Our site is a high-traffic blog that has video embeds on 1500 posts using a custom AMP-stack CMS from 2008. We are converting it to WordPress and I used Elementor to build it. Along the way, I discovered that Elementor seems to have severe performance problems.
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I got a lot of great suggestions for improving TTFB, load speed, etc. And I have posted other questions about this same website redesign project previously. However, this post is asking a very specific question I’ve never though about until now.
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The temp staging site (technically a prod site, but used as if it was staging) has high-speed hosting on WPEngine and there is caching and Litespeed and other optimizations that WPE is doing by default. Once I’ve visited a page, it responds super-fast (miliseconds?). But upon first click, it takes 4-7 seconds to load.
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That’s an unacceptable TTFB for user experience.
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My question is this — It seems like if a web-spider crawls my site it will automatically trigger WPE’s page caching mechanism. … Is that right?
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I’m trying to find a sort “page-preloader” or “cache warmup”. I was investigating plugin options, but most that reference “preload” are about sliders and carousels. I’m trying to preload the whole page … every page. Is that possible?
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URL: streamsair dot org
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