Full Page Cache

Why are website speed and page load times are so important?

Website speed and page load time is definitely a driving force behind your website visitors behavior that directly defines the success of your business and online store sales.

Let's take an example from Walmart. When they found out that compared to eBay, Amazon etc., they were not the fastest retail site on the internet, they decided to overhaul their site speed. As a result: For every 1 second of improvement they experienced up to a 2% increase in conversions. Also, for every 100 ms of improvement, they grew incremental revenue by up to 1%.

Search engines routinely fall back on page load times in their rankings, as they assume the responsibility of optimal search results. Favoring fast sites over slower ones, a search engine meets the main goal of keeping customers content with the results delivered.

This is where Magento website performance is really crucial as it is what drives conversion rates and brings revenue to online businesses.

How the extension works

The principle applied with Full Page Cache follows a common pattern. When a user is visiting a website page for the first time, Magento generates and delivers this page to the visitor and automatically saves a copy of it to the cache. Then, all those pages just get stored in a cache. Each subsequental time the user request arrives, the system does not request Magento to generate a page, but returns the copy of the page from cache.

This greatly reduces database and server load. Once the server generates a page it does not need to generate it again and again, it simply returns only cached copies - immediately. An extension is significantly increasing the load speed of the Magento store and improve cache hit rate.

Key features

• Response time for cached pages is less than 0.3 sec.

  Response time for Default Magento, for instance, comes up to 2-8 sec. By applying this module you can simply make your Magento e-store 6-25 times faster.

• Full page cache for any page of your e-store

  The module makes it possible to have almost every page of your website stored in cache, it can be products, categories, CMS pages and even pages of 3rd party modules.

• Allows to exclude certain pages from cache

  If pages get refreshed very often and there is a need to exclude a certain page or specific group of pages from cache, an extension provides you with very flexible configuration options that enable such exclusion setup.

• Support of themes for mobile devices

  The module fully supports working with different themes for mobile devices. While caching, it takes into account the browser User-Agent.

• Performance Chart

• Supports different types of cache:

  • Memcache (with multiple server support)
  • Apc
  • Redis (with multiple server support)
  • File Cache
  • Database

  All the above options can assure you that the module will work perfectly with any configuration of your server!

• Support of multi-domains, multi-stores, multi-languages and multi-customer groups

• Reduces the load on the server and database

  It proves to be cost-effective when you have to apply less powerful servers.

  Due to the fact that the module allows the server to generate a page only once (and not repeatedly like default Magento), it significantly reduces the server load. You will are able to use a less powerful server and significantly save.

• Automatic clearing related cache when you change products, categories, etc

  After adding changes to a product, a category, or a CMS page, the module will clear up the cache records that relate to the modified object.

  This feature is what will keep you confident that you site provides your customers with the most recent data.

• Build-in crawler to keep cache up to date

  The module features the built-in mechanism that automatically creates cache and regularly refreshes it. It can be set to operate for specific time intervals when site traffic is low. It crawls all the site pages giving the visitors the most recent versions. Opening a pre-cached page, a visitor will always get it in an instant.

  • Crawls the most critical pages: CMS pages, Products, Categories, Layered navigation etc
  • Crawls as quickly as possible using multiple crawler threads
  • Detailed crawling statistics

• Support for nginx, apache, litespeed, etc