Cache Warmer extension so as to use the same cache for new visitors even when they are from a different Store View.

Beside the visual control interface in the Magento backend admin panel of your store, the Full Page Cache Warmer extension offers rich control options via the command line interface. Use it to quickly crawl the cacheable pages, warm the cached pages, crawl cacheable pages on behalf of a specific customer group or for a given store view, and much more.

Cache flushing is a regular operation in Magento, but if it is performed too often, it can have a direct impact on server performance. With our Cache Warmer extension, you can monitor the cache flushing using the Fill Rate graph.

If the flushing is performed too often, use the debugging tools the Cache Warmer provides to determine the cause of this behavior. You may need to reconfigure your Magento so that the cache will be flushed less frequently. If such reconfiguration is impossible for any reason, use the Cache Warmer to forbid cache flushing.

Our module cannot be the cause of cache flushing since it does not have the means for cache flushing.

Spend less time searching for clues to problems with the caching process in your store. With the Full Page Cache Warmer, you get built-in tools for debugging cache related problems. Analyze logs for cache warming requests and cache flushing.

You can monitor a cache status of the page in the store frontend. Configure the module so that the infobox with the cache status is visible only to specified IP-addresses. Use a designated test page to check if the Full Page Cache Warming module works correctly.

Keep an eye on the caching process with the built-in Efficiency Report and know that you have the best caching efficiency possible. Get information on non-cached and cached pages' response time, and how many hits and misses there were for cached pages for any particular timeframe.

Get the caching Efficiency Report in graphical form for fast analysis or check out the detailed data in the table below. Export the data to a CSV or XML file format for storage or further analysis using external tools.

A Full Page Cache Magento 2 allows you to manage the priority of cached content with great efficiency.

There are a few types of priorities available in our solution:

• Page popularity (number of visits)
• Page type (category, product, CMS page, layered navigation, etc.)
• Product type
• Customer Group

Cache Prioritization allows you to put the right stress on the most high-demand pages. For example, one of the most visited store pages might be your Sale/Promotion page. As such, you can set a higher priority for it and provide your customers with the best loading speed for this content!

A Full Magento 2 Cache Warmer can create a cache version of any newly-saved page. For example, you can create a new product (category, or any other store page) or edit existing ones. Next, visit this page as a customer so that the page will appear indexed by our module. Alternatively, you can wait for a crawler to find the page, or it will be added during the synchronization of the Full Page Cache Warmer sources on Cron task.

You can create pages/categories/products in your store, and the Full Page Cache Warmer will do the rest for you after a while. You can also visit the new page to speed up its caching.