Full Page Cache by Amasty
Full Page Cache by Amasty
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Why a Magento website has to use a page cache booster?
When you want to make money, you need to provide customers with ease and comfort when navigating your website. A slight delay in product page load, during search operation or while browsing your catalog may result in a lost customer. Forever.
Magento by itself has a caching mechanism, but it does not cache pages. We’ve run a test to check how the FPC affects page serving time.
How does the Full Page Cache work?
When you don’t have FPC extension installed, each time a visitor comes to any page of your website, Magento first reads a bunch of configuration files to check which blocks need to be displayed on the page. After that Magento takes each block and starts “generating” it and placing on the page. This all takes much time.
With the Full Page Cache extension, when a visitor comes to any page of your website, the extension already has a ready page to serve. The page had been prepared and saved into cache with the very first visit, so Magento did all the rendering work only once as opposed to each time someone opens the page.
Thus it saves up to 1-3 seconds on each page request. Respect your customers’ time and they will literally pay you back.
Immediate Page Load
According to our research and tests, regular product view page in Magento takes around 2.2 seconds to load. Using our FPC extension, it takes 45 ms (0.045s) to load the page, which is more than 40 times faster.
Therefore having the same server hardware and configuration, your website can serve much more pages from cache, saving more money.
You can specify the time period for updating your cache. It will be updated as often as you choose. This will help to keep your data up to date with minimum speed loss. The feature is useful when your website gets updated not only via admin panel (e.g. when products are imported by some automatic script). Changes done via Magento admin panel get cached immediately.
Support for Dynamic BlocksYou’re in control of whether to use dynamic blocks or not. The Full Page Cache extension completely supports caching of dynamic blocks, serving both page and blocks from cache.
Dynamic blocks, such as shopping cart sidebar block, shopping cart floating window, logged in customer welcome message, and others are cached separately for each visitor of your website. And when some page is served from cache, dynamic blocks are being injected automatically into the “holes”. This is also known as holes punch feature.
Moreover, dynamic blocks of 3-rd party extensions are also supported. Specific behavior for such blocks may be configured on advanced level within the extension configuration file.
You might want to disable support of dynamic blocks completely if your custom theme does not use them, or if caching of third-party blocks works incorrectly.
SEO Improvement
Speed is one of the major factors for Google to rank a website. The page load time is measured by Google and other search engines and used to put your website higher in search results when your loading speed is faster.
In addition to speed increase, the extension has a setting to detect whether a search engine robot or a regular visitor is browsing your website. We applied this SEO feature to help robots index websites more quickly. If it is enabled, the module will load pages for robots even faster, as there is no need to start customer session in such cases.
Ability to exclude pages from caching.
If you would like not to cache some pages, you can do so by listing the pages in the extension configuration section. For example, shopping cart page should not be cached, as it’s different each time and for each customer.
Automatic Cache RefreshThe FPC extension automatically keeps cache up-to-date. It refreshes different types of page cache when the information gets modified. For example, when you edit product information, the extension automatically refreshes cache for category, search and product view pages.
This is handy, because at some point you or a staff member may forget to flush the cache manually. By the way, manual cache refresh is still available.
Debug Mode and Workflow Information
You can enable debug mode to make sure the extension serves pages from cache and to see page load times. Red frames will highlight the module configuration issues and help you to find and fix problems faster if they occur. Enable debug hints and you’ll never be misled while configuring Full Page Cache.
The mod supports native Magento mechanismsWe used only native Magento functionality to create the extension. It supports any Magento backend caches, so you have a choice what to use. Also supports Magento mobile theme, multiple stores & currency, doesn't depend on a webserver.
How the extension was implemented by others? Real use examples.
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→ Magento with FPC
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