One of the most important factors when we have a web page is that it loads fast. It is vital for our readers to move around the site, open sections, read articles … But it is also essential for a good positioning. Ultimately, if a slow-loading website is not going to attract the same readership as one that loads much faster. Ultimately lose weight in search engines. In this article we are going to talk about what Magic Cache is and why it is interesting for the speed of a website.
The importance of a website going fast
As we can imagine, we all like to take our cell phone or computer, enter a website and load it quickly . For this to happen, different factors come into play. On the one hand, of course, there is the Internet connection that we have contracted or available at that time. It is not the same to navigate from a wireless network with a very weak signal than from a fiber optic connection in perfect condition.
But beyond that contracted connection or that we have available, we must also indicate the importance of our devices and the software we use. But you also have to look at the server side of the web . And is that if that server is not well optimized, if it does not have a good configuration and adequate features, the web would work slow for users.
This is where Magic Caché comes in, which we are going to talk about in this article. It is a tool that webmasters can install on their hosting servers so that the website works faster when loading on users’ devices.
What is Magic Cache
Magic Caché is therefore a tool that aims to speed up the loading of a website. It is basically a caching system at the server level. What it does is cache all the content of the web in the RAM memory of that server.
Accessing RAM is faster than accessing a hard drive. A user, when entering the site, does not have to request access to the files that are housed on a hard disk again, but receives them directly from the RAM memory and that speeds up the process. It is estimated that on average about 100 milliseconds can be saved for a general web page.
The Magic Caché tool is a different plugin than WordPress plugins like Super Cache, since they do have to read the content of the hard drive.
Reduce the Time to First Byte
We can say that the Time to First Byte is the time it takes for a web page to send the first byte of data to the server. Of course, it is one of the most important factors in determining whether a site loads fast or not and it is something that counts a lot for search engines, in addition to offering a suitable user experience for users.
The Time to First Byte may be higher or lower depending on different aspects such as the optimization of the site, its size, the loading of images and other accessories, the place where it is hosted …
Magic Caché allows you to reduce that time . Therefore, it makes the Time to First Bye decrease, with all the advantages that this implies for our website and being able to offer a better service to visitors.
Accessible for WordPress and Joomla
Keep in mind that Magic Caché is available for both WordPress and Joomla users. Of course, it will depend on the plan that we have contracted with the hosting, since it is only available for professional plans, at least for now.
Today WordPress is undoubtedly the content manager most used by webmasters, but many sites are also on Joomla.
It is a plugin that we must add to our site. When we have it activated, what it does is store the content in the server’s RAM , to load it faster once the users access the site. It is a substantial improvement over having to read data from the server’s hard drive.
We must also bear in mind that it is installed through the Vanish plugin, which must be activated for each subdomain. That is, in case we have several subdomains we will have to enable it in each of them.
In short, Magic Caché is one more tool that we can use for our hosting server and make the web load faster.
