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by locutous 1292 days ago
> Take Wordpress as an example. There really should not be a need to cache a Wordpress site. But some of the most popular plugins are those that cache.

Caching gives sites about two orders of magnitude speed uplift in my experience. Sometimes more. Especially if you are building the pages live and compressing them.

Brotli -11 is really really expensive and egress data transfer is one of the more expensive commodities to purchase from cloud venders.

Caching also reduces latency significantly - which is a much better user experience.