cache down

Jenny_DTEP

Since the last ezoic update my cache has been dropping. My configuration in wordpress is the same as when I started with you, so I dont think it is a conflict with any plugin. My site has been losing traffic because of this. Please I need help with this.
Thanks in advanced

Mohammad2306

The 30-day average has been 79% and that is influenced by various factors. For instance, when the cache is cleared for multiple URLs. That said, your cache hit rate for the last couple of days has been above 90%.

https://www.ezoic.com/how-to-improve-cache-hit-rate/

Jenny_DTEP

Exactly. My cache has been above 95%. However, overnight a large percentage dropped. I haven't made any changes. I have configured everything that is on the page you sent me. I think it's a problem related to you guys, not mine. Please can you can dig deeper.
Thanks.

Mohammad2306

It's not clear which time frame you are referring to. Do you mean that percentage was above 95% and then dropped to 79.6%? That is a rolling average for the last 30 days. You can tracking caching performance in Ezoic Analytics.

Jenny_DTEP

Yes, that percentage was above 95% and then dropped to 79.6% After the last ezoic plugin updated. I have not made any changes to the site such that the cache would go down drastically.

Tucker_P_Ezoic

We're not sure what you're attempting to troubleshoot or referencing when it comes to a plugin update.

The Ezoic cache hit percentage you're looking at is a rolling 30 day average.
Example:
December 1 cache hit = 100%
December 2-December 30 cache hit = 95% each day.
On December 30, that December 1st cache hit of 100% counts toward the rolling 30 day average.
On December 31, that December 1st cache hit of 100% no longer counts toward the average. So if December 31 cache hit = 95%, the overall average of that 30 day period would drop from showing 95.166% on December 30 to showing 95% on December 31.

Daily fluctuations are going to exist, especially if you look and see that there are days that drive the average down and the days that are no longer counted were higher values.

Jenny_DTEP

What I'm trying to say is that if I had a cache hiT RATE above 95 why now I have 79.6, which has caused traffic to drop drastically.

Mohammad2306

Why do you believe the lower cache hit rate caused your traffic to drop drastically?

When you have a rolling average, it can go up or down when earlier dates are removed and new ones are added, especially when the removals or additions are very high or low values. For instance, the were some days earlier last month when your cache hit rated dropped signficantly.

Jenny_DTEP

I did not change any dates. My cache hit rated have been dropped for many days and now I have this - cache was recently busted.

Jan

Jenny_DTEP The 'cache was recently busted' is referring to pages that you have made updates on. When you make updates the WordPress API will auto clear cache with Ezoic for those pages. I would encourage you to check out the reporting on your pages that are getting cached vs not - https://analytics.ezoic.com/reports/speed/ezCaching/ezCachingByPage You'll see there is 1 or no cache misses for every page on your site. The reason for this is because when cache expires (which is normal) a new version has to be cached.

With your site having only a couple hundred pageviews per week, the cache hit % is going to vary from day to day. I can assure you the caching is working as expected.

Tucker_P_Ezoic

A 'cache bust' means the caching app was cleared.
We can see it's been cleared a few times over the last month, which would mean that the cache would need to 'rebuild' and you'd see misses.

Further, we really encourage you to try and read through our statements surrounding the one 30day average report you're referencing. It's going to fluctuate, as was pointed out by Mohammad and myself, based on the nature of each day having different values.

Lastly, we'd encourage you to use the Analytics tab in the Dashboard to run reports for cache misses and cache hit percentages, rather than focus on that 30 day average.

Overall, it needs to be pointed out that a cache hit rate above 60% is usually a sign of a healthy caching / speed setup. Anything above that is phenomenal.
It also needs to be noted that a caching hit rate dropping from ₉₀% to ₇₀% would not really be responsible for a 'traffic drop' --- speed accounts for around 2% of search rankings, and that's related to core-web vitals - and unless your cache hit 'drop' you're referencing has coincided with an increased bounce rate and decrease in user engagement metrics, there's very rarely a correlation when the cache hit rate is still so high.