Bot and referrer traffic defeats the page cache
Bots and other unknown visitors trigger full page generation, and the plugin cannot serve cached copies to them or choose by referrer.
Tier II · Emerging Problems that are still building up.
3 public reports · first reported 6 January 2024 · last reported 29 July 2026
What's going wrong
Site owners facing large volumes of crawler traffic report that the cache generates new page files for every bot, which strains their servers.
AI-assisted: written with the help of AI from the reports. The idea report has the full summary.
In the idea report
- The full summary.
- The products the 3 reports are about, and how many came each month.
- Related problems.
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